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This is problematic: Five Iranian officials held in Iraq for more than two years by U.S. forces returned home Sunday after the U.S. released them under pressure from the Iraqi government.

U.S. Opts to Continue to Hold 5 Iranian Agents April 13, 2007 Washington Post Robin Wright The Bush administration has decided to hold onto five Iranian Revolutionary Guard intelligence agents captured in Iraq, overruling a recommendation from the State Department to release them because they are no longer useful, according to U.S. officials. At a meeting of the president's top foreign policy team Tuesday, the administration decided that the five Iranians will remain in custody and go through the periodic six-month review used for other foreign detainees picked up in Iraq, U.S. officials said. The next review may not happen...

January 11, 2007: A US led raid on a consular office in Irbil, Iraq leads to the capture of six Iranians including(link): Hassan Abbassi, a strategist “close to” President Ahmedinejad and the only individual with any diplomatic credentials.Mohammad Jaafari, an aid to National Security advisor Ali Larijani Jalal Sharifi, a professional intelligence officer. Brig. Gen. Mohammad Djafari Sahraroudi, a Kurdish affairs expert wanted by Interpol Mojhadi Safderi, two Revolutionary Guard officers (link).One of the six, (Hassan?) is released. The other five remain in custody.

US warns Iran on Iraq insurgents The US says Iran is providing more lethal bombs to insurgents The US has issued the latest in a series of warnings to Iran, telling Tehran to stop helping Iraqi militants make lethal bombs to attack US troops.Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said US forces had detained several Iranians suspected of providing weapons technology to Shia insurgents. He said Iranian help for insurgents had spread from Basra north to Baghdad, leading to higher UK and US casualties. Tehran has repeatedly denied that it is fuelling the violence in Iraq. Mr Burns told the...

January 27, 2007 -- Those who insist so loudly on following Geneva Conventions rules regarding captured terrorists need to take a long, hard look at the latest atrocity in Iraq, news of which broke yesterday. Four U.S. soldiers, one of them a New Yorker, were captured - and promptly murdered - last Saturday in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles from Baghdad, officials confirmed. Two of the slain soldiers were found handcuffed together in the back of a vehicle. Soldiers die in combat, of course. But the murder of disarmed and helpless troops - killing POWs, in effect...

U.S. Deadlocked on Whether To Free Iranian Terror Suspects ELI LAKE January 19, 2007 WASHINGTON — The American government is deadlocked on the issue of whether to allow five Iranians captured last Wednesday in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil to return home, according to three administration officials. While the five individuals picked up in last week's raid have been determined not to have diplomatic immunity, as Iran's Foreign Ministry has insisted, it is still unclear whether Tehran might prevail in the standoff. The military has said those detained were members of Iran's elite al-Quds force, a unit of the...

The Irbil Five New York Sun Staff Editorial January 19, 2007 Quite a tug of war is going on within the Bush administration over what to do with a clutch of Iranian saboteurs seized in the Iraqi theater. The Iranians were seized only hours after President Bush, in his nationally televised address on his plan to reinforce our troops in Iraq, declared that we would interdict the efforts of our enemies to support the insurgency from redoubts in Iran and Syria. In a dramatic raid on the morning of January 10 in Irbil, American forces entered an Iranian building and...

<p>WASHINGTON - An order from President Bush authorized a series of U.S. raids against Iranians in Iraq as part of a broad military offensive, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday.</p> <p>Bush issued the order several months ago, Rice told The New York Times as she prepared to visit the Middle East. She said the president acted "after a period of time in which we saw increasing activity" among Iranians in Iraq "and increasing lethality in what they were producing."</p>

Condoleezza Rice in Iraqi Kurdistan after Baghdad ERBIL (Iraq) - the American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived Friday morning at Erbil, principal city of Iraqi Kurdistan, for discussions with the president of the autonomous area of Kurdistan Massoud Barzani, noted a journalist of AFP. Mrs. Rice had arrived Thursday to Iraq, in Baghdad, for a surprised visit intended to encourage the process of national reconciliation Iraqi, after visits in Israel and in the Palestinian territories. The American Secretary of State must go to London later in the course of the day to take part in the meeting of...

