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ASSYRIA
We owe it to our forefathers who were massacred while defending our Land
and our Identity
*****
Let history record
that the Assyrian Genocides and massacres will not be forgotten
*****
Let history record
that the indigenous Assyrians have the right to live peacefully in their own lands and not as refugees under the mercy of their oppressors.
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10/08/06
10/02/06
Iraqi prime minister presents peace plan
10/01/06
Rubai’i reveals cause of curfew in Baghdad
09/30/06
30 Christian families receive threats to leave Mosul
Mosul - Iraq09/29/06
Saddam trial judge brother-in-law killed
Democrats want to "cut and run" from Iraq, Bush says
09/28/06
Quarter million Iraqis flee violence
09/27/06
Second attack in three days against a Chaldean church
26 September, 2006
IRAQU.S. troops kill 8 in raid, air strike on Iraq house
Police count 77 bodies found in Baghdad this week
09/24/06
Twin terrorist attacks on St. Mary’s Cathedral in Baghdad
Baghdad – Sunday09/21/06
IRAQ: Analysts say violence will continue to increase
09/20/06
Assyrian-Swedish journalist investigates the arrest of the Assyrian-Georgian General
09/18/06
Bombers and gunmen killed eight people in a tense city northeast of Baghdad
09/17/06
His Holiness Mar Khanania Dinkha IV of the Assyrian Church of the east Arrives in Iraq.09/16/06
Iraq considers a ring of trenches around Baghdad
Iraq calls for calm after Pope's remarks
09/15/06
Fears for ancient treasures with Shia radical in charge
IRAQ: Armed conflict depriving youth of education, report says
09/14/06
Sharp drop in dollar demand at Iraqi Central bank auction
Provinces law timing not suitable-Iraqi slate
09/13/06
In Flash of Chaos, a Glimpse Into Iraq's Woes
09/12/06
65 tortured bodies found around Baghdad
09/11/06
Woman of the year, Rosie Malek Yonan
09/09/06
09/08/06
Eight killed as Iraq Shi'ites converge on festival
Iraq: A Civil War We Can Still Win
09/07/06
Tempers fray as Iraqi lawmakers discuss federalism
Iraq deaths multiply in new August count
09/06/06
Turkey rejects EU report and says it lacks objectivity
Speaker warns Iraq has months to avert collapse
09/05/06
Iraqis extend state of emergency a month
40 Bodies, Many Blindfolded, Are Found in Baghdad; 1980’s Execution Site Is Also Uncovered
09/04/06
09/02/06
33 bodies found scattered across Baghdad
Pentagon: Conditions exist for civil war in Iraq
09/01/06
An explosion in an Assyrian home in Midyat
Warning of long Baghdad struggle
Blasts Kill at Least 72 in Baghdad
08/31/06
Series of attacks leaves 46 dead in Iraq
Bush: Iraq, terrorism policies keeping U.S. safe
Announcement on British handover of Iraqi province 'imminent'
Violence in Iraq Kills 60 As Market, Recruits Hit
08/30/06
General: Iraqi security needs 12-18 mos.
