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U.S. officials describe the town of Husaybah as the key to controlling the volatile Euphrates River valley of western Iraq and dislodging al-Qaida in Iraq, led by Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
The U.S.-led operation includes about 1,000 Iraqi soldiers, and the offensive will serve as a major test of their capability to battle the insurgents - seen as essential to enabling Washington to draw down its 157,000-strong military presence.
Thunderous explosions shook Husaybah early Saturday as U.S. Marines and Iraqi scouts, recruited from pro-government tribes from the area, fought their way into western neighborhoods of the town, 200 miles northwest of Baghdad, residents said.
As fighting continued throughout the day, U.S. jets launched at least nine airstrikes, according to a U.S. Marine statement. The U.S. command said there were no reports of casualties among American or Iraqi forces.
However, the military said Saturday that three more U.S. troops had been killed elsewhere in Iraq.
One soldier was killed Friday by small-arms fire south of Baghdad, and another died the same day when the vehicle in his patrol was hit by a mine near Habaniyah, 50 miles west of the capital. The third soldier was killed Saturday in a traffic accident in southern Iraq.
Those deaths raised to at least 2,045 the number U.S. service members who have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
Also Saturday, five Iraqi police were killed and three wounded when a roadside bomb exploded in northern Baghdad, hospital officials said.
And 11 members of a Kurdish Shiite family - including an infant - were killed and three wounded when gunmen sprayed their minibus with automatic weapons' fire northeast of Baghdad, police said.
The relatives were returning to their home in the Baghdad area after visiting a family cemetery near Balad Ruz, about 50 miles away. Shiite Muslims traditionally pay their respects to their dead during the three-day Eid al-Fitr holiday, which marks the end of Ramadan and ends for most Shiites on Sunday.
The attack's motive was unclear, but tensions between Shiites and Sunnis have been on the rise in the area, with extremists from each community targeting the other.
Elsewhere, a 65-year-old male detainee died Saturday of natural causes at a U.S. military prison camp in southern Iraq, the U.S. military announced. Camp Bucca is located near the southern port city of Umm Qasr near the Kuwaiti border.
U.S. commanders hope the Husaybah offensive, code-named "Operation Steel Curtain," will restore control of western Anbar province ahead of the parliamentary election Dec. 15 and enable Sunni Arabs there to vote.
Sunni Arabs form the vast majority of the insurgents, and U.S. officials hope that a strong Sunni turnout next month will encourage many of them to lay down arms and join the political process.
However, some Sunni Arab politicians and tribal leaders complained that the Husaybah operation was endangering civilians in the overwhelmingly Sunni area and could lead to greater instability throughout Sunni sections of the country.
"We call all humanitarians and those who carry peace to the world to intervene to stop the repeated bloodshed in the western parts of Iraq," said Sheik Osama Jadaan, a Sunni tribal leader. "And we say to the American occupiers to get out and leave Iraq to the Iraqis."
Husaybah, a poor Sunni Arab town of about 30,000 people, is the first stop in a network of communities that the U.S. military suspects al-Qaida of using to smuggle fighters, weapons and explosives from Syria down the Euphrates valley to Baghdad and other cities.
Many Husaybah residents are believed to fled the town after weeks of fighting between Iraqi tribes that support the insurgents and those that back the government.
The U.S. military says foreign fighters comprise only a small percentage of the insurgent ranks, which also include supporters of Saddam Hussein and Sunni Arabs opposed to the Americans and their Shiite and Kurdish allies.
However, foreign Islamic extremists are blamed for many of the spectacular suicide attacks that have killed hundreds of Iraqis in recent months. And foreign extremists are seen as more likely to continue the fight regardless of whether Iraqi Sunnis gain a measure of political power in the coming vote.
Most Sunni Arabs boycotted the Jan. 30 election of Iraq's current interim parliament, but many members of the minority voted in the Oct. 15 referendum that adopted the country's new constitution. Many Sunnis also plan to vote in the Dec. 15 ballot, hoping to increase the low number of seats they control in the National Assembly now dominated by Shiites and Kurds.