Trade Show Highlights Progress in Irbil More than 800 companies from 27 countries were represented insidea makeshift convention center in the capital of the Kurdistan region. By U.S. Army Sgt. Frank Pellegrini IRBIL, Iraq, Sept. 19, 2006 -- It was just an ordinary trade show - booths papered with colorful displays and overflowing with brochures. It was the hum of business, the sound of sales pitches and the slap of handshakes. Except this trade show was in Iraq.The city of Irbil hosted “Rebuild Iraq 2006” Sept. 14-17. More than 800 companies from 27 countries were represented inside a makeshift...

Iraqi police officer survives assassination, five terrorists arrested in search operation IRBIL, March 26 (KUNA) -- An Iraqi chief of police survived assassination on Sunday in the city of Kirkuk, northern Iraq. Police sources told reporters that an explosive device targeted the convoy of Chief of Meqdad Police Center, Brigadier Adel Zein Al-Abedin while on his way to work, noting that the blast caused property damages.

Iraq: Irbil’s Kurds live on a hill of undiscovered treasures Source: Radio Free Europe (12-13-05) The kidnapping of a German archeologist in late November highlighted both the historical wealth of Iraq and the perils of exploring that history. In much of the country, archeologists have all but abandoned their work because of security concerns. But officials in Kurdish-administered northern Iraq say the region is secure enough for excavations. The region is rich in potential sites, and only a fraction of them have been researched. One of the most dramatic is in the heart of Irbil, the capital of the Kurdish...

Iraq Insurgents in First Attack on Korean Troops Korea's Zaytun Division in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil took cover late Sunday evening when four shells presumably fired by insurgents landed near the unit's base compound, the first direct attack on Korean troops since they were deployed to the area last September. There were no casualties among Korean soldiers or civilians, but the division's activity is likely to be curtailed for some time. "At around 11:00 p.m., there were blasts and flames as two shells landed in wheat fields 500 m south of the Zaytun Division base walls, and two...

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) -- An Iraqi carrying hidden explosives set them off outside a police recruitment center Wednesday where people were applying for jobs, police said. The U.S. military said at least 50 Iraqis were killed, making it the deadliest insurgent attack in Iraq in more than two months. State-owned TV in Iraq and Al-Arabiya television gave even higher casualty figures, saying 60 were killed and as many as 150 wounded. At least seven cars parked near the center were destroyed by the blast in Irbil, a Kurdish city 220 miles north of Baghdad. Several nearby buildings were damaged. Pools...

ALARM - Forty-five died in an attack commits suicide in Erbil in Iraq ERBIL (Iraq) - Forty-five people were killed and 90 wounded in an attack commits suicide made Wednesday with Erbil, in Kurdistan of Iraq, according to the governor Nawzad Hadi.

IRBIL, Iraq - Adnan Ismael raced to the back of the campaign bus carrying supporters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and frantically pulled aside a dark blue curtain so he could see out. Hundreds of honking cars were following behind in an impromptu rolling celebration late Thursday afternoon through this ancient city. Passengers hung out of vehicles, shouting and waving the yellow flag of the KDP and the red, white and green flag of the Kurdish semiautonomous region here in northern Iraq.

A wedding is being held at the newly built Sheraton hotel in Irbil. The Kurdish bride and groom sit blinking into a video camera, their family clustered around. In the background, American contractors are drinking Turkish beer. This place of smiles and shining marble is the Iraq that was meant to be after the fall of Saddam Hussein. It existed for a brief moment after the invasion when American soldiers were at first greeted as liberators. Now the only place still deeply grateful for getting rid of the dictator is in the north of the country, in Kurdistan, a sanctuary...

