Archive for April 20th, 2008
Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Iraq's radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said on Saturday that he would give the government one more chance to take "path of peace," threatening to declare war if the government continues cracking down on his Mahdi Army militia.
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
The Iranian ambassador to Iraq Saturday criticized the U.S. military operations in Baghdad's main Shiite bastion of Sadr City which killed many civilians.
"We criticize the pounding of cities and the siege of people, which will agg ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbaswill fly to Tunisia on Sunday for a two-day visit at the invitation of Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, the official TAP news agency said on Saturday.
"At the invitation of President Zin ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Four members of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) were killed and three others wounded in an Israeli airstrike on northern Gaza Strip late on Saturday, witnesses and medics said.
Mo'aweya Hassanein, chief of emergency and amb ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
U.S. and Iraqi troops are building concrete walls through Baghdad's Shiite bastion of Sadr City in an attempt to prevent militias from firing mortars and rockets on the Green Zone, an Interior Ministry source said on Saturday.
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Israel undermines peace efforts by continuing building more settlements in West Bank and Jerusalemcity, Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Saturday.
Erekat said Israel has continued inviting bids for building settlements sinc ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Five militants of Islamic Hamas movement were killed on Saturday in a series of attacks in eastern and southern Gaza Strip, medical officials in Gaza said.
Hamas security sources said that a Hamas police officer was killed and thre ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Eight people were killed and 61 others injured in overnight clashes in Baghdad eastern neighborhood of Sadr City, an Interior Ministry source said on Saturday.
The clashes came after joint U.S. and Iraqi troops backed by aircraft co ...
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