DAILY WAR NEWS FOR THURSDAY, September 28, 2006
Today in Iraq
Iraqi police and hospital officials said a woman and two children were among five people killed in an air strike on a car on Thursday (...) Baghdad police found 60 bodies -- all showing signs of torture --dumped around the capital in a 24-hour period ending Thursday morning. Two Iraqi soldiers were killed and 10 others were injured in suicide car bombing in a part of Baghdad where American and Iraqi troops had just conducted a security sweep. The car slammed into a checkpoint in the northeastern neighborhood of Shaab, a neighborhood in northeastern Baghdad that had just been cleared by troops taking part in Operation Together Forward...
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At Checkpoints in Baghdad, Disguise Is a Lifesaving Ritual
Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post Foreign Service
Every time he drove, he feared this moment. Now, it was too late. As Omar Adil Ahmed neared the checkpoint, he recalled, he saw armed men dressed in black ordering passengers out of a minivan and checking their identity cards. Some were told to get back into the van. Others were taken to a Shiite mosque across the street. The gunmen clutched Glock pistols, normally used by the Iraqi police. Ahmed, 30, was a Sunni Muslim. And he was in Shaab, a volatile, Shiite Muslim-dominated neighborhood. Questions raced through his mind: Was the mosque a base for a Shiite militia? Were the men members of a Shiite death squad? So Ahmed set in motion a ritual that many Sunnis across a divided Baghdad now practice. He pushed in a cassette tape with Shiite religious songs and turned up the volume. He wrapped a piece of green cloth that he brought from the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, one of Shiite Islam's holiest sites, around his gearshift...
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Iraqi police and hospital officials said a woman and two children were among five people killed in an air strike on a car on Thursday (...) Baghdad police found 60 bodies -- all showing signs of torture --dumped around the capital in a 24-hour period ending Thursday morning. Two Iraqi soldiers were killed and 10 others were injured in suicide car bombing in a part of Baghdad where American and Iraqi troops had just conducted a security sweep. The car slammed into a checkpoint in the northeastern neighborhood of Shaab, a neighborhood in northeastern Baghdad that had just been cleared by troops taking part in Operation Together Forward...
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Welcome to your Liberation people of Iraq
Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post Foreign Service
Every time he drove, he feared this moment. Now, it was too late. As Omar Adil Ahmed neared the checkpoint, he recalled, he saw armed men dressed in black ordering passengers out of a minivan and checking their identity cards. Some were told to get back into the van. Others were taken to a Shiite mosque across the street. The gunmen clutched Glock pistols, normally used by the Iraqi police. Ahmed, 30, was a Sunni Muslim. And he was in Shaab, a volatile, Shiite Muslim-dominated neighborhood. Questions raced through his mind: Was the mosque a base for a Shiite militia? Were the men members of a Shiite death squad? So Ahmed set in motion a ritual that many Sunnis across a divided Baghdad now practice. He pushed in a cassette tape with Shiite religious songs and turned up the volume. He wrapped a piece of green cloth that he brought from the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, one of Shiite Islam's holiest sites, around his gearshift...
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