Iraqi Pipeline Blast Kills 50; Gonzales Consults in Capital
Militias will disarm as Iraqi forces gain muscle: US general
08/29/06
Iraqi forces regain control of city
Iraq strikes peace deal with militia as 155 killed
Progress made in curbing Iraq disorder
Iraqi Troops Battle Shiite Militiamen In Southern City
Dozens killed in Iraq oil blast
08/28/26
Iraqi ancient Assur city in danger of erosion
08/27/06
Iraqi Museum Sealed Against Looters
Kidnappers free captured Iraqi MP
08/26/06
Sunni hostage MP freed as tribal chiefs make peace pledge
Iraq militant group says holding Turkish hostage-Web
08/25/06
Assyrians protest for the release of a former retired Assyrian General in Georgia
Iraqis cautious over Baghdad security crackdown
Insurgents kill nine as Iraq violence rages
U.S. tanks shell Iraqi mosque after attack: military
08/24/06
Threatened teachers fleeing the country
3 U.S. soldiers among fatalities in Iraq
Iraqis used to cleaning up after carnage
08/23/06
Torkman, Arabs Demand International Observation To Poll On Kirkuk
Number of U.S. troops in Iraq climbs
Beefed up flour to tackle anaemia
08/22/06
Iraq-Displaced
Marked rise in number of displaced families in IraqBaghdad Journal: Why the U.S. Can't Stop the Killing
08/21/06
Three years after attack, UN soldiers on
Baghdad bustling again after lockdown
08/20/06
20 Shiite pilgrims shot to death in Iraq
Texting, ring tones all the rage in Iraq
Baghdad's Walls Are Closing In
08/19/06
7 Shiite pilgrims gunned down in Baghdad
Analysis: Frustration dogs Iraq politics
Bush: Iraq War keystone in terror fight
08/18/06
The Assyrian aspirations for justice
Assyrians Experience Slow Cultural Revival In Southeastern Turkey
A New Assyrian Tragedy Recorded By
(the Kurdish democratic experiment)
Samuel Huntington, enough prattling
The End of Christianity in Iraq
Remembering Mar Yousip Khnanisho
Photo Album of Mar Yousip Khnanisho
Iraq civilian toll spikes to nearly 6,000
The forgotten Christians of Mesopotamia
Kurds Block Assyrians, Shabaks From Police Force in North Iraq
A priest abducted in Mosul - Iraq
ANA- Translation and Media desk
October 09, 2006
Father Boulos Eskandar the parish priest of St. Aprim Church in Mosul was kidnapped in al-Sinaeeya area by an armed group and taken to an unknown area.
There has been no news about him till the moment of this news.
Arabic source: Ankawa.comTwo explosions near St. Mary’s Church in Baghdad
ANA- Translation and Media desk
October 08, 2006The first explosion occurred at 6: 30 a.m. but it didn’t cause any human casualties but there were material damages to the walls of the Church and parked cars.
The second explosion resulted in the death of a police officer, and wounding some bystanders. St. Mary’s of the Sacred Heart Church is located on Palestine Street.
Arabic source: Faddy Kamal Yousif, Ankawa.com
A car bomb in a Christian district in Baghdad
ANA- Translation and Media desk
October 04th, 2006Kamp Sara district in Baghdad was a scene to another horrific car bomb which resulted in the killing of 14 people and wounding others, among the dead is Yusuf Falah Zara who was killed as he was passing by going to his shop.
The victim was born in 1961, married and a father of two girls and a boy with the eldest being less than 14 years old. The victim’s body will be sent for burial in his home town of Alqosh.
The latest victim joins the scores of innocents who have been killed to date in Iraq.
May he rest in peace and may his family find consolation.ANA – Note: The district where the explosion took place is inhabited by a majority of Assyrians.
Sources: Nirgalgate.com
Ankawa.com30 Christian families receive threats to leave Mosul
Mosul - IraqANA- Translation and Media desk
September 30th, 2006An official source at the Nineveh joint co-ordination centre mentioned that 30 Christian families living in Mosul received threats of being in danger and were given 72 hours to leave. The source (asked to remain anonymous) mentioned that these threats came through cell phone text messages. The families had notified the co-ordination centre of these messages which had the same tone "to leave the city within 72 hours or be killed". He mentioned that the authorities began their investigation in order to determine those responsible for such threats.
Mosul has a Christian population of 150 thousand people and these families receive every now and then threats to leave the city which made hundreds of them to leave Mosul and Iraq.
The Christian families live in the districts of al-Nour, al-Sa'aa, al-Muthanna, and al-Arabi which are in Mosul's centre; they also inhabit the areas of Telkef, Telskuf, al-Hamadaniya, Bartilla, Ba'ashiqa, and the Plain of Nineveh outside the city.Note: ANA - The inhabitants of the cities referred to are Assyrians.
Arabic source: Aswat al Iraq (Voices of Iraq)
Ibrahim Zanoun
This time in Mosul
Another Church attack
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:47:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ashur Peyour
Subject: Another Church BombedSecond attack in three days against a Chaldean church
26 September, 2006
IRAQhttp://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=7321
Baghdad (AsiaNews) – The start of the month of Ramadan in Iraq was marked by violence but also by significant openness by al Sistani towards the Vatican. Yesterday, two churches, one in Baghdad and another in Mosul, were struck. Recently, the country has seen an escalation of attacks against Christians, thought by some to be the reaction of radical Muslims to the speech of the pope in Regensburg. However, religious leaders, among them al Sistani, have shown solidarity and understanding towards the Vatican. Moreover, the representative of the highest religious exponent of Iraqi Shiites has expressed the desire to be able to visit the Pope.Yesterday morning at 11.15am local time, armed men attacked the Chaldean Church of the Holy Spirit in Mosul, firing at least 80 shots on the building. “Thank God there was no Mass at the time,” one member of the community told AsiaNews, “so no one was killed or injured, there was just some damage done to the eastern part of the building and a few broken windows.”
