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Iraqi authorities extended a curfew on Baghdad
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Iraqi authorities extended a curfew on Baghdad to Saturday BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A spokesman for the Defense Ministry said on Friday that the Iraqi authorities decided to extend the curfew imposed on Baghdad after the attacks of a large bombing and thus continue to ban the vehicles in the city on Saturday. The authorities had declared a curfew imposed after the killing of more than 200 people in a series of explosions in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City yesterday, Thursday,. Armed men attacked on Friday an area inhabited year in the capital and burned mosques in an apparent revenge attack.

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Annan calls for calm and restraint in Iraq
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan for calm and restraint in Iraq on Friday after killing and injuring hundreds in a spiral of armed clashes and explosions and the burning of mosques and homes. He said United Nations spokesman Yves Surukubi that Annan "condemns these heinous acts strongest terms possible," adding that such actions "can not be justified by any cause to change the aim is clearly to provoke sectarian conflict and instability and undermining national unity is the biggest in Iraq." He went on to say "the Secretary-General urges the Iraqi people to respond to appeals from political and religious leaders from all parties for calm and restraint to prevent the escalation of the situation." Gunmen killed dozens of people and burned mosques in the Sunni area of Baghdad today, Friday, and clashes broke out in the Shiite neighborhood on Thursday, killing 202 people in the most bloody bombings since the beginning of the war.

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The Iraqi Olympic team tied with Syria and the top
(Voice of Iraq) - 11-24-2006 This issue was sent to a friend The Iraqi Olympic team tied with Syria and leads Group Baghdad - (Voices of Iraq) The Iraqi Olympic team issued the second group in the qualifying rounds for the championship finals of the Olympic Games and the Asian ******* after today, Friday, matched with his Syrian counterpart, without goals. During the match today, held in Singapore, where are the qualifiers, clear control of the Iraqi Olympic team at the expense of his Syrian marked by the performance of his team very cautious in order to obtain the point of the match qualifies to reach the finals, which were achieved. With this result Iraq group issued a total of seven points and eight goals from the beating of Indonesia (6 3-0), and Singapore (2-0), equivalent today with Syria. The second place team Syrian and got five points and four goals to offset the negative without goals with both Singapore and Iraq and the victory over Indonesia with four straight goals. The first set includes Macau, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Jordan. And Iraq had obtained the gold medal in the Asian session, which was held in India in 1982. It is noteworthy that the ******* Championship hosted in Doha, pouncing on 15 January 1st next December. M-m s-h p n

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Talabani, Hakim and the Hashemite send an appeal to the Iraqi people after the terrorist attack on Sadr City

November 24, 2006

To cope with the repercussions of the cowardly terrorist attack on innocent civilians in Sadr City, holding Mr. President Jalal Talabani met with His Eminence Mr. Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, head of the United Iraqi Alliance list, Mr. Tariq Al-Hashmi, Vice President of the Republic in the office of Mr. Abdel Aziz al-Hakim on Thursday, 11-23-2006 and directed an appeal to the Iraqi people that read :

"In the name of God the Merciful
Leaders closely watching with deep concern the serious deterioration of the security situation and condemn and strongly condemn the acts of violence and terrorism, which target innocent Iraqis and singles out the massacre heinous attacks in Sadr City, mortar shells, which are still subject to revive the corners of Baghdad, especially the city of Karbala and hung and others where the dozens of martyrs and the wounded.
While it is a sincere call for sanity and leaders to take urgent beat the responsible aside their differences and rebuild Astafafhm behind the national interest of the common Abraoua acquitted before God and before the people and call for a reassessment of the security plans in Baghdad and the adoption of new ways to ensure the lives of the people and their lives and their reservation, we must correct the imbalance in the security file and has to be a new vision in this area contributed by the political council of national security.
What happened today puts everyone under the joint responsibility and should move immediately to everyone to bring a speedy end to the tragedy of Iraq, working hard to build a state of institutions and the rule of law and order.
And as we share the grief of the people and call for Martyrs and compassionate to the wounded a speedy recovery appeal to everyone to exercise restraint and resort to reason and calm so that the enemies of Iraq.
God save Iraq and its people from all harm.