In Baghdad, Fakhri al-Qaisi, a prominent Sunni politician running on a hardline ticket was shot Saturday as he was driving home. Doctors at Yarmouk Hospital reported him in critical condition.
Meanwhile, suspected insurgents shot and killed a Palestinian working as a security guard in Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad, police said. Insurgents frequently target Iraqis and others working for the Americans.
Al-Qaida in Iraq warned this week that foreign diplomats should leave Iraq or face attacks. The militant group also threatened to kill two kidnapped Moroccan Embassy employees who disappeared Oct. 20 while driving to Baghdad from Jordan.
On Saturday, Arabic language Al-Arabiya TV showed interviews with the families of the Moroccans, begging for their release.
"I plead with my brothers, the Muslim mujahedeen in the name of the Islamic law and in the name of justice, because Abdelkrim is a religious man," said Leqaa Abbas, wife of embassy staff member Abdelkrim el-Mouhafidi
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- A suicide bomber blew up his vehicle at a checkpoint south of Baghdad and killed four American soldiers Monday, the military said. The U.S. command also announced five soldiers from an elite unit were charged with kicking and punching Iraqi detainees.
The suicide attack came as U.S. and Iraqi troops battled al-Qaida-led militants for a third day in Husaybah, a town on the Syrian border that the military describes as a major entry point for foreign fighters. One Marine has died there, the U.S. command said Monday.
Al-Qaida in Iraq warned the Iraqi government to halt the offensive in Husaybah within 24 hours or see "the earth ... shake beneath their feet."
"Let them know that the price will be very heavy," said an Internet statement purportedly issued by al-Qaida, which has been blamed for some of Iraq's worst terror bombings. The warning's authenticity could not be confirmed.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon announced a troop rotation for Iraq that will number at least 92,000 soldiers through 2008, although officials said it likely will be considerably larger.
The four soldiers who died in the suicide attack were assigned to the Army's Task Force Baghdad, the U.S. command said, offering no further details. Earlier Monday, the military said a U.S. soldier died Sunday in a roadside bombing near Tikrit.
The deaths brought to at least 2,051 the number of U.S. military personnel who have died since the Iraq war started in 2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 24 have died this month - most in roadside bombings.
The U.S. military said five soldiers from the Army's 75th Ranger Regiment were charged Saturday with assault, maltreatment and dereliction of duty during a Sept. 7 incident "in which three detainees were allegedly punched and kicked while awaiting movement to a detention facility." All five were reassigned to administrative duties, the statement said.
The Army said the alleged incident occurred in Baghdad and that the detainees, all men, suffered bruises "caused by striking with a closed and open hand, kicking, and hitting with an object described as a broomstick."
Allegations of prisoner abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad gained international notoriety in 2004. Nine Army reservists were convicted in that scandal.
The announcement of fresh abuse charges came as President Bush defended U.S. interrogation practices in the war on terrorists and lobbied against a congressional drive to outlaw torture.
The newly announced troop rotation is smaller than the one currently in Iraq, but a Pentagon spokesman, Lt. Col. Barry Venable, said no decisions have been made to reduce troops levels next year.
The U.S. has maintained a roughly 138,000-strong troop level in Iraq throughout the year, expanding it to 160,000 this fall because of the Oct. 15 Iraqi constitutional referendum and Dec. 15 election.
Monday's announcement did not include any Marine Corps units, although they apparently will be added later.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said conditions in Iraq in coming months would determine any changes in U.S. force levels.
In a statement Monday on the Husaybah fighting, the Marines said American and Iraqi troops were trying to flush out insurgents in mosques, schools and other public buildings but did not say how much of the town had been secured.
The statement said at least 36 insurgents had been killed since the assault began Saturday in the town 200 miles northwest of Baghdad. A Marine commander gave the same figure Sunday night.
"Our strategy is basically to kill the insurgents when we come across them," Marine Capt. Conlon Carabine told CNN on Monday.
Carabine said U.S. and Iraqi troops would establish a long-term presence in the town after rooting out the insurgents.
A Marine statement said three insurgents disguised as women tried to enter a camp for displaced civilians in Husaybah on Monday but were killed by Iraqi guards who spotted their weapons. The statement also said Marines found the booby-trapped body of an insurgent in a school.