The atmosphere in the city is very tense. Recently, Muslim militias threatened the Catholic bishop and priests that unless they publicly condemned the address of the pope at the University of Regensburg within 72 hours, Christians would be killed and churches burned down. In recent years, some churches, shrines and even the bishop’s house were the target of terrorist attacks. For fear of further attacks, the bishop had posters put up to say that “neither Iraqi Christians nor the pope want to destroy ties with Muslims”.
Defying the prevailing atmosphere of terror, last night, Chaldean Catholics left their homes to participate in Vespers Mass in the very church that had been attacked. “Our faith is a challenge to violence. The militias fear us because our faith is stronger than their bullets,” a Christian told AsiaNews.
Yesterday morning in Baghdad, two bombs went off outside the Assyrian Orthodox Church of St Mary in the central neighbourhood of Karrada. The attackers put a bomb under the parish priest’s car. The blast, that took place at 9.30am, drew many people, including some from the parish. Immediately afterwards another bomb went off close by, injuring many people and killing a watchman of the church.
Some think these bombs targeted Christians in the wake of the controversy surrounding the pope’s speech in Regensburg. But in recent days, Orthodox communities distanced themselves from the words of the pope, putting up posters outside their churches expressing their disagreement with him. Some Catholic figures said the attack on St Mary’s Church was much more likely a vendetta based on ethnic-religious motives: the Assyrian Orthodox Patriarch recently visited communities in Kurdistan and probably the bombs were meant to be a threat by Sunni or Shiite militias against such ties with Kurds.
The lecture of Benedict XVI in Regensburg was misunderstood by the media as being an attack on Islam. Although the pope explained the true meaning of his words several times over, bitter and threatening criticisms continue to come from many sectors of Islam. In Iraq, it is fundamentalist and political Muslim splinter groups that are reacting violently to the pope’s address. Recently, the Secretary of the Nunciature in Baghdad, Mgr Thomas Halim Abib, met religious representatives of Islam and offered them an Arabic translation of the words of the pope, so Muslim leaders would be able to understand the true meaning of what was said. Muslim religious leaders undertake the task of informing their communities. Mgr Thomas told AsiaNews that in these days, the official representative of the Grand Ayatollah al Sistani, the undisputed leader of Shiite Islam in Iraq, visited the Vatican Nunciature twice to express friendship and solidarity. The representative of al Sistani accepted the explanations rendered by the Nunciature and spread them among all Iraqi Shiite communities, expressing respect for the Holy See “that has always been close to the Iraqi people”. The representative of the grand ayatollah also said he wished to go to Rome to visit Pope Benedict XVI.
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=7321********
Twin terrorist attacks on St. Mary’s Cathedral in Baghdad
Baghdad – Sunday 24/09/2006ANA- Translation and Media desk
The St. Mary’s Cathedral of the Ancient Church of the East in al-Riyadh district was the scene of a double terrorist attack this morning, first a hand grenade was thrown and a few minutes later a car bomb exploded. At 10:00 a.m. as the faithful were leaving the Church following Sunday’s Mass, an explosive charge exploded under the care of Father Ezaria Warda which was parked near the main door (some eye witnesses mentioned that a hand grenade was thrown at the car from a passing by car) The first explosion resulted in some casualties which made people gather and a police patrol arrived at the scene, moments later a car which was parked on the other side of the narrow street exploded which caused the number of casualties to rise.
The losses so far in the Baghdad hospitals are:
1- One of the Church’s guards Joseph Eshoo was killed.
2- The second victim is a child whose identity isn’t known yet.
3- 17 wounded, 9 are of the faithful who belong to the church; two of them are in critical condition.
4- The leg of one of the wounded was amputated and the doctors were obliged to remove the eye of another victim, four citizens and four police officers were injured as well.
The Cathedral is the headquarters of H.H. Mar Addai II, the Church’s Patriarch as well as Fathers Ezaria Warda and Zaia Edwar but they weren’t hurt. The Cathedral is also a home for the Church’s magazine The Horizon. In addition to the human losses, the Cathedral was badly damaged, five cars were burnt, and others were damaged.