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IRBIL, Iraq - Compared to most U.S. soldiers in Iraq, Lt. Col. Gregory Politowicz and his 19 colleagues lead the good life. Instead of sweltering tents or massively fortified bunkers, they stay in rented villas where they cook their own meals and relax without fear of mortars crashing through the roof. When they go to work, repainting schools or repairing wells, Iraqis are genuinely happy to see them. Politowicz has been invited into so many homes to drink chai - tea - that he has lost count. "They don't hate anybody else, they focus on getting their kids an education...

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 February 5, 2004Release Number: 04-02-08 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION TRANSFERS AUTHORITY TO TASK FORCE OLYMPIA MOSUL, Iraq – As hundreds of regional Iraqi leaders and Coalition partners looked on, the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) transferred authority and operational control of Ninewa, Irbil and Dahuk provinces to Task Force Olympia today at the palace headquarters complex in northern Mosul. Task Force Olympia is a sub-element of I Corps headquarters based at Fort Lewis, Wash. The unit includes representatives...

<p>106 suspected insurgents arrested; no progress in Irbil bombing probe BAGHDAD (AP) — U.S. and Iraqi forces captured more than 100 suspected insurgents in raids across the country, arresting a former Iraqi general and another Iraqi believed involved in a suicide bombing last month, the U.S. command said Thursday. Those arrested included former Brig. Gen. Abu Aymad al-Tikriti, former head of military intelligence in northern Iraq, Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt said. Al-Tikriti was arrested early Thursday along with three others near Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's hometown, he said.</p>

Al-Qaeda linked group claims blastsFrom correspondents in DubaiFebruary 5, 2004AN Islamist group, Ansar al-Sunna, with alleged links to al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility today for the deadly twin suicide attacks in the northern Iraqi Kurdish city of Arbil, according to an Islamist Internet site. In a statement posted on the site, the group said "two of our martyr brothers attacked the two dens of Satan in Arbil" on Sunday. "Our joy on Eid al-Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice) was boosted by this attack against the agents of Jews and Christians," the statement said. It was not possible to independently verify the statement....

Video Captures Images of Iraq Suicide Bomber At Least 101 Were Killed in Joint Attacks on Kurdish Groups MSNBC News Services Updated: 2:06 p.m. ET Feb. 03, 2004 IRBIL, Iraq - A video camera captured images of a man shaking hands with a Kurdish official seconds before blowing himself up in one of the two suicide bombings during Muslim holiday celebrations that killed 101 people. Kurds blamed Ansar al-Islam, a militant group allegedly linked to al-Qaida, for the attacks./snip/The PUK video shows only the back of the bomber’s head as he joined the line. The man, apparently in his 20s...

Iraqi deaths caused by the two suicide bombings Feb. 1 in Irbil increased to 67, a senior U.S. officer reported today from Baghdad. The number of people injured in the attacks now stands at 247, Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, deputy operations director of Combined Joint Task Force 7, told reporters. U.S. authorities in Baghdad first reported Feb. 1 that 56 people had been killed in the assaults, with more than 200 persons injured. Kimmitt said the FBI has collected evidence from the attack sites at the offices of two American-supported Kurdish political parties. Members of the 101st Airborne Division,...

<p>ERBIL, Iraq -- Kurds blamed Ansar al-Islam, an Al Qaeda-linked militant group, for suicide bombings that killed at least 67 people, saying yesterday that its members increasingly have been slipping into Iraq since Saddam Hussein's ouster.</p> <p>Thousands gathered to mourn at Erbil's largest mosque, where the two main Kurdish parties -- both US allies, but often at odds with each other -- held a joint memorial in a show of unity.</p>

IRBIL, Iraq -- A video camera has captured images of a man shaking hands with a Kurdish official seconds before blowing himself up in one of the two suicide bombings during Muslim holiday celebrations that killed 67 people. Kurds blamed Ansar al-Islam, a militant group allegedly linked to al-Qaida, for the attacks. The video shows the suicide bomber mingling with hundreds of well-wishers greeting officials of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, or PUK, on Sunday, the first day of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha. A second attacker slipped in similarly in a gathering of the Kurdish Democratic Party across town....

