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Hilla, Mar 26, (VOI)- More than 60 gunmen were killed on Wednesday evening as U.S. choppers fired rockets against buildings used by gunmen in central Hilla, 100 km south of Baghdad, Iraqi security source said. "U.S. copters bombed sites used by gunmen in Hilla's neighborhoods of al-Askari, Ahmed Nader and Muhaizem, killing more than 60 militants and destroying some houses," the source, who requested anonymity, told Aswat al-Iraq- Voices of Iraq- (VOI). From his part, Abdellatif Rayan, an MNF-Iraq media adviser told VOI that the operation was carried out as Iraqi forces requested an air support while clashing with gunmen...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 5/28/07 - Sadr City, Baghdad, Hilla, Fallujah, Basra, Najaf, Nusseirat, al Zaitun, Gaza Strip BREAKING: Sadr City and North of Baghdad - US, UK, and Iraqi forces free scores of prisoners of al-Qaeda. BREAKING: Hilla - Iraqi soldiers raid terrorists BREAKING: Gulf - USS John C. Stennis and USS Nimitz BREAKING: Fallujah - Valiant US Marines and Iraqis patrol and secure the terrorist city BREAKING: Sadr City and Basra - After weeks of terrorism precision airstrikes and shootouts remove key terrorists BREAKING: Najaf and Basra - Terrorists get help from the MSM...

US FORCES SAY CAPTURE TOP AIDE TO IRAQI CLERIC SADR OVER KIDNAPPING, KILLING OF FIVE U.S. SOLDIERS

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia (AP) - A chat with a Buddhist monk. An encounter with a gift horse named Montana. A peek inside a yurt, the traditional felt tent home. A word with Mongolian veterans of the war in Iraq. No outpost is too distant, no audience too small for U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, globe-trotting to bolster support for Iraq, Afghanistan and the wider fight against terrorism. The roaming Rumsfeld dropped in Saturday for an official visit with senior leaders of this once communist nation of about 2.7 million, home of the legendary horseman-warrior, Genghis Khan. Rumsfeld wound up...

Iraqi combat capability on the upswing Written by W. Thomas Smith Jr. Friday April 1, 2005 "It's going to be tougher than anything you've ever experienced," a U.S. Marine recruiter warns a young leatherneck hopeful. "You'll face down your fears, overcome terrifying obstacles, and at times function on little food and no sleep." Sounds severe, but everything is relative. Recruits hoping to earn the title, "Marine," expect training to be demanding. They also take for granted the enormous efforts made to ensure their safety during dangerous training, and – despite accidents and the occasional "bad seed" drill-instructor – no one...

Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 214 March 29, 2005 No.214 Iraqi-Jordanian Tension Over the Most Lethal Suicide Bombing in Iraq By Dr. Nimrod Raphaeli* Introduction Since the fall of the Saddam regime in April 2003, Iraq has been victimized by hundreds of acts of terrorism, most of it perpetrated by foreign terrorists who have crossed Iraq's porous borders. The most lethal terrorist act was carried out on February 28, 2005, by a suicide bomber who detonated a car bomb in the predominantly Shi'ite City of Hilla, sixty miles south of Baghdad. The bomb exploded in front of a health...

Since the fall of the Saddam regime in April 2003, Iraq has been victimized by hundreds of acts of terrorism, most of it perpetrated by foreign terrorists who have crossed Iraq's porous borders. The most lethal terrorist act was carried out on February 28, 2005, by a suicide bomber who detonated a car bomb in the predominantly Shi'ite City of Hilla, sixty miles south of Baghdad. The bomb exploded in front of a health office in a busy bazaar where new recruits to the police and armed forces were waiting to apply for health certificates, which are a prerequisite to...

AMMAN (AFP) - Jordanian authorities have arrested a journalist who wrote that a Jordanian national carried out the suicide bombing in Iraq last month that cost 118 lives, the official Petra news agency said. "Hadi Abdellatif al-Nsour of the Jordanian daily Al-Ghad was arrested because of his erroneous and fabricated article on the Jordanian Raed al-Banna who died in Iraq and in which he alleged that (Banna) carried out the attack in Hilla," interior ministry spokesman Faisal al-Qadi was quoted as saying. The February 28 suicide car bombing took place in the predominantly Shiite town of Hilla, south of Baghdad....

Attackers ambushed and killed two American contractors working for Blackwater Security Consulting south of the Iraqi capital, the US Embassy and security officials said today. Embassy spokesman Bob Callahan said the attack occurred yesterday on the main road to Hillah, south of Baghdad. He did not say exactly where. “I can confirm that two American employees of Blackwater Security were killed early yesterday afternoon on the road to Hillah when an IED exploded next to their vehicle, Callahan said. An IED is a military acronym for an improvised explosive devise, or homemade bomb used frequently by insurgents to attack...