Ancient Church of the East/Information Section
Arabic source: Ankawa.com
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ANA- Translation and Media deskThe killing of an Assyrian police officer in Mosul
September 21, 2006
The Assyrian police officer Ziad Waadallah Jamil was assassinated in Mosul in the area of al-Sa’aa. The victim worked for the Nineveh police force and he was attacked by unknown assailants as he was leaving home to go to work. The martyred police officer was born in Mosul in 1981 and he was single.
This latest assassination is one of a series of criminal acts against the Iraqi police officers in Mosul, Baghdad and other Iraqi cities which have become scenes for continuous violence and killings.Arabic source: Nirgalgate.com
September 16, 2006
Second Assyrian Christian Killed in Retaliation for Pope's Remarks
Baghdad (AINA) -- Sources at Baghdad's Yarmouk Hospital announced on Saturday the death of a second Assyrian Christian who fell victim to multiple stab wounds at the Assyrian market in the Doura District. His murder comes a day after the attack on Syriac Catholic Church in the Ashar district of central Basra where another man was murdered.
Christian Leaders in Iraq have asked their parishioners to be extremely cautious and not to leave their homes as a new group called the young Brigades of Fundamental Islam ' has distributed papers announcing the slaying of all Iraqi Christians in three days if the Pope does not Apologize.
According to the insurgency-loyal news website, islammemo.cc, the bishop of the Syriac Catholic Church has also taken his plea to the central government of Iraq and the coalition forces in hopes that they intervene and offer protection to the native Christians.
September 16, 2006
Two Assyrians Killed in Separate Terrorist Attacks
September 09, 2006
Mr. Salem Qeryo Soulaqa (41) was killed on 9/9/2006 when a bomb exploded in Baghdad near the Mansour Mosque. His ten year old son who was with him at the time was injured and is currently lying in the hospital in critical condition. Salem Qeryo Soulaqa, from Kirkuk, was born in 1965. He is survived by his wife and three children.
Mr. Khalil Oraha Aram (19) of Batnaya was killed when a car bomb exploded in the Za’faraniya district. He was born in 1987 in Batnaya which is 20 km north of Mosul.
Our deepest condolences to the Soulaqa family and Aram family for their loss.
Source:Beth Suryoyo Assyrian (Othuroyo) Forum
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An Assyrian kidnapped in Basra
ANA-Translation and Media desk
September 09, 2006Jalal al-Najjar (Abu Ala’a) was kidnapped by an organized armed gang as he was heading to his work. The gang is specialized in abducting people with money in the city.
Mr. al-Najjar is the owner of a carpentry factory in the industrial area five Km away from the city.
The kidnappers demanded the family to pay a ransom of $150.000 dollars to spare his life, but it’s been understood that the family doesn’t have that kind of money. It’s been a week since the abduction and as of the moment the case remains unsolved and without a decisive response from the local authorities who are supposed to capture the offenders.Arabic source: Ankawa.com
Mohammad Jawad Al-dakhiliTranslation note: Hundreds of Assyrian families were forced to leave Basra as the security situation worsened with the increase in violence and crimes.
Over the years some Assyrians adopted Arabic or other names in order to blend with the majority.------------
Two explosions in front of al-Za’afaraniya Church in Baghdad
ANA-Translation and Media deskSeptember 08, 2006
Baghdad- Two explosives which were hidden in a bag went off in front of al-Za’afaraniya Church injuring the guards who were taken to the hospital, the explosion also caused damage to the church walls.
Arabic source: Ankawa.com
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Southfield interpreter dies in Iraq bombing
Jerry Wolffe
The Oakland press
September 06, 2006A 23-year-old Southfield man who served as an interpreter with U.S. military forces in Iraq was killed in a suicide car bombing at a checkpoint near Ramadi, his family said Tuesday. Saher Georges* died Aug. 29 during his second tour of duty as an interpreter.
May he rest in peace and may his family find comfort and consolation.* The piece doesn’t mention that the victim was an Assyrian
An Assyrian victim of an explosion
ANA- Translation and Media desk
September 07, 2006The victim Manaf Hosni Yousif an engineer was killed in Baghdad on August 31st as he was returning home from work. The victim was born in the Assyrian village of Bersive (Bersawa) North of Iraq in 1978.
