Wameeth's Blog – August 2008 Archive (3)

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Niqash – Kholoud Ramzi (Baghdad) – 21 August 2008:



Sumaya will never forget the day when armed al-Qaeda men forced her to practice wearing an explosive vest under her clothes in preparation for a suicide attack on a local market she was supposed to carry out the following day.



Sumaya’s story began when her husband, Amjad al-Dulaimi, a former officer in the Iraqi army, joined al-Qaeda’s ranks after being recruited by former army colleagues.… Continue

Iraq and the U.S. pushed close to a deal Thursday setting a course for American combat troops to pull out of major Iraqi cities by next June, with a broader withdrawal from the long and costly war by 2011.



Subject to final approval by the top Iraqi leadership, the exit date for U.S. troops would be December 2011, although the Americans insist on linking that target to additional security and political progress.



President Bush has long resisted a timetable for pulling out,… Continue

Al-iraqi Al-hura Satellite TV channel had started a series of reports concerning the Iraqi Jews living in Israel , what is unique about these reports is that they are the first of their kind ,as no Arabic nor Iraqi station had refer to the subject of Iraqi Jews ever, the Iraqi Jews are one of the most sensitive topics in Iraq ,one of largest markets in Iraq in the center of Baghdad trade market is called the Jew market ,it was the center of all the trade in Iraq till the beginning of the… Continue