Tuesday, March 01, 2005 Hi, Just a quick word: Almost all the important western and international capitals issued their condemnation and expressed their condolences and sympathies on the occasion of the carnage that took place in Hilla. Only the Arabs were quiet and nothing was heard from them. So, it seems that the blood of Iraqis does not concern them much, or worst still, perhaps they were secretly pleased and gratified at the event. Now, this is very serious. It is disturbing. Add to it that almost everybody in Iraq is firmly convinced that the perpetrators of suicide attacks in...

BAGHDAD, Iraq Mar 1, 2005 — More than 2,000 people demonstrated Tuesday at the site of a car bombing south of Baghdad that killed 125 people, chanting "No to terrorism!" An Internet statement purportedly by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's al-Qaida in Iraq group claimed responsibility the bombing. A French journalist abducted nearly two months ago, meanwhile, pleaded for help in a video that surfaced Tuesday, saying she was in failing health.

More than 2,000 people demonstrated Tuesday at the site of a car bombing south of Baghdad that killed 125 people, chanting "No to terrorism!" -SNIP-More than 2,000 people held the impromptu demonstration on front of the clinic, chanting "No to terrorism!" and "No to Baathism and Wahhabism!" Wahhabism is a reference to adherents of the strict form of Sunni Islam preached by Osama bin Laden, while the Baath party was the political organization that ran Iraq under Saddam Hussein. The demonstrators also demanded that interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi step down. Police prevented people from parking cars in front of...

HILLAH, Iraq — Thousands of mostly black-clad Iraqis protested Tuesday outside a medical clinic where a car bomber killed 125 people a day earlier, braving the threat of another attack as they waved clenched fists, condemned foreign fighters and chanted "No to terrorism!" Police prevented people from parking cars in front of the clinic or the hospital, where authorities blocked hospital gates with barbed wire to stave off hundreds of victims' relatives desperate for information on loved ones. The demonstration in this town 60 miles south of the capital came as the Shiite candidate for prime minister traveled north for...

BRUSSELS, Feb 28 (KUNA) -- Javier Solana, European Union High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, strongly condemned Monday the terrorist attack committed in Hilla, Iraq. "I strongly condemn the terrorist attack this morning in Hilla, where a massive car bomb killed over 100 people and wounded at least 130. I want first of all to express my sympathy and deepest condolences to the families of the victims," a statement by Solana said. "It is shocking and deeply regrettable that violence and terrorist attacks are still prevalent in Iraq now that the Iraqi people has taken the first...

HILLAH, Iraq - A suicide car bomber blasted a crowd of police and national guard recruits Monday as they gathered for physicals outside a medical clinic south of Baghdad, leaving at least 110 people dead and 133 injured — the single deadliest attack in the two-year insurgency. Torn limbs and other body parts littered the street outside the clinic in Hillah, a predominantly Shiite area about 60 miles south of Baghdad. Monday's blast outside the clinic was so powerful it nearly vaporized the suicide bomber's car, leaving only its engine partially intact. The injured were piled into pickup trucks and...

Toll soars after car bomb attack near Baghdad More than 100 civilians killed by suicide blast, officials sayBREAKING NEWS MSNBC News Services Updated: 5:46 a.m. ET Feb. 28, 2005HILLA, Iraq - A suicide car bomber drove into a crowd of people south of Baghdad and detonated his explosives on Monday, killing 105 people and wounded 130, police and witnesses said. advertisement "We finished now transporting the bodies from the site. There were 105 people dead and 130 wounded," doctor Mahmoud Abdul Ridah, an official from the town of Hilla's health directorate, told Reuters. "We've called on people to donate blood...

HILLA (Iraq) - Thirty-two people were killed and 45 others wounded in the attack with the booby-trapped car made Monday with Hilla, according to the director of the hospital of the city located at 100 km in the south of Baghdad. "the number of killed reached 32 and that of casualties 45", declared with the AFP Doctor Mohammed Dia, director of the principal hospital of the city, chief town of the province of Babylon. "All the rooms of the hospital, even those of the service of cardiology, are full with casualties", it added, specifying that ten of the casualties...

Ten died in an attack with the booby-trapped car with Hilla HILLA (Iraq) - Ten people were killed and 15 others wounded in an attack with the booby-trapped car Monday morning in Hilla, chief town of the province of Babylon, to 100 km in the south of Baghdad, announced the police force. "Ten people were killed and fifteen others wounded when a booby-trapped car exploded in the medium of a crowd of civils servant gathered for medical examinations in a center of care close to the seat of the municipality", indicated the lieutenant of police force Kazem Maamouri.

