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...Since his father's diagnosis of lung cancer in May 2007, the younger al-Hakim has been in charge of the party's day-to-day activities. He has worked to create a "strategic alliance between Najaf and Washington." Najaf, about two hours south of Baghdad, is the holiest city for the world's Shi'ites, who make up 60% of Iraq's population...
...Baghdad New Violence, New Victims At least 95 people were killed and nearly 600 wounded in truck-bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital Aug. 19, one of the deadliest days since the U.S. military's withdrawal from urban areas. Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch reports that Iraqi militias have embarked on a campaign of violence and intimidation against homosexuals--torturing and murdering growing numbers of men suspected to be gay. Homosexuality is taboo in Iraq, making pinning down a body count nearly impossible. Human Rights Watch--which gathered its information from interviews with Iraqis, activists, journalists and doctors--estimates that through...
...Baghdad A Bloody August The chaos of Iraq's recent past has returned to parts of the country. Since Aug. 1, bombings have killed more than 150 people, many of them Shi'ites in Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul. The attacks represent the worst violence since U.S. forces withdrew from Iraq's cities on June 30 and mark the end of a period of declining bloodshed. So far, Shi'ites have resisted anti-Sunni reprisals...
...wired-up trucks that blew up and killed scores of people would have had to pass through checkpoints to get into the capital. How could they have gone undetected when they were loaded with water tanks full of chemicals and projectiles? One likely reason: they were assembled in Baghdad itself. Another detail enhanced the inside-job theories: the parking lot across from the Foreign Ministry, where the largest blast occured, is off limits to trucks. But security has been so lax that, just the afternoon before the attack, ordinary vehicles were not being inspected for explosives. (See pictures...
...days later, in what was supposed to be the quiet Friday before Ramadan, the ministers of the defense, interior and national security and the head of the Baghdad Security Command were angrily grilled during a special meeting called by the deputy speaker of parliament and the defense and security committee of the legislature. Parliament is technically in recess and on holiday until the end of Ramadan (Sept. 19); only two dozen legislators were on hand. But the session, which started at 10 a.m. and lasted past lunch and into the afternoon, was so contentious the deputy speaker asked parliament security...