May he rest in peace and may his family find comfort and consolation.
Arabic source: Ankawa.comAn Assyrian assassinated in Baghdad
ANA-Translation and Media deskSeptember 05th, 2006
Baghdad-IraqThe victim Sabah Alton Hermiz Homa was assassinated by a terrorist group.
The latest victim was from the Assyrian village of Karemlash in the North of Iraq.
May he rest in peace and may his family find comfort and consolation.Arabic source: Ankawa.com
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An explosion in an Assyrian home in Midyat
ANA-Translation and Media desk
Tor Abdin - Turkey
September 01st, 2006On August 30th, 2006 an unknown man threw a grenade on the house of Mr. Gabro Shiven in Midyat, south-eastern Turkey, fortunately the family wasn’t home at the time.
In a letter sent by Mr. Simon Barmano President of the Assyrian Clubs Federation in Sweden and according to reliable sources a police officer named Etac Tivik is behind what happened and that Tivik has been responsible for other such operations and pressure tactics aimed at forcing the Assyrians in the area to leave. Mr. Barmano mentioned in his letter another incident which had taken place two days earlier, when Mr. Yusuf Aye and Issa Dugan were assaulted and beaten up by some Muslim extremists in the centre of Midyat, when an individual from the Jamo family tried to blackmail Mr. Dugan from Australia into giving him $7000 dollars and when he refused, 15-20 people surrounded the two men and started to beat them up in front of some by standers who didn’t dare to save them.In 2002 the Paulos and Afram Hidari family members were severely beaten up near the city hall of Midyat when they tried to submit a complaint against the Jamo family who had occupied their property and lands, the Hidari family were given the choice of either leaving or being killed.
On July 23rd, 2005, Mr. Zaki Oun a Swedish Assyrian and his son David were shot in the legs by Kehraman Yildiz a senior member in the ruling Turkish party AKP.
The president of the Assyrian Clubs Federation in Sweden adds in his letter that no one was neither arrested nor subjected to any legal procedures, which gives the green light to the aggressors to commit more horrible actions enabling them to reach their goals of controlling the Assyrian lands and properties in the region.
There are already other villages in Tor Abdin which have been confiscated by the Turkish authorities and Muslim extremists who tend to use violence against those who try to return the properties to their rightful ownersMr. Barmano concludes his letter by reminding the European States that while Turkey is trying to negotiate its way into the European Union, the conditions of the Assyrians and other Christians in Turkey haven’t improved, and that Turkey’s empty promises throughout its history make every one aware of the danger that Turkey is following its old path.
It is worth noting that many of the Assyrians who had fled Turkey to Europe during the 1960’s and 1970’s because of persecution have begun to return to their towns and villages but they are faced with many dangers specially in what concerns security.
Arabic source: Ankawa.com
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Iskandar BiqashaGhassan Ezzat Roufa Haido another Assyrian victim
ANA – Translation and Media desk
August 21st, 2006
On August 17th, 2006 some cowards shot the victim just outside the capital Baghdad and in broad day light only because he worked for the oil company.
The victim was born in Baghdad in 1968 and was always afraid that he would be killed because of his job; that’s why he was hesitant to get married.
It’s to be noted that four of his colleagues were killed with him in the same brutal, ugly and barbaric manner.
May he rest in peace and may his grieving family be consoled.Source: Ankawa.com
Assyrians threatened yet again following the Gondkosa murder
August 16, 2006
Nohadra – IraqFrom: Sami Zaia
Source: Nirgalgate.comOn August 15th, 2006 a group of Assyrians were threatened with guns by some Kurds near the outskirts of Bamarni to the north-east of Sarsink.
One of the Assyrians who were threatened with a 9mm hand gun mentioned that a group of four Kurds obstructed the path of some Assyrian families on their way back from a picnic in Dokri region where they were celebrating the commemoration of St. Mary. The incident escalated to killing threats because of an earlier skirmish with the same group of Kurds who were intoxicated and tried to harass the women.