BAGHDAD, Oct 2 (AFP) - A former general in Saddam Hussein's armed forces was captured along with nine other people in counter-insurgency operations conducted by Polish, US and Iraqi troops in south-central Iraq on Saturday, the military said. "As a result of the operations, 10 suspects were detained, including a man who was a general in Saddam Husseins former army and is wanted by Iraqi police," the multinational force said in a statement, without identifying the general. Five of those detained were quickly released after questioning at the scene, it said. A cache of AK-47 rifles and ammunition was also...

"We underestimated the scale of what happened in Iraq at that time," he said. "So far we have discovered 262 mass graves, with tens of thousands of people. It's unbelievably shocking - truckloads, busloads of people buried."

WARSAW, Aug 14 (Reuters) - A group of about 20 Polish soldiers ended an overnight standoff with militants in Hilla, southern Iraq and returned safely to camp early on Saturday, the Polish military said. "The incident ended without a single shot fired and everyone is now safely back in base camp," Zdzislaw Gnatowski, spokesman for the General Staff in Warsaw, told Reuters. The troops ran into trouble on Friday after going to the aid of Iraqi policemen surrounded by about 250 people loyal to Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. They spent the night in a fortified building some 5 km...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 7/16/04 - Baghdad, Baqouba, Hilla, Samawa, Yazd, Tehran, Kabul, Mohmand tribal area BREAKING: Baghdad - American Heroes Practice and Receive Good will BREAKING: Baghdad - Thousands of Iraqis demand Saddam be executed BREAKING: Baghdad - Iraqi security forces killed 15 terrorists and arrest nine more BREAKING: Baqouba - Islamic AntiChristian Hate Crime and Terror BREAKING: Mohmand tribal area also from Hilla, Samawa, Yazd - the Zoroastrian temple, and Kabul - Women and children liberated by the USA QFN ==== QUAGMIRE-FREE NEWS Exclusive to FReerepublic PICTURES YOU MAY NEVER SEE IN THE MAINSTREAM...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 7/4/4 - Baghdad, Sadr City, Qandil mountains, Hilla, Qiqihar, Titan BREAKING: Baghdad - Justice Delivered BREAKING: Sadr City - Shiites demand execution of Saddam BREAKING: Qandil mountains - Kurds announce end of six-year cease-fire BREAKING: Hilla - Polish troops find cyclosarin in 17 Grad rockets BREAKING: Qiqihar- 17 chemical bombs that he unearthed BREAKING: Titan - America's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer QFN ==== QUAGMIRE-FREE NEWS PICTURES YOU MAY NEVER SEE IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA Happy Birthday America. ========= Baghdad ========= AT THE IRAQI TRIBUNAL -JUSTICE, AMERICAN-STYLE IS SERVED TO TYRANTS In...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - An explosion rocked the center of the predominantly Shiite Muslim city of Hilla late Saturday, killing 17 people and injuring about 40, U.S. and Polish military authorities said. The blast occurred at about 8:45 p.m. near the former Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) mosque, said Polish Lt. Col. Robert Strzelecki. The city, 60 miles south of the capital, Baghdad, falls under the responsibility of Polish troops serving together with American forces in Iraq (news - web sites). "We know that it was a strong explosion," Strzelecki said. "We know that there are Iraqi civilians killed and...

Breaking on CNN...17 dead..40 wounded.

The legacy of a mass murderer.A field outside Baghdad THE DEAD DON'T TALK in Iraq but their graves do. In northern Iraq, a grave was unearthed last July with several thousand bodies, mostly women and children. From the bullet holes in the top of the skulls, it was clear the deaths weren't natural. The victims had been shot from above while kneeling or after being forced into a mass grave. They had personal household items with them like baskets. They had their clothes on. These were clues that helped identify their hometown and led to the conclusion they'd been compelled...

Sometimes hope can be found in small gestures — particularly ideas or symbols that inspire others to believe that their dreams can become reality. That is what I saw earlier this year when I presented the Fatima Al-Zahra Center for Women's Rights and Democracy in Hilla, Iraq, with a photographic gallery of the eight women whom President Bush appointed to the U.S. Department of Labor, a first in America's history. The Iraqi women were astonished to learn that women composed half the top officials of a U.S. government agency. Perhaps it could happen in Iraq, they wondered out loud. That...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 2/26/04 - Al-Yaychi, Baghdad, Hilla, Samawa BREAKING: Al-Yaychi - Iraqis liberated by the USA BREAKING: Baghdad - Iraqis cheer Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld after being liberated by the USA. BREAKING: Samawa - Iraqis liberated by the USA ========= Al-Yaychi ========= In Al-Yaychi, 30 kms from Kirkuk, an American hero is welcomed by a liberated 10-year-old Iraqi wearing the traditional dress of Al-Yaychi village. ========= Baghdad ========= In Baghdad, Iraq, at the mosques. In Baghdad, Iraq, American heroes arewelcomed by liberated 10-year-old Iraqi children. In Baghdad, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and...