Wolfowitz: Iraq Attacks Show U.S. Efforts Succeeding Reuters / 2-02-04 By Tabassum Zakaria KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Attacks in Iraq (news - web sites) like the Arbil suicide bombings show efforts to build a new Iraq are succeeding and that extremists are using violence to stop the process, U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said on Monday. "The most discouraging news in the last couple of the days is the bombing in Arbil," said Wolfowitz, who is on his third trip to Iraq since the war ended last April. "They took advantage of the Muslim holiday when people relaxed," he...

Bombings Cripple More Than Civilians Mon Feb 2, Top Stories - Los Angeles By Alissa J. Rubin Times Staff Writer BAGHDAD — When two suicide bombers blew themselves up inside the offices of the two main Kurdish political parties Sunday, they not only killed scores of civilians but further crippled Iraq (news - web sites)'s move toward self-governance. The violence seems certain to reduce the already slim chances of Iraqi elections before July and could even delay those scheduled for early 2005 — complicating U.S. efforts to turn over power to an interim government that could be regarded as legitimate....

Death Toll Rises in Iraq Bombings - 67 Bremer Statement Condemns Attacks, Promises Justice By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI, Associated Press Writer IRBIL, Iraq - American military officials raised the death toll in suicide bombings at two Kurdish party offices to 67 on Monday, while a Kurdish official said he suspected the bombings were carried out by terrorists linked to al-Qaida. Bremer Statement Condemns Attacks, Promises Justice No group claimed responsibility for Sunday's attacks, the bloodiest in Iraq (news - web sites) in six months. But American and Kurdish officials suspected foreign militants or Ansar al-Islam, an al-Qaida-linked Islamic militant group operating...

<p>IRBIL, Iraq -- Suicide bombers with explosives wired to their bodies struck the offices of the country's two main Kurdish parties in nearly simultaneous attacks yesterday, killing at least 56 persons and wounding more than 235 in the deadliest assault in Iraq in six months.</p>

The two suicide bombings in Irbil that news reports say killed 56 people and wounded 235, "speaks volumes about what these extremists are all about," said Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz here today. Wolfowitz is visiting Iraq to see how the rotation of forces is going. He said that suicide bombers attacked the headquarters of two Kurdish political parties. The terrorists attacked precisely at a time when people were gathered to celebrate one of the holiest days in the Muslim calendar – the Eid al Adha. The deputy secretary made his comments while touring an Iraqi police station. "(The extremists)...

The US-led coalition in Iraq has vowed to punish those responsible for coordinated suicide bombings which have killed at least 56 people in the northern city of Arbil. The twin blasts injured more than 100 other people. In a statement, Iraq's US administrator, Paul Bremer, described the attack as cowardly and said those responsible for the acts would be brought to justice. The twin bombings took place within minutes of each other at the headquarters of rival Kurdish political parties - the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). The offices were crowded with people visiting the...

By Shamal Aqrawi ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Two suicide bombers strapped with explosives blew themselves up in nearly simultaneous attacks on offices of two Kurdish parties in Iraq Sunday, killing and wounding as many as 200 people, officials said. "According to what I have been told the number of wounded and martyrs at the two headquarters may approach 200," an official of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) said. Among the dead were the deputy governor of Arbil province and the city's police commander, witnesses said. Party sources said at least some of those killed were senior officials. The blasts...

Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III expressed anger and dismay over today's suicide bombings in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil, in a statement the coalition administrator released from Baghdad today. The Irbil bombings killed 56 Iraqis and wounded about 200 more, Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, deputy operations director of Combined Joint Task Force 7, said at a Baghdad news conference. News reports said two suicide bombers separately attacked the offices of two American-supported Kurdish political parties. "Any of a number of foreign terrorist groups attempting to operate inside of Iraq" could have been responsible for the bombings, Kimmitt said,...

Iraq Blasts May Have Killed More Than 100 6 minutes ago By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI, Associated Press Writer IRBIL, Iraq - Two suicide bombers blew themselves up at the offices of two rival Kurdish parties in this northern Iraqi city. Kurdish officials said casualties were still being counted, but one minister said the death toll could rise above 100. The dead included the governor of the region, ministers in the local administration and several senior officials, Mohammed Ihsan, the human rights minister for the Kurdish regional government told The Associated Press. "These figures are estimates but I believe about 60 people...