Interior : curfews event will accomplish its mission security forces

Baghdad-11-24 : A source in the Iraqi Interior Ministry today, Friday, that the curfew, which the government announced yesterday, continuing until the completion of the concerned bodies to the task of prosecuting the perpetrators of the bombings in Sadr City and the transfer of the victims of dead and injured from the explosions. Baghdad witnessed today, and the relatively calm because of the curfew imposed by the government after an eventful bloody day which left hundreds dead and wounded. The four car bomb exploded yesterday in the different areas of Sadr City, with a Shiite majority (east of Baghdad) and caused the deaths of a large number of civilian victims, she said the Iraqi Ministry of Health that hit their dead (142) and (225) injured. However, the official spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Defense said that six cars exploded in the city. the fall resulted from the dead (200) and (250) wounded. The media source in the Ministry of Interior News Agency (Voices of race) Independent today that "The imposition of curfew yesterday evening, is making way for the staff of the Ministry of Health to carry out their work, and to facilitate the movement of ambulances carrying the wounded from the blast sites to hospitals. It hospital to another specialist. " The source at the Ministry of Interior said that the security forces "will stick security in Baghdad during the curfews, The prosecution of perpetrators of the recent bombings in Sadr City. " He pointed out that the curfews, "the event will accomplish security tasks." Police were deployed in large numbers of police and the army in the streets of Baghdad. The security forces closed off areas and neighborhoods outlets in the capital before the vehicles. Baghdad witnessed Thursday and also attack lasted three hours, dozens of armed attack on the headquarters of the Ministry of Health, the center of the capital, They exchanged fire with guards the building. , Which resulted in the injury of at least five people. Some also fell (12) a mortar shell was fired at the neighborhood hung (north of Baghdad), resulting in injuries to ten people and damaged a mosque (Abu Hanifa Al) in the region. The Iraqi government announced the imposition of curfews in Baghdad starting in eight of Thursday night and until further notice, She also announced the closure of Baghdad International Airport. Rafidain Welcome to AlRafidayn: The Iraqi information service

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The representative of al-Sistani refuses to hold any political responsibility for the events of Sadr City.

Karbala - 11-24 : the representative refused Shiite Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in Karbala today, Friday, to hold any political responsibility for the events of Sadr City yesterday. However, he accused the occupation forces work of the umbrella of (terrorism) in Iraq.
He called Mr. Ahmed net in the Friday sermon at the Al-Husseini, the dish before thousands of worshipers today to the "self-restraint and not to be drawn behind the schemes."
He also called on politicians to "new beginning before devouring fire of terrorism all, Not satisfied with indignation and condemnation. "
He said that "the terrorism in Iraq proceed under the umbrella." Accusing the occupation forces, "the work of this umbrella."
He said that "what happened yesterday in Sadr City offense." He added, "we can not be reassured that what happened yesterday is the latest crimes unless real solutions to such crimes."
The city chest with a Shiite majority yesterday a series of car bomb explosions in different areas caused the deaths of a large number of civilian victims, she said the Iraqi Ministry of Health that hit their dead (142) and (225) injured.
He said the net : "We can not take the blame for any political entity, However, we wonder. Who will stop this serial in Iraq? It is behind the terrorist acts? What are the legal procedures taken against them? . "
He continued : "Some politicians are unsuccessful bids to resolve the crisis because they cover up the feelings of some at the expense of Iraqi blood. and everyone speaks in public and then spoke deals in the night to pounce on this place or that. "
He said, "by the responsible party to take the initiative to solve this crisis, and not to abhorrence and condemnation, because the denunciation does not restore blood does not convinced by the Iraqi people. "
His net was "in Iraq three entities is the task of Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds. The grant can live side by side, and this as far as non-negative, but coexistence is a common, It is not logical that rejoices this party if the parties to the killing of the second party. "
The net that what is happening in Iraq is due to "the weakness of the security apparatuses."
He asked ministers who could not afford the liability "to submit their resignations."
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Chest bloc threatened to withdraw from the political process

