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...their faces very well--only their guns sticking into the doorway. I watched them shoot my grandfather, first in the chest and then in the head. Then they killed my granny." She claims the troops started firing toward the corner of the room where she and her younger brother Abdul Rahman, 8, were hiding; the other adults shielded the children from the bullets but died in the process. Eman says her leg was hit by a piece of metal and Abdul Rahman was shot near his shoulder. "We were lying there, bleeding, and it hurt so much. Afterward, some Iraqi...
...Iran's National Security Council head, Ali Larijani, said Thursday that Iran had agreed to talk in response to a plea by its most powerful ally in Baghdad, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the largest party in the Shi'ite bloc. Hakim, caught in the maelstrom of his country's rising sectarian tension, certainly has an interest in achieving a measure of accord between his longtime backers in Tehran and the U.S.; he knows better than most that the survival of the political system which has handed him so much power still depends on the U.S. military presence...
...says Lt Col Skip Johnson commander of the 187 Battallion, 3rd Combat Brigade of the 101st Airborne. "They have the lead," he said to reporters at the second stop of the tour. But by Friday afternoon, the major targets seemed to have slipped through their fingers. Iraqi Army General Abdul Jabar says that Samarra-based insurgent leader Hamad el Taki of Mohammad?s Army was thought to be in the area, and Iraqi intelligence officers were still working to compare known voice recordings and photographs with the prisoners in custody...
...horrified elders watched, Greene's comrades shot dead the assailant--later identified as Abdul Karim, a villager thought to be in his late teens or early 20s--then beat a hasty retreat under the crackle of gunfire. Within hours, the wounded Greene had been airlifted to the U.S. Army hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, where doctors reported late last week that he was in stable but serious condition. He faces "a very long and protracted recovery," says Dr. Catherine Gray, a Canadian Forces medic in Germany...
...think that the effort to choose a prime minister that would be broadly acceptable is moving based on a constitutionally mandated process. He won the nomination of the biggest bloc, the UIA. It was 64 votes for him out of 130 and 63 for Adel Abdul Mehdi. And there was a discussion among the other elements about their response to this nomination. There were some issues with regard to the response of [Jaafari's] government immediately in the aftermath of Samarra, where some people thought that a curfew should have been imposed immediately while the government took more than...