IRAQ: NEW FEAR DAWNS OVER BAGHDAD

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  March 29, 2003 ;     653 words ...00-00-0000 BAGHDAD, Mar. 28 (IPS) -- So Baghdad has been bombed again, but it seemed Friday that this is only...be precision-delivered, the rest hit their target by chance. Baghdad has learned to take that kind of chance in its stride. It is...

U.S. armored column drives through Baghdad

AP Worldstream;  April 5, 2003 ;     700+ words ...00-00-0000 Dateline: NEAR BAGHDAD, Iraq U.S. armored vehicles drove through...said an American unit swept in and out of Baghdad. The incursion was not an attempt to capture large sections of Baghdad but to show the Iraqi leadership that they...

Saddam urges Baghdad's people to defend against U.S. troops; more...

AP Worldstream;  April 4, 2003 ;     700+ words ...00-00-0000 Dateline: NEAR BAGHDAD, Iraq With U.S. armored holding Baghdad's airport at the edge of the city Friday, President...have been killed in the initial missile attack on Baghdad on March 20. U.S. officials had suggested that two...

Car bomb explodes outside major Shiite shrine south of Baghdad, killing 53

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  July 18, 2006 ;     700+ words ...BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A suicide car bomber struck...their capture in the area south of Baghdad known as the "Triangle of Death" for...died. In Kufa, 100 miles south of Baghdad, the suicide attacker drove a minivan...and attacks is slowly transforming Baghdad into sectarian zones under the tacit...separate ...

Iraqi deaths increase in May as suicide bomber attacks Baghdad airport...

AP Worldstream;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Associated Press Writer AP Worldstream 06-01-2005 Dateline: BAGHDAD, Iraq Iraqi officials said Wednesday that May's increase...period, wounded 15 Iraqis at the main checkpoint to Baghdad's International Airport. The U.S. military announced...suspects detained during U.S.-Iraqi raids throughout ...

Iraqi forces to dig trenches around Baghdad to stop insurgent infiltration

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  September 15, 2006 ;     700+ words ...BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi security forces will dig trenches around Baghdad and set up checkpoints along all roads leading into the...halt that bloodshed, more U.S. troops have been shifted to Baghdad from the insurgent stronghold of Anbar province, a senior...

Iraqis to Dig Trenches Around Baghdad

AP Online;  September 16, 2006 ;     700+ words ...BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi security forces will dig trenches around Baghdad and set up checkpoints along all roads leading into the...halt that bloodshed, more U.S. troops have been shifted to Baghdad from the insurgent stronghold of Anbar province, a senior...

Iraq to Dig Trenches Around Baghdad

AP Online;  September 15, 2006 ;     700+ words ...BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi security forces will dig trenches around Baghdad and set up checkpoints along all roads leading into the...halt that bloodshed, more U.S. troops have been shifted to Baghdad from the insurgent stronghold of Anbar province, a senior...

The Battle for Baghdad's Future; Three Years After Its Fall, Capital Is...

The Washington Post;  April 9, 2006 ;     700+ words ...As American tanks rumbled into Baghdad three years ago, Omar al- Damaluji took...photographer and civil engineering professor at Baghdad University, Damaluji crisscrossed the...film in two weeks. He knew his beloved Baghdad would never be the same, he recalled...

Troops plan trenches around Baghdad

Charleston Gazette;  September 16, 2006 ;     644 words ......smuggled into the capital. "Trenches will be dug around Baghdad in the coming weeks," the Interior Ministry spokesman...Khalaf, told The Associated Press. "They will surround Baghdad." He provided no details of what distance the trenches...President Bush also mentioned a new plan to safeguard Baghdad - ...

Trenches to be dug around Baghdad; Iraqi security forces are attempting to...

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  September 16, 2006 ;     644 words ......smuggled into the capital. "Trenches will be dug around Baghdad in the coming weeks," the Interior Ministry spokesman...Khalaf, told The Associated Press. "They will surround Baghdad." He provided no details of what distance the trenches...President Bush also mentioned a new plan to safeguard Baghdad - ...

AP Count Tallies Suicide Bombing Deaths

AP Online;  October 28, 2005 ;     678 words ...LORI HINNANT, Associated Press Writer AP Online 10-28-2005 The blood soaked hand of a man is seen...militiamen and a policeman Thursday in a clash southeast of Baghdad _ another sign of rising tensions among Iraq's rival ethnic and religious communities. (AP Photo/Mohammed Hadnan) In the six months since ...

U.S. armor enters Baghdad for the first time

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  April 5, 2003 ;     700+ words ...BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Coalition troops were near the center of Baghdad on Saturday, a U.S. Central Command spokesman said from...this morning, coalition forces are actually in the city of Baghdad," said Navy Capt. Frank Thorp. "As we moved into the city...

U.S. forces briefly move into Baghdad

AP Worldstream;  April 5, 2003 ;     700+ words ...00-00-0000 Dateline: NEAR BAGHDAD U.S. armored vehicles drove through Baghdad on Saturday, smashing through Iraq's Republican Guard...bayonets battled Arab fighters from abroad in a marsh on Baghdad's outskirts. Witnesses in Baghdad said they saw no...

10 Killed in Baghdad Car Bombing

AP Online;  February 28, 2007 ;     700+ words ...BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb killed at least 10 people packed into a Baghdad market Wednesday, police said, while an Iraqi government...and captured six others in separate operations around Baghdad, the military said. The car bomb hit at midmorning in Baiyaa...