BBC: One Day in Iraq: At-a-glance

[leftchick]

An interesting new News Feature from the BBC Web site...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4613765.stm

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NEWS 1336: Four Iraqi soldiers are killed in an ambush and a roadside bombing north of Baghdad, AFP reports quoting Iraqi police and the army officials. Two bullet-riddled bodies were found on the banks of a nearby river, the report also says.

NEWS 1328: The US Army denies killing seven people during a raid on the town of Rawah on Sunday, the al-Jazeera Arabic TV network reports. The station quotes eyewitnesses as saying seven people died when the US shelled houses in a raid in which 80 people were arrested.

NEWS 1325: Iraqi government spokesman Leith Kubba says 887 people have been detained since 22 May in a huge sweep called Operation Lightning, AFP reports. He also denies that he had said that Saddam Hussein would be tried within two months.

NEWS 1317: A US Marine was killed in Falluja when a bomb went off near his vehicle on Monday, the US military says in a statement reported by AP.

NEWS 1304: A correspondent for pan-Arab al-Arabiya TV channel reports that US soldiers have shot dead two Iraqi teachers in the Tamin district of Ramadi. The correspondent says the two Iraqis were caught up in a raid against insurgents that the US troops were conducting.

[Supersedeas]

1. and the U.S. corporate media is focused on the daily pervert

[snot]

2. If you appreciate the BBC as we've known it, PLS go to this link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=376080&mesg_id=376080