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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.