In Baghdad, a Sunni Arab politician, Adnan al-Dulaimi, urged U.S. and Iraqi forces to halt military offensives in Sunni towns like Husaybah, saying that would help encourage disaffected Sunnis to vote in elections next month.
Iraq's insurgency is primarily based within the Sunni Arab minority, which was the dominant group during Saddam Hussein's reign.
Al-Dulaimi said U.S. and Iraqi commanders should "halt their attacks against cities and take into consideration that innocent people should not be punished because of the actions of others."
He nonetheless urged Sunnis not to boycott the Dec. 15 legislative elections. The decision by many Sunnis to stay away from the polls during last January's vote enabled rival Shiites and Kurds to win an overwhelming majority in the current legislature.
"We will participate in the next elections in order to save Iraq, and I call upon all political entities not to boycott the elections," al-Dulaimi said.
Elsewhere, five people were killed and four were wounded Monday in east Baghdad when a mortar shell exploded near a club for members of the Turkomen ethnic minority, police said. It was unclear if the club was the target.
A roadside bomb killed six policemen and three civilians in the capital's southern Dora neighborhood, an insurgent stronghold, said Mohanad Jawad, an official at Yarmouk Hospital. Insurgents have targeted policemen and soldiers because they consider them agents for foreign troops.
In the northern city of Mosul, three gunmen burst into an Internet cafe and killed a journalist from the Turkomen minority, Ahmed Hussein al-Maliki, police said. The motive was unclear but journalists have been targeted in Mosul in the past.
A suicide car bomber exploded his vehicle near an Iraqi army unit responsible for guarding oil pipelines south of Kirkuk, killing one Iraqi soldier, police said.
Three attacks in southern Iraq apparently targeted Japanese troops, injuring a policeman and a taxi driver, the Kyodo News agency reported. Japan has some 600 non-combat troops in Samawah working on humanitarian projects
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Donnerstag, 10. November 2005, 8.14 Uhr
Bei einem Selbstmordanschlag in der irakischen Hauptstadt Bagdad sind mindestens 33 Menschen getötet worden, wie die Polizei mitteilte. Der Anschlag ereignete sich in der Nähe eines Restaurants, in dem viele Polizisten gerade eine Frühstückspause einlegten. 19 Menschen sollen verletzt worden sein. Nach Polizeiangaben waren zwei Selbstmordattentäter an dem Anschlag beteiligt.
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Four police officers were among the dead in a bombing apparently targeting an Iraqi police patrol in the city, located about 40 miles (64 kilometers) north of the capital. Baquba often has been the scene of sectarian violence and attacks on Iraqi security forces.
In other deadly violence Wednesday, two car bombs killed at least five Iraqi civilians and wounded 25 others, the U.S. military said.
The blasts went off near the Al Shab police station and the next-door Al Sharoofi Mosque in the Adhamiya district.
Neither building was damaged, the military said.
Meanwhile, a driver for an Education Ministry official was gunned down in Baghdad's Shula neighborhood, Iraqi police said.
A Sudanese administrative attaché for the Sudanese Embassy also was shot dead while driving his car Wednesday morning in Baghdad, Iraqi emergency police said.
Earlier Wednesday, a U.S.-led airstrike in western Iraq destroyed what was believed to be an al Qaeda in Iraq terrorist weapons cache in a village near Qaim along the Syrian border, the military said.
Also Wednesday, a U.S. Marine died of wounds he received earlier this week in a roadside bomb attack in Anbar province west of Baghdad, a military statement said.
The number of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq war stands at 2,058.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Friday, stopping in the mostly Sunni Arab town of Mosul to urge Iraqis to participate in upcoming elections. Three U.S. troops were reported killed in combat operations.
Two U.S. soldiers died after being hit by small-arms fire Thursday during combat operations in Khaldiyah, 75 miles west of Baghdad, the military said. The soldiers were members of an army unit assigned to the 2nd Marine Division, operating in western Iraq.