Baghdad-11-24 : Chest bloc threatened to withdraw from parliament and the government in the event before Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki forward scheduled meeting with the American President George W. Bush next week in the Jordanian capital Amman. , Said Qusai Abdul Wahab one loyal to the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr that the American forces responsible for a series of attacks that targeted Sadr City last Thursday because of its failure to secure the necessary security for the city. It is worth noting that the Sadr bloc 30 seats in the Iraqi Parliament of the 275 seats, as is his six seats in the Cabinet.
In the town of Tall Afar near the Syrian border in northern Iraq resulted in a suicide car bomb Friday in the market for cars in the deaths of at least 22 people and injuring 26 others.
With Reuters reported that the attack was a car bomb in addition to the suicide bomber was carrying a belt of explosives.
The high number of casualties.
On the other hand, the number of dead in Sadr City, the capital of Iraq to more than 202 people and the number of infections to 256 people result of the wave of explosions that shook the city, which was described those since the invasion, which led the United States in 2003.
The Iraqi government has imposed a ban open curfew in Baghdad in the wake of these bombings.
The police said that the curfew was introduced on Thursday evening in Baghdad, which is inhabited by seven million people, and called for pedestrians and vehicles to stay away from the streets until further notice
The exempted from the ban Funerals.
The funeral of victims of Sadr City, where thousands of men, women and children who are crying at the Inthabon and accompany the bodies of their loved ones to Najaf from Baghdad, which lies some 160 km where bury in the cemetery in the old city of Najaf, the Shiite holy ones.
The authorities also closed the airports in Baghdad, Basra and the port of Basra in the south of the country.
A spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Defense that the ministry rose from the level of preparedness of the armed forces, He added that this measure came in the wake of the explosion of six car bombs in the chest.
The spokesman added that "the areas and hung Hirsh and Cairo been subjected to mortar fire."
Restraint
The Iraqi government officials held a meeting in the home of Shiite leader cleric Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim, was attended by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani Kurdish, and Vice President Tariq Hashimi is a Sunni. Also attending the American ambassador in Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad.
He called Talabani, Hakim and the Hashemite Iraqis after the meeting to exercise self-restraint and not get sidetracked by emotions.
He also called Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in a message broadcast by state television the Iraqi people to exercise self-restraint "to miss the chance to advocates of sedition," according to the source.
Al-Maliki said "I call on Iraqis to exercise self-restraint and deny those who explosions in Sadr City, which targeted innocent citizens to be able to achieve their efforts to sow sectarian sedition."
As the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr issued a statement urging his followers in Sadr City to show restraint. The Shiite Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, issued a statement within itself.
Consecutive explosions
The scene is commonplace pools of blood in the streets of Baghdad
The first explosion occurred in Sadr City, with a Shiite majority about three this afternoon local time, when a car bomb exploded in a beautiful market for goods where eyewitnesses on the burned bodies, the remains of human flesh scattered on the ground.

Two further explosions followed a difference of 15 minutes of one another, according to David Wayne BBC correspondent in Baghdad.

The market was jammed with shoppers who buy their needs before the holiday Friday.

One of the bombs exploded at a bus stop used by small people of the movement.

The magnitude of the attack and caused the outbreak of fires in great panic in the region east of the capital, the Shiite poor.

And the suburb hung to mortar fire after the attacks of Sadr City shortly, where shells fired at the tomb of Imam Abu Hanifa Al, and to some houses.

The result of this bombing killed at least ten people.
Imposes a large number of victims enormous pressure on the means of transport and hospitals.

The attacks come in the framework of the sectarian conflict that claimed the lives of thousands of Iraqis.