Another man said:” We were surprised with four persons holding guns obstructing our way, and we knew immediately that they were the same individuals with whom we had a skirmish earlier. They pulled one of the young men out of the car and put the gun to his head threatening to kill him; that’s when we intervened to prevent them from killing him, then we called the police who came and arrested them, but we don’t know what sort of procedure will be taken against them”.ANA – Translation and Media desk
----------------------A priest abducted in Dora - Baghdad
ANA- Translation and Media desk
Baghdad-Dora- August 15, 2006
A group of terrorists abducted a priest in the city of Dora, in the Asia neighborhood. A phone call by a local source to one of our reporters had mentioned that Father Siroup who serves in the Church of Asia was abducted around 7:15 today.It’s worth mentioning that the city of Dora is overwhelmed at present by sectarian gangs. These same gangs had bombed several Churches, kidnapped and killed many of our Christian brothers, causing hundreds of them to flee Dora.
ANA – The city of Dora is the home for an Assyrian majority in Baghdad.
Source: Buratha News Agency
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ANA- Translation and Media desk
Mosul- August 12, 2006This after noon, Saturday, August 12, 2006 two of our young men were killed by terrorists in their store in the area of al-Masaref (the banks) in Mosul. The two victims were shot in cold blood before eye witnesses; they were identified as brothers Akram Aprim Shleemon and Aziz Aprim Shleemon. The killers then stole the victims’ car and fled. The martyrs worked in the carpentry and furniture business, they were known for their good morals by every one who knew them.
May their souls rest in heavenly peace and may those killers face the fate which is waiting for them in history's muck-heap.Source: Ankawa.com
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Akhiqar Korkis Audish Killed by a kurdish Thug
On the 8th of August, at around 8 pm, Akhiqar Korkis Audisho born 1962, resident of the village Cossa in Assyria (northern Iraq) under fire by a Kurdish thug named Cherdl Tahir Khalid from the village of residence Akmali with two other members of the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP), while tending his herd.
The martyr is married and father of three daughters. He was pronounced dead, at 3:00 am on this day after surgery at Nohdra City Hospital (Dohuk).
May God bless the soul of our martyr and rest him in peace.
Original Source: AGC
ANA- Translation and Media Desk
August 08, 2006
----------------An Assyrian merchant killed in Baghdad
August 08, 2006The body of Bassam Shimon Hakim, 33 years old was found two days ago in the institute of Forensic Medicine (Maa’had al-Tibb al- Adli). Hakim was shot to death a week after he was abducted by an armed group in front of his liquor stores; the victim was a well known merchant for selling liquor in Baghdad.
The relatives of the deceased had paid a ransom of $30000 U.S. in addition to a BMW car estimated at $10000 U.S. which was parked near his stores when he was abducted.
The victim’s relatives were awaiting his release but the kidnappers left him a dead body in one of Baghdad’s streets to be found by the police where he was placed at the institute of Forensic Medicine. The victim was from Alqosh*, 48 km north of Mosul and a father of two little children, the oldest being three years old.*Alqosh follows the district of Telkef in the governorate of Nineveh.
Source: Ankawa.com
ANA – Translation and Media desk
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Zakho – Assyria/ North Iraq
Turkish incursion reported inside Iraqi bordersZakho, July 27, Some 200 Turkish soldiers accompanied by village rangers crossed the borders into north Iraq and encroached for two kilometers before pulling back inside the Turkish side of the borders, a military source in Zakho said on Thursday.The intruding force penetrated the area of Hork near Kesta border village in Nohadra governorate “At 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday we were informed that about 200 Turkish soldiers and some village rangers encroached for two kilometers inside the borders. Several hours later, they withdrew to the Turkish borders,” reason for the incursion.Meanwhile, eyewitnesses said the Turkish artillery shelled last night the areas of Kely, Senat, Zaweta, Kely Besagha, Kloc and Alansh in Zakho.The shelling did cause casualties but it started fires in the woodsANA – Translation and Media Desk.-----------------------------
A car bomb near a church in Mosul
According to a security source, a car bomb which was defused was meant to explode today at noon near a Church in Mosul.
The Director of the police command operations in the Nineveh Governorate mentioned to the Voices of Iraq independent News Agency, that the car was booby-trapped and parked near the church of Mar Girgis [St. George],located in the al-Arabi district north-east of the city.
The source explained that the information reached the police command post "about a suspicious car in the above mentioned area, upon confirming information a team proceeded to diffuse the car bomb".
The source pointed out that the group which diffused the car bomb is made up of a joint team of American forces and the joint co-ordination centre.
ANA – Translation DeskOriginal source in Arabic
*ANA- Translation Desk
July 24, 2006
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