<p>HILLA, Iraq -- Just past a cold, cloudy midnight in March 1991, Abdelraheem Ali Moussa -- blindfolded, hands bound -- stumbled onboard a stolen Kuwaiti bus. With 30 men, women and children, he was driven to a field behind Mahaweel Republican Brick Factory, where everyone was shot. The others died. Moussa survived.</p>

HILLA, Iraq, Dec. 11 -- The demonstrators converged on the provincial governor's office on Sunday with banners, sleeping mats, cooking pots and a simple demand: Iskander Jawad Witwit should quit. After three days and nights of continuous protests, Witwit did just that. But the demonstrators have refused to budge. As soon as Witwit resigned, the local representative of the U.S. occupation authority appointed a former Iraqi air force officer as acting governor. To the protesters, that was unacceptable. The new governor, they insisted, should be chosen not by an American but by Iraqis -- through an election. "Yes, yes for...

By Valentinas Mite Some 440 troops from Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania are based in the Iraqi city of Hilla, south of Baghdad. The soldiers are relaxed and friendly, and on many days the mission feels more like a holiday in a hot climate than deployment in a war zone. There is no anti-coalition resistance in the town, where little love is lost for deposed President Saddam Hussein. The soldiers say their biggest challenges are coping with the heat and trying to understand local culture and traditions. Hilla, Iraq; 24 October 2003 (RFE/RL) -- A military convoy of Lithuanian and Polish...

  Up to 15,000 bodies found MASS GRAVE UNCOVERED The remains of 15,000 people killed by the regime of Saddam Hussein have been found in mass graves in central Iraq. The graves were discovered last week in the central city of Hilla, site of ancient Babylon, the Iraqi National Congress (INC) said. The bodies are thought to date back to the Shiite uprising that followed the US withdrawal from Iraq in 1991."In the last week, four sites have been discovered in Al-Hilla city alone, with approximately 15,000 bodies," said Entifadh Qanbar, a spokesman of the INC.'Collecting bones'"Citizens are excavating with great...

Red Cross horrified by number of dead civilians Canadian Press OTTAWA — Red Cross doctors who visited southern Iraq this week saw "incredible" levels of civilian casualties including a truckload of dismembered women and children, a spokesman said Thursday from Baghdad. Roland Huguenin, one of six International Red Cross workers in the Iraqi capital, said doctors were horrified by the casualties they found in the hospital in Hilla, about 160 kilometres south of Baghdad. "There has been an incredible number of casualties with very, very serious wounds in the region of Hilla," Huguenin said in a interview by satellite telephone....

Iraq Shows Casualties in Hospital HILLA, Iraq, April 2 - The boy was bewildered, perhaps 10 or 11, separated from his parents, lying on a hospital gurney. All about was chaos, mothers weeping for their dead and wounded children, doctors and nurses shouting to be heard, coffins shouldered along the corridors to taxis that stacked two and three on their roofs at a time, serving as makeshift hearses. It was never clear, in the confusion, if the boy was told why he had been asked to follow the nurse out of the ward, down the passageway, past the lamentations...

7:58 EST US military officials reported "extremely heavy contact" on March 31 with Iraqi forces at Imam Aiyub, south of Hilla on the eastern or Baghdad side of the Euphrates River. However, most of the U.S. forces in the area between An Najaf and Kerbala appear to be still on the far western bank, including those fighting at Hindiya. U.S. units engaging Iraqi forces near Imam Aiyub include the 2nd Battalion 70th Armored Regiment and elements of the 101st Airborne Division.

At least one U.S. soldier killed in c.Iraq NEAR IMAM AIYUB, Iraq, March 31 (Reuters) - At least one U.S. soldier was killed on Monday in a clash with Iraqi forces armed with rocket propelled grenades about 110 km (70 miles) south of Baghdad. A U.S. officer said that at least one soldier died in the fighting near the town of Imam Aiyub, south of the city of Hilla. U.S. forces were firing artillery towards the town and Iraqi forces were hitting back with mortars and rocket propelled grenades, said Reuters correspondent Andrew Gray, who was travelling with the troops.