Hilla - Eight people were killed and 32 wounded in car bomb blast south of Baghdad, on Monday (6/25/2012). Meanwhile, a roadside bomb north of the Iraqi capital that also killed four people and wounding seven others.
Thus spoken several medical and security sources in the city. Lieutenant (Police) and Dr. Saad Ali Jassem al-Khafaji of the Hilla hospital said the car bomb exploded at around 19:45 local time (23:45 GMT) near a soccer field in Hilla, 95 kilometers south of Baghdad.
While in Baquba, 60 kilometers north of Baghdad, a police colonel and Dr. Ahmed Ibrahim of Baquba Hospital said that a roadside bomb blast also killed four people and wounding seven others.
Recorded, with a violent past, the number of victims killed in attacks in Iraq since June 13 and be at least 171. This amount exceeds the death rate during May.
On June 13, 72 people were killed and over 250 injured in a wave of attacks in Iraq, which was then claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), a branch of Al Qaeda in Iraq. Three days later, 32 people were killed and dozens wounded in two car bombings targeting Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad at the top of the memorial that marks the death of a holy Shiite cleric at 799.
Thereafter, on June 18, suicide bombings targeted Shiite mourners in Baquba, north of Baghdad, also killed 22 people and wounding dozens of others, while shooting and bombing killed six people in Iraq on June 19. Friday (6/22/2012), the attacks killed at least 12 people and wounding dozens of others.
Violence in Iraq down from its peak in 2006 and 2007. However, the attacks are still happening. According to government figures, 132 people were killed in Iraq last May.
Iraq plagued by violence that killed hundreds of people and political turmoil since U.S. forces completed the withdrawal from that country on December 18, 2011, leaving responsibility for security to Iraqi forces. In addition to problems with the Kurds, the Iraqi government is also at odds with Sunni groups.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (Shia) since December to seek the arrest of Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi on charges of terrorism and attempted to fire Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Absolute. Both are Sunni leader.
Sunni clerics are warning that Maliki is pushing the sectarian divisions, and protesters thronged the streets of Iraq with banners supporting Hashemi and criticizing the government.
As from yesterday, closing 44 Iraqi media broadcasting license because of the reasons for the dispute. Although until Monday (6/25/2012), there has been no action from the closure of the Iraqi authorities, the BBC and Voice of America, including two mass media are affected by the policy.
CMC policy is not directly related to the way the media reports of sectarian conflict in The Thousand and One Nights.
Meanwhile, local television channels and private Iraqi Sharqiya Baghdadia also on the closure list. Then, Radio Sawa whose performance received financial support from the U.S. also became one of 44 media in question.
Media and Communication is the Commission of Iraq (CMC) which issued the policy. Sources at the commission, wrote the AP and AFP, said the CMC policy is not directly related to the way the media reports of sectarian conflict in the land of the Thousand and One Nights. "Mass media should be closed because they did not pay the license," the source said.
CMC itself has been handed closure orders to the Baghdad Operations Command. As a result, the agency that will make immediate closure.
Erratic course, this policy invites parties protested the mass media. "It's really wrong and unwise because it occurred when the country plunged into political uncertainty," said the leader of the Press Freedom Observatory Ziyad al-Ajili who worry that the policy was destroying the positive image of Iraq as a free country.
While the BBC says ready to negotiate the renewal of its license by the Iraqi government. BBC also warns that if lembagai with other international news organizations can operate freely and broadcast the news that independent and impartial to the viewers in Iraq, as well as in the wider region.
Nephew claimed Saddam, Bashar seek asylum
A man claiming to be a nephew of the late Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein asked for asylum in Austria after being arrested in a routine identity checks, local media reported on Friday (22/06/2012).
Police caught 42-year-old man with two other Iraqis on Thursday (6/21/2012), at railway stations in Thaikirchen, said Austrian television station ORF.
When the police wanted to check his identity, claiming the men were flying from Turkey to Austria on a false passport and claimed asylum, according to ORF quoted the Interior Ministry spokesman Karl-Heinz Grundboeck. Then confiscated their passports.
One of them later confessed to police that he was nephew of Saddam Hussein, said Grundboeck. Their requests are being considered, he added.
Kronen Zeitung newspaper called the man who claimed that Saddam's nephew named Bashar N are included in the wanted list since 2006.
Tiu third person being examined and investigated by the police finger and people who claim Saddam's nephew was taken to a secret place as an act of protection, according to ORF.
According to the Kronen Zeitung, there is an arrest warrant Bashar N in the middle of the Iraqi government's efforts to bring Saddam to justice relatives.
The Iraqi government executed Saddam Hussein's former secretary, Abed Hamid Hamoud al-Tikriti, on Thursday (7/6/2012), in Baghdad. "The convict convicted of genocide," the statement said the Iraqi Justice Ministry.
According to Xinhua news, Hamoud is the closest among the late Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi president, who received the death penalty since October 26, 2010. Regime of Saddam Hussein guilty of crimes against humanity in the 1980s. In Iraq, the executions were carried out by hanging the law.
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