Clashes Ministry of Health
Earlier Thursday, dozens of gunmen attacked the Iraqi Ministry of Health, in the heart of the capital Baghdad, where fierce battles erupted arms with government forces, the ministry guards.
The ministries and staff have become the target of a series of attacks that have occurred recently.
It is believed that about 30 armed men participated in the attack on the Ministry of Health.
Reports said that the armed men of the year. The attack may have been in retaliation for the attack which targeted the Ministry of Education in Baghdad last week and abducted dozens of staff at the hands of those suspected of being Shiite militias.
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General manager ports RETRACTION close outlets Iraq marine

Basra-11-24 : director General of the General Establishment of Iraqi Ports today, Friday, news releases sung yesterday evening some in the media about the closure of ports in Basra following the security attacks on the Sadr City in Baghdad and resulted in the deaths of a large number of civilian victims.
The commander Salah, director general of the treaty ports in a telephone conversation with the News Agency (Voices of Iraq) Independent today that "all seaports Iraqi working normally, including oil terminals. And this story is unfounded. "
The satellite channels and news agencies Iraqi and Arab and foreign stated yesterday evening that the Iraqi seaports closed yesterday evening after the security repercussions that resulted from the detonation of car bombs in Sadr Meddinh east of Baghdad resulted in the deaths of hundreds of civilian victims of their According to a spokesman for the Defense Department, 200 killed and 250 drag Iha which prompted the Iraqi government to impose curfew in the capital and the closure of Baghdad airport and the deployment of security forces in the streets for fear of further attacks.
The director general of the General Establishment for Ports "did not say any media Almwanioualphrih down."

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BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani postponed his much-anticipated visit to Tehran because of a curfew imposed on Baghdad because of soaring violence.

"I can't go because the airport is closed. If it is open on Sunday, I'll go then," Talabani told reporters.

He had been due to leave for Tehran Saturday to meet his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to discuss the situation in Iraq.

Talabani was speaking in the wake of a meeting of the Political Council for National Security, which includes the nation's top lawmakers, to resolve the ongoing crisis.

"It is the first time we spoke that we were frank and we also stressed the need of all parties in the government to be able to participate," he said, in an oblique reference to Sunni complaints of marginalization.

Baghdad airport has been closed since late Thursday after a round-the-clock indefinite curfew was imposed on the Iraqi capital following the deadliest bomb attack in the Shiite district of Sadr City that killed at least 202 people.

The bombings set off tit-for-tat Shiite reprisals in Baghdad with militiamen targeting Sunni mosques in which security sources said many were feared killed.

Ilaf "policy
The escalation of sectarian clashes and Bush described insanity
2006 22:00:00 GMT Friday, November 24 Dr. Osama Mahdi


