Baghdad - A suspected senior member of the al-Qaeda terrorist network was shot dead by US and British forces in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, a security source said Thursday.
"The suspect was killed when a hotel in central Basra was raided after intelligence reports said that he has taken refuge in it," the source told the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency.
British forces confirmed the incident to VOI, but provided no further information about it.
Baghdad - The government of Iraq responded angrily Thursday to calls by the leader of an al-Qaeda-linked organization to have the country's top Sunni officials killed, local media said.
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State of Iraq militia, had said Wednesday that Iraq's top Sunni officials, including Vice- President Tareq al-Hashimi, should be killed because they were working "against Islam and in support of the American occupation."
Baghdad - A major Iraqi political party has called on the Iraqi government to integrate the so-called Awakening Councils into the country's regular security forces, it emerged on Thursday.
A spokesman for the Iraqi National Accord Front, a mainly Sunni Islamist coalition, said that the Awakening Councils, which were instrumental in bringing the Sunni resistance into the pro-US fold and in beating back al-Qaeda, should be brought into the political mainstream.
Baghdad - Three civilians were killed and 12 people wounded in an explosion late Wednesday in the Shiite-dominated city of Karbala, 110 km southwest of Baghdad, sources said.
Medical sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that two children and a woman were dead. Meanwhile, a police source told the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency that the explosion took place only 1,000 metres from the mausoleum of Imam al-Hussein, grandson of the prophet Mohammad.
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Baghdad - A suspected senior member of the al-Qaeda terrorist network was shot dead by US and British forces in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, a security source said Thursday.
Baghdad - The government of Iraq responded angrily Thursday to calls by the leader of an al-Qaeda-linked organization to have the country's top Sunni officials killed, local media said.
Baghdad - A major Iraqi political party has called on the Iraqi government to integrate the so-called Awakening Councils into the country's regular security forces, it emerged on Thursday.
Baghdad - Three civilians were killed and 12 people wounded in an explosion late Wednesday in the Shiite-dominated city of Karbala, 110 km southwest of Baghdad, sources said.