<p>IRBIL, Iraq, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- A suicide car bomber struck the U.S. intelligence headquarters in Irbil, Iraq, killing three, the London Guardian reported Wednesday.</p> <p>A Kurdish security official said three Iraqis were killed, including a 12-year-old boy. Six Americans were wounded.</p>

IRBIL, Iraq - A suicide bomber exploded in an SUV outside the U.S. intelligence headquarters, killing three other Iraqis and wounding dozens, including four Americans, a Kurdish security official said Wednesday. The U.S. military in Baghdad had said six Americans were wounded but later said four intelligence officers were hurt along with a Kurdish peshmerga guard at the building. The Kurdish official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press that the vehicle was filled with TNT. He also said several homes in the neighborhood, which was cordoned off by U.S. soldiers, were destroyed. He blamed al-Qaida for...

Fox reporting a car bombing in Northern Iraq..

ANKARA, Turkey - A car bomb exploded Tuesday outside an office used by U.S soldiers in northern Iraq, private CNN-Turk television reported. Several people were reported wounded, but it was unclear if Americans were among them. The wounded included Iraqi Kurdish guards and children from nearby houses. Firefighters rushed to the scene. U.S. military officials said they could not immediately confirm the report. Authorities in Irbil, the administrative capital of Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq about 200 miles north of Baghdad, called to residents over loudspeakers to donate blood for the wounded, CNN-Turk said. Northern Iraq has been the most stable part...

The streets of the Kurdish capital, Erbil, filled with American, Iraqi and Kurdish flags yesterday as tens of thousands took to the street to celebrate the demise of the regime. Kurdish Iraqis celebrate in the northern Iraqi town of Arbil "Saddam, the criminal, the murderer, the savage, wild animal is gone," shouted a widow, Fauziya Ali, 45. "The black criminal, perpetrator of Halabja, is dead," she said. Halabja, a town that bore the brunt of Saddam Hussein's genocidal attempt to quell the Kurds with nerve agents and chemical weapons, is foremost among the reasons that the Kurdish people hunger for...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 03/27/03 - Baghdad, Sarqat, Chamchamal, Fayda, Qushtapa,Tapa Korra, Dohuk,I rbil, Kalak, Qoratu BREAKING: Baghdad.- Evil to Dust BREAKING: Chamchamal - Coalition warplanes attack BREAKING: Fayda, Qushtapa, Tapa Korra BREAKING: Dohuk, Irbil, Kalak, Qoratu BREAKING: Sarqat - Ansar al-Islam ========= Chamchamal ========= In Chamchamal, Coalition warplanes pound front-line Iraqi positions. In Chamchamal, a Kurd security guard shows a terrorist bomber's belt filled with TNT made by Ansar i-Islam. Near Chamchamal, Kurdish militia. ========= Sarqat ========= THE FACE OF THE ENEMY In Sarqat, an Ansar al-Islam [al-Qaeda] terrorist. ========= Fayda ========= Fayda, controlled by...

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GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 12/8/02 - Baghdad, Hatra, Irbil, Iskandariya, NY, Samara'a BREAKING: Baghdad, Iraq, - THE spurious document release BREAKING: Irbil, Iraq - US Congress visits BREAKING: Iskandariya - Inspection BREAKING: New York - Aldouri Blix Annan deal violates Security Countil Resolution 1441 Declaration #3 Hatra, Samara'a ========= Baghdad ========= BREAKING: In Baghdad, at the Iraqi spurious document release. =========== al-Muthanna complex =========== BREAKING: At al-Muthanna complex, 40 miles northwest of Baghdad, mustard gas remains. ========= Hatra ========= In Hatra, ~350 klicks north of Baghdad. ========= Irbil ========= BREAKING: In Irbil, Iraq, controlled by the...

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