Papers Baath : Syria and Iran will not save Bush in Iraq The escalation of sectarian clashes and Bush described insanity Osama Mahdi from London : clashes erupted in a sectarian Shiite-Sunnite city of Baghdad and near as described by the White House while being mad headquarters Sadri trend of the young cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to the bombing of airplanes as authorities announced the continuation of curfew in the capital since last night. At the time of the Iraqi Baath party disbanded American President George Bush to take the decision to withdraw from Iraq after negotiations with the resistance, which fell captive troops have also said, pointing out that every play in the American papers burned as formal Iran and Syria will increase the losses of the occupation and rule out leaving peacefully. A day after the bombing in the six Mfajkhat Shiite Sadr City in Baghdad, which led to the death and injury of 458 citizens yesterday, American helicopters bombed the headquarters of the rocket Sadri trend, causing damage to the neighboring and injuring three people injured. Has ambulances transported the injured to a nearby hospital feared to be dead as well. In Hurriyah district in north-west Baghdad Shiite armed elements attacked Sunni mosques, which led to the combustion of one full. Through dozens of gunmen allegedly belonging to the Mahdi Army, under the leadership of al-Sadr mosque call of God Vahrkoh and wounding three other mosques damaged in the neighborhood inhabited by the Shiite majority. In the suburb of Al Bai'aa taking place since Sunday afternoon in bloody clashes between armed Shiites and Sunnites Defense Ministry confirmed that the soldiers had not been able to enter the district because of the ongoing fighting in the alleys of the neighborhood but an American force was able to enter the night and imposed a curfew after the gunmen managed to dimensions on them. In the town of Baquba (65 km northeast of Baghdad) said citizen Skntha in contact with the "Ilaf" that the American forces had searched the headquarters of the morning Sadri trend of the city center and arrested five of the guard after gunmen attacked the headquarters and placed the bombs and then blowing it up in the case. He added that after an hour of the armed group detonated another minaret of a Shiite shrine in the late Ayatollah Sayed Abdel Karim organizations through planting explosive devices Minaret sphere, which is considered the largest in the city and the center of the large market. Today, the condition of Muqtada al-Sadr to denounce the investigation right of the Secretary-General of the Association of Muslim Scholars Harith al-Dhari issuance of this latest opinion deny Shiite blood and join the norm. He called on al-Sadr during his Friday sermon at the Kufa mosque (150 km south of Baghdad), the fierce issue a fatwa prohibiting the killing of Shiites and the accession to the Al Qaeda terrorist organization. He said he requested that the fierce prohibiting the killing of Shiite Muslims that. Prohibiting and join the terrorist group al-Qaeda that killed Muslims in addition to the advisory opinion issued to start building Almerkdin military in Samarra, which destroyed by terrorists in February (January) last. The al-Sadr said in his Friday sermon, broadcast by the channel that Iraqi "in the event of the issuance of these things from Sheikh Dari I shall make a statement, I deplore it any arrest or attack it and can not." Explosions and Dan Sadr Sadr City and demanded the departure of the occupation forces from Iraq or reschedule the streets "to live in an independent and unified Iraq under the banner of the right." Earlier today threatened mass chest of Muqtada al-Sadr and have 30 deputies and six ministers to suspend its membership in the government and parliament if he met Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki with the American President, the "criminal" George Bush next week in Amman. He held deputies and the ministers of the current occupation in a press conference in collaboration with the Baathists to create chaos in the country in order to thwart the government and the political process and bringing the government said it is designed to save customers occupation. The widow of Sadr City victims at the ceremony today, while grieving formed the Ministries of Health and Transport of a joint committee to send the injured to outside Iraq for treatment. At the level of armed reprisals also been hung Sunni neighborhood in Baghdad came under rocket night causing Dome Imam Abu Hanifa. He said the people of Iraq one of the components of the Sunni Accord Front, led by Adnan Al-Dulaimi to several areas in Baghdad have been subjected to the attacks "by criminal gangs and during curfew, as in freedom as was the call of God burning of a mosque and destroyed the front of the Mustafa mosque loved and the targeting of a mosque and houses important missile attacks and ASL Hah light and medium. " . Here is the text of the statement : At a time when the call for calm and unity and deny the enemies of Iraq Exposed areas of Baghdad for organized criminal attacks by criminal gangs and during the imposition The government curfew in Baghdad. Those gangs have carried out terrorist organizer and coordinator of the many areas of Baghdad According to what was shown : • hung : City hung exposed to heavy shelling and mortar fire since the evening yesterday, Thursday, targeting Imam Pontiff and the homes of citizens and the number of missiles till this evening, more than 50 mortar shells. • Freedom : Freedom has come for a big attack by a terrorist militia targeted primarily Mosques and the role of citizens has been burning full Alende mosque and the destruction of the mosque and faced Loved Hotel after the shelling and rocket attacks targeting the mosque important Howitzer Mortar addition to targeting the homes of citizens missile attacks and weapons Light and medium machine. • Ghazaliya : Been targeting neighborhood of Ghazaliya mortar and since yesterday, it hit the number of missiles so This evening, more than 40 mortar shells targeted the mosque Um, friend and dominant And Albert, the owner of the bright-Rahim al-Hadithi, in addition to targeting the homes of citizens Innocent. • Ameriya : Ameriya been pummeled by rockets and mortar shells targeted houses Innocent citizens The number Alkazaev till this evening, more than 12 mortar shells The number of Katyusha rockets. • Hirsh : Hirsh, the area expanded to an attack by a terrorist militia has claimed the lives of many From innocent citizens and resulted in the burning of large numbers of homes. • credit : The targeting of the credit Balkaev rocket and mortar shells and since yesterday also. The General Conference to the people of Iraq and strongly condemned these cowardly crimes targeting All the sons of Iraq, through which it sought enemies of Iraq to foment discord and fueling The striking single people. It demands that the General Conference of the people of Iraq, the Iraqi government to take swift and firm position This trend of gangs moving in Baghdad during the curfew, and was attended also demands Information The official Iraqi channel, especially to distance itself from the political differences and be You people should be the right of the fourth movement and the events that exposed The Sunnis and not consider what is happening from one angle. The General Conference of the Iraqi People Media Bureau Friday 24 / 11 / 2006 Dan and the impact of this White House series of attacks that struck the Sadr City on Thursday and killed more than two hundred people describing it as "insane acts of violence" and affirmed the determination of President George W. Bush to work with the interim Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to restore peace to Iraq. He said White House spokesman Scott Stanzl "We condemn this senseless act of violence, which is clearly designed to undermine the hopes of Iraqis in the establishment of a peaceful and stable. " He added that the United States is determined to help the Iraqis. He pointed out that Bush and Maliki are to meet next week to discuss security and ways to establish peace and stability in Iraq. It is expected to be delivered in Amman during Bush's planned visit to Jordan on Wednesday and Thursday, he said. Baath : America to choose between conditions or destroy the resistance forces He said the Iraqi Baath Party disbanded that America should realize that the future held hostage with his hand and the resistance, however, have occurred in the Iraqi trap terrible sapling Baath them. And remember that the troops in Iraq now hostage to the Iraqi resistance, however, a real and that Iraq was now a large detention of these forces, however, holds the key party and the resistance. The party asked in a statement tonight the American Congress to take decisive action and intensify pressure on the "war criminal George Bush to take immediate Kararalansahab after negotiation m p Iraqi national resistance, but the fate of America and its future will be determined Iraqi resistance in Iraq. " He added that the Israeli occupation forces no longer bear the severity of the blows of the resistance forces, said, "For this reason, after the occupation was defeated militarily and morally began large-scale escape to clients and taking occupation curfew and warning the military of a state of emergency to one lasting result of the spread of the military operations of the resistance on the ground widest of all potential American pw Sukkariyyeh and economic That is the new page of progress towards resolution of armed revolution. " He emphasized that "the Baath and the armed resistance are determined to complete the destruction of the occupation forces and the removal of customers without mercy or hesitation, dropping the project Confederation and the creation of a secessionist signs in the north, center and south of Iraq in preparation for the abolition of the road map implementation of the scheme Zionist-American-Iranian." Acharali and that "the only way to the occupation to get out of its predicament in Iraq is the killer accept the terms of the Iraqi resistance is the legitimate and sole representative of the Iraqi people." He said "every American to play in the papers burned Iran and Syria as formal or relying on isolated elements does not have a popular base will increase the losses of occupation and rule out leaving peacefully." He added that "the agents of Iran, particularly Ali al-Sistani and gangs affiliated to the Badr Corps and Muqtada al-Sadr and the granting of Iraqi nationality to leave Iraq immediately because they will be held accountable as spies tomorrow after liberation," he said. He explained that "our party now declare the Iraqi public opinion for the first time that the civil registry for all Iraqis, which were approved before the invasion, many copies exist in many places inside and outside Iraq and the confirmation process will be an Iraqi everyone is now in Iraq, according to them." He warned that any harm to former President Saddam Hussein, who sentenced him to a criminal court. Death by hanging to death in the fifth of this month, adding that this "will be met with decisive multiform Among its firm decision not to negotiate even if the United States accepted our terms, but we will prevent any party by force if necessary pressed l negotiations with the occupation and the intensification of large-scale attacks on the occupation forces and prevent them from running away to be destroyed on the ground Iraq. " Reports had indicated last week that Izzat Duri, former deputy of Saddam Hussein who leads the former remnants of the Baath Party and the armed groups, has recently rejected mediation by Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh of the capital Sanaa to host talks between the Party and the Americans.

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