Suicide bomber kills own family
A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged belt at a gathering of his own family in western Iraq, killing his pro-government cousin and six other relatives, officials said Saturday. The blast targeting a leader in the Sahwa militias in the city of Ramadi is a reminder of how extremism still divides Iraq's Sunni Muslim minority, with some wo…
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An Olympian Inspiration
I was recently inspired by a Daily Mail article, which detailed how a 7/7 bomb blast survivor, who lost her legs in one of the London tube blasts has defied the odds, to represent Great Britain as a member of the volleyball team at the 2012 paralympics. Martine Wright, 39, was on a Circle Line Tube train when Al-Qaeda terrorist Shehzad Tanweer deton…
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Carnage in Iraq
In the most brutal attack in a new surge of violence across Iraq, a suicide bomber detonated himself Tuesday, Jan. 18, in a crowd of some 300 police applicants in the northern city of Tikrit, killing at least 50 and wounding as many as 150 others, according to local media. Reports from the scene describe pickups piled high with bodies, blood running down th…
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Iran minister meets Iraq clerics
Iran's foreign minister courted top clerics in Najaf, the Iraqi religious heartland, on Thursday, the second day of a visit to Iraq aimed at boosting ties between the Shiite-majority neighbours. "I came carrying a letter from the Iranian leadership to the religious authorities in Najaf," Ali Akbar Salehi told a news conference in the central I…
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Tariq Aziz imminent execution?
As the US and UK accuse Russia of a "politically motivated sentence" and the Pope accuses China of lack of freedom for Christians, former Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Tariq Aziz, sits in Iraq awaiting execution. A Christian, victim of a politically motivated trial, he knows the truth of Western duplicity regarding Iraq. The silence …
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Bombs, bullets and bulletins
They arrive nearly every day, these sad, strange e-mails from Iraq. They are unsentimental and hard, gathered by stringers scattered across a country at war. They're often tough to follow, terse poems with broken rhythms and words landing in wrong places. But there's an unadorned power that speaks to things beyond style and grammar. "An IP sour…
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My husband is being tortured in Baghdad jail
A woman from north-west London has asked David Cameron to help her husband who she claims has suffered months of torture in an Iraqi prison.Rabiha al-Qassab, 63, who lives in Kilburn, said she worries “every minute of every day” about her husband Ramzi Shehab Ahmad, 68, who is being held without trial in Baghdad. She claims that he has been suffocated, give…
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