In separate violence along the Syrian border, another Marine attached to the 2nd Division was killed Thursday by a roadside bomb in Karabilah, 200 miles west of Baghdad, another military statement said. The mMrine died in Operation Steel Curtain, a major push to take control of the Syrian border.
The names of the deceased and their unit were being withheld pending notification of next of kin.
As of Friday, Nov. 11, 2005, at least 2,059 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
Three Iraqi police were killed Friday when their vehicle was ambushed near Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, officers at a regional command center said.
Rice arrived the day after a suicide bomber killed 35 people at a Baghdad restaurant favored by police, and a car bomb killed seven at an Iraqi army recruiting center to the north. More than 30 people were wounded.
Elsewhere on Thursday, Iraqi troops along the Iranian border found 27 decomposing bodies, unidentified victims of suspected sectarian death squads.
The soldier says the Iraqi security at the scene did a good job of managing the situation.
"I want to talk about the importance of reaching across sectarian lines," Rice said on her visit to the northern Iraqi city.
U.S. forces reported a raid Thursday on an insurgent cell responsible for suicide bombings. Five men were detained and seven were killed, including one wearing a vest loaded with explosives,a statement said.
In the deadliest bombing in Baghdad since Sept. 19, a suicide bomber blew himself up in a restaurant Thursday morning when officers usually stop in for breakfast. Police Maj. Falah al-Mohammedawi said 35 officers and civilians died and 25 were wounded.
Al-Qaida in Iraq posted an Internet claim that it staged the attack in retaliation for U.S. and Iraqi operations near the Syrian border. Earlier, it claimed responsibility for Wednesday night's deadly hotel bombings in neighboring Jordan, linking those blasts to the conflict in Iraq.
Samiya Mohammed, who lives near the restaurant, said she rushed out when she heard the explosion.
"There was bodies, mostly civilians, and blood everywhere inside the place. This is a criminal act that only targeted and hurt innocent people having their breakfast," she said.
There were no Americans in the area, she said. "I do not understand why most of the time it is the Iraqis who are killed," she added.
On Sept. 19, a car bomb ripped through a market in a poor Shiite Muslim neighborhood on the eastern outskirts of Baghdad, killing at least 30 people and wounding 38.
Thursday's other big attack came in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, 80 miles north of the capital, where a car bomb blew up in the midst of men outside an Iraqi army recruiting center. Seven were killed and 13 wounded, police Capt. Hakim al-Azawi said.
The men were former officers during Saddam's regime, Azawi said.
Last week, Iraq's defense minister invited officers of Saddam's army up to the rank of major to enlist in the new Iraqi army. It was an overture to disaffected Sunni Arab ex-soldiers, many of whom joined the insurgency after the Americans abolished the Iraqi armed forces in 2003.
In another sign of the country's sectarian and criminal violence, Iraqi soldiers found the decomposing bodies of 27 people near Jassan, a town close to the border with Iran, Col. Ali Mahmoud said. They were not immediately identified.
Others bodies have been found in the area, and officials suspect death squads from the Shiite majority, the Sunni minority and criminal gangs are responsible for the killings.
At least 653 bodies have been found since Iraq's interim government was formed April 28, according to an Associated Press count.
The identities of many are never determined, but at least 116 are known to be Sunni Arabs, 43 Shiites and one Kurd. Some are likely victims of crimes, including kidnappings, which are rampant in some cities and as big a threat to Iraqis as political violence.
Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, a senior U.S. military officer in Iraq, told reporters Thursday that U.S. and Iraqi troops in Husaybah killed 37 insurgents, arrested 165 suspected insurgents and found 28 weapons caches.
"We have indeed seen a reduction in the number of suicide attacks in Baghdad," Lynch said, adding that he believed the operation along the Syrian border was an important factor.
He said a key component of the operation was the occupation of towns by Iraqi forces once combat operations are finished.
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Saturday, November 12, 2005; Posted: 6:00 a.m. EST (11:00 GMT)
(CNN) -- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has made a surprise visit to Iraq, his first since the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion, arriving amid tight security as a car bomb killed four women at a Baghdad market.
While in Baghdad, Annan is scheduled to meet Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari and other government officials, the U.N. said.
