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Archive for July 13th, 2009

IRAQ: Iraqi teen’s dream of returning to L.A. comes true

Posted by warvictims on July 13, 2009

By KURT STREETER
July 12, 2009
Her words made my heart sink.

“I want to go back,” she said, speaking by phone from her home in a rough section of Baghdad. She was speaking of America. “I want to go back, as soon as I can.” Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Actors, Air Strike, Civilian Casualties, Country, Crossfire Deaths, Crossfire Injuries, Health Care, Iraq, Middle-East, Other, Region, Tactics, Type of Harm | Tagged: , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment »

IRAQ: Iraq bombings kill 8 in capital, northern village

Posted by warvictims on July 13, 2009

By SAMEER N. YACOUB – 1 day ago

BAGHDAD (AP) — A car bomb exploded in an alley Saturday in a village in northern Iraq, killing at least four people, wounding others and destroying eight homes, police said. Another six people died in bombings in Baghdad. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Actors, Bomb, Car Bomb, Checkpoint Shots, Civilian Casualties, Country, Government, Gunfire, Insurgents, Iraq, Middle-East, Military, Police, Region, Tactics, Targeted Death, Targeted Injury, Terrorists, Type of Harm | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment »

PAKISTAN: No talks with Taliban until it ‘repudiates al-Qaeda publicly’: US

Posted by warvictims on July 13, 2009

Washington, July 12 (ANI): The United States has ruled out any negotiations with the Taliban until it lays down arms and severe all its ties with Al-Qaeda. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Actors, Central Asia, Country, Diplomacy, Government, Insurgents, Other, Pakistan, Region, Terrorists | Tagged: , , , , , , | Leave a Comment »

AFGHANISTAN: Eyewitness: ‘I can’t remember a single day of peace in my home’

Posted by warvictims on July 13, 2009

By Jerome Starkey in Lashkar Gar

Monday, 13 July 2009

Their homes have been destroyed, their schools have been closed and all three know friends and family who have been killed in the fighting. Helmand, their homeland, has been transformed in the past 60 years from a beacon of international development into a giant narco-farm controlled by the Taliban. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Actors, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Civilian Casualties, Country, Crossfire Deaths, Crossfire Injuries, Government, Gunfire, ISAF, Insurgents, Military, NATO/Allies, NGOs, Region, Tactics, Taliban, Type of Harm | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment »

IRAQ: Churches and Envoy Attacked in Iraq

Posted by warvictims on July 13, 2009

By STEVEN LEE MYERS

Published: July 12, 2009

BAGHDAD — A series of bombings hit five Christian churches here on Sunday, killing at least four people, and the American ambassador to Iraq narrowly escaped injury when a roadside bomb struck his convoy in Nasiriya in southern Iraq. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Actors, Bomb, Car Bomb, Civilian Casualties, Country, Government, Iraq, Middle-East, Region, Tactics, Targeted Death, Targeted Injury, Terrorists, Type of Harm | Tagged: , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment »