Word: iraqi
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...Thursday and Brigadier General Saad Ali Harbia's phone rings - not his regular mobile, but the new hotline that the Iraqi police force in Amara, 185 miles southeast of Baghdad, has set up to receive tips that could lead to arrests. The tip comes from a man who says he knows about a financier of Mahdi Army commanders in the region. Harbia's assistant takes down the information and says they will follow...
...Paralympic team is better than our Olympic team.' AHMED ABID HASSAN, an Iraqi wheelchair-fencing coach, on the country's high number of disabled athletes; many are war veterans...
...Asked whether Iran would oppose the government of Iraq if it signed a controversial security agreement enabling a long-term U.S. military presence in the country, Mottaki predicted that Iraqi leaders would never sign such a deal...
...houses, charred ambulances, and turned school buildings to rubble. In a dusty alley in sector 10, Badria Imrais, 54, stands in the pile of cement rubble and broken furniture that used to be her home. "I applied for compensation, but of course there is nothing. I go [to the Iraqi troops] but there is nothing," she told TIME. The American air strike, which brought down Imrais' house and part of a neighbor's, killing her son, came after a man fired on the helicopter with an AK-47, Saadi says. The U.S. military accused militia fighters of using civilian homes...
...Sadr City resident, Najim Kitam Kadem, head of a nine-person household that suffered two injuries during the fighting, says he is uneasy with the Iraqi troops now patrolling his streets. "The Iraqi army has done nothing good. They call you in the street, and if you don't hear them, they start jumping on you and they slap you in the face," he says...