On Friday, Annan visited the Grand Hyatt and Radisson hotels in Amman -- two sites struck by suicide bombers on Wednesday. A third hotel was also targeted. Fifty-seven people were killed in the bombings and more than 90 injured.
After visiting the sites, Annan expressed his solidarity with Jordan's King Abdullah II and renewed his call to the U.N.'s member states "to agree on a comprehensive convention against terrorism."
"It can be done, and it is essential that this convention be adopted by the end of the year," Annan said.
Annan's unannounced visit to Iraq is follows a surprise trip by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Mosul and Baghdad on Friday.
Meanwhile, four Iraqi civilians -- all of them women -- were killed and 40 wounded by a car bomb Saturday in a busy Baghdad market, police said. The bomb in a parked car was remotely detonated about 11 a.m. (0800 GMT) in the Ameen al-Thanya neighborhood of eastern Baghdad.
Earlier, Arabic-language news network Al-Arabiya reported that Saddam Hussein's former deputy, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, has died. The report quoted a Baath Party statement.
CNN has not been able to confirm the death, and previous reports of Ibrahim's death or capture have proven to be unfounded. Al-Arabiya gave no details on how or where he died. (Watch: Who is Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri? -- 1:30)
Ibrahim was the most senior member of the former regime still at large and had been an insurgent leader. He is sixth on the U.S. military's list of the 55 most-wanted Iraqis, with a $10 million reward offered for his capture. (Reward offered)
Elsewhere in Iraq on Saturday police commandos raided the center of Baquba, detaining 210 suspected terrorists, including the city's mayor, a city council and a Diyala University official, the unit commander said.
Khalid al-Sanjari, city mayor of Baquba, was among those detained, as was Dr. Ayad al-Ajeeli, deputy dean of Diyala University's College of Education and a member of the Islamic Party, and Sheikh Mohammed Kamil, a city council member and a senior member of the Islamic Party, Maj. Gen. Mohammed Hasan of the Interior Ministry and the brigade commander told CNN.
The Islamic Party issued a statement condemning the raids and detention of Sunnis in Baquba. One of those detained, the party said in the statement, was a party member who holds the position of deputy chairman of Baquba's courthouse.
The Ministry of Interior's police commandos, Wolf Brigade, began the raid on the Tahreer neighborhood at about 6:30 a.m., Hasan said. The operation on the neighborhood ended about three hours later, he said, and the brigade went on to raid the town of Kan'an in eastern Baquba.
"We were very well received by the people of Baquba," Hasan said. "People are fully cooperating, providing us with all the information needed to capture all terrorists. We came upon the request of the residents of the city, and we shall remain here until we clean the city from all the terrorists."
During the raid, roads in and out of Baquba were blocked, and there was almost no traffic inside the city.
Marines frustrated
Meanwhile, U.S. Marines and Iraqi soldiers Friday battled an unseen enemy -- the handmade bombs that the the military calls improvised explosive devices -- on day seven of a major anti-insurgent offensive in northwestern Iraq.
Five Marines were injured when they stepped on a pressure plate, detonating a hidden device, according to CNN's Arwa Damon, who is embedded with U.S. troops taking part in Operation Steel Curtain.
In northwestern Iraq, Marines are becoming frustrated because insurgents have vanished and left hidden in their wake a large number of handmade bombs.
One was discovered when Marines spotted what looked like a small bunker along a main road. Inside was a switch hooked to a wireless telephone. Wires leading from the switch led to a crater beneath the road filled with artillery shells and propane tanks.
Marines said the device was in a crater that had once been used to hide a bomb. The insurgents refilled the hole with explosives and covered it with asphalt.
The Marines dug out the materials and detonated them in a massive explosion.
Advances through western Karabila slowed to a crawl as troops picked through a minefield of handmade bombs.
One Marine commander called the bombs a "very effective enemy," saying they "can lay in wait for days, months and years."
Marines found two bomb-making factories a few hundred yards apart filled with supplies including electronics, explosives and wires, along with propane tanks and mortar rounds primed to explode. The troops also found sniper rifles and a vest similar to those used by suicide bombers.
During the first phase of Operation Steel Curtain, troops focused on Husayba, a town thought to have been used by insurgents as a base -- and a conduit into and out of Syria. Major sweeps there ended Monday.
Marines entered Karabila early Thursday afternoon, discovering and detonating a car bomb and a warehouse that had been wired to explode. (Full story)
Operation Spear also pushed through Karabila in June. But the U.S. military says that the latest operation will be followed by placement of a permanent Iraqi Army presence in Karabila, as was done in Husayba.
Rice visits
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made surprise visits to the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and the capital, Baghdad, during a tour of the Middle East to promote democracy.
After arriving in Mosul early Friday from Bahrain, Rice appealed for Iraqis to bridge their sectarian differences before the elections on December 15. (Watch: A wish and a warning from Rice -- 2:06)
"The United States is not going to support any particular political candidate," news agencies quoted Rice as telling reporters traveling with her.
"I want to talk about the importance of reaching across the sectarian divide, and the future of Iraq has to be one which includes everyone," she was quoted as saying.
Rice said she delivered the same message of unity to Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi during their meeting in Washington this week.
The once-dominant Sunni Arab minority boycotted U.S.-backed attempts to establish a representative government in Iraq and last month voted against a national constitution.
America's top diplomat began her Iraq visit by meeting with political leaders in the majority-Sunni city of Mosul, including the U.S. ambassador to Baghdad, Zalmay Khalilzad.
In her second visit to Iraq as secretary of state, Rice then traveled to Baghdad for meetings with Iraqi and U.S. military leaders as well as embassy officials.
Rice arrived in Iraq the day after a series of attacks in the Iraqi capital on police and civilians, including a suicide bombing at a restaurant that killed at least 34 people, Iraqi police said. (Full story)
Other developments
President Bush on Friday accused critics of the Iraq war of distorting the events that led to the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, saying Democrats viewed the same intelligence and came to similar conclusions. Democrats responded immediately -- and angrily -- to Bush's comments. (Full story)
Two U.S. soldiers were killed Friday and two others were injured in a vehicular accident during a combat logistical patrol northwest of Kirkuk. Two other U.S. soldiers died Thursday from small arms fire near al-Khalidiya, the military said Friday. The deaths bring the number of U.S. service members killed in Iraq to 2,065.
The bodies of two unidentified civilians were found in separate locations Friday in Baghdad. Both had their hands tied behind their backs and were blindfolded. They had been shot in the head execution-style, Baghdad emergency police said.
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Die von den USA geführten multinationalen Streitkräfte werden ihre Truppen im Irak nach den Worten des irakischen Vizepräsidenten Adel Abdul Mahdi wahrscheinlich im nächsten Jahr reduzieren.
Treffen mit Rumsfeld<
Er habe die Möglichkeiten eines Teilabzugs mit US-Verteidigungsminister Donald Rumsfeld erörtert und Übereinstimmung über den künftigen Kurs erzielt, sagte Mahdi gestern nach einem Treffen mit Rumsfeld in Dearborn im US-Bundesstaat Michigan.
Er sei optimistisch, dass die irakischen Truppen mit der Situation zurechtkämen. Die USA haben 150.000 Soldaten im Irak stationiert, mehr als 2000 wurden bisher getötet.
Wahlen im Dezember
Der irakische Vizepräsident sagte zudem, er wünsche sich mehr politisches Engagement von Seiten der irakischen Bevölkerung. Die Regierung hoffe auf 70 Prozent Beteiligung bei den anstehenden Wahlen.
Die Iraker sollen am 15. Dezember über ein Parlament abstimmen. Mahdi gilt als aussichtsreicher Kandidat für das Amt des Ministerpräsidenten. Für morgen ist ein Treffen mit dem britischen Premierminister Tony Blair geplant.
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Tausende Orte im Irak durch Krieg und Deponien mit Giften verseucht.
Im Irak sind als Folge der Kampfhandlungen im ganzen Land unzählige Gebiete mit Giften, chemischem und radioaktivem Abfall verseucht.
Quasi als Erstmaßnahme beginnt nun das Umweltprogramm der Vereinten Nationen (UNