Terrorists dress as women to escape capture
Recent incidents in which gunmen – some affiliated with al-Qaeda-- disguised themselves as women in order to avoid capture by security forces are an abuse of Iraqi society's respect for women, Iraqi officials and women's organisations say. Iraqi police captured three wanted men disguised as women on February 12th as they tried to pass throug…
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11 killed in 2 Iraq bombings
Two bomb blasts nearly 150 kilometers apart killed 11 people Monday night, officials said, as Iraq's death toll continued to climb in the second bloodiest month since U.S. troops withdrew late last year. Officials and experts fear the surge in violence may signal Iraq's potential descent into a failed state, despite its oil wealth, billions …
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US Muslims want NYPD Investigation
Thirty-two civil rights groups from around the country filed a complaint with the New York attorney general Friday over police documents that showed the New York Police Department recommending increased surveillance of Shiite mosques based solely on their religion. The complaint urged Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to investigate NYPD's surveillanc…
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Baghdad hit by deadly bombings
A wave of car bombings hit the Iraq capital on Tuesday, killing 14 people and wounding more than 70 as violence surges in the country amid an escalating political crisis a month after the U.S. military withdrawal. At least 170 people have died in attacks since the beginning of the year, many of them Shiite pilgrims attending religious commemorations. The l…
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Iraq Turns Justice Into Script
The cameras were rolling and the reporters were ready inside the auditorium, so the Iraqi police officer gave the signal: Bring in the prisoners. In they shuffled, 21 men accused of terrorism and murder, hands shackled, eyes tracing the floor. This was no day in court. Today, they were lined up to meet the press. “Lift up your faces,” a police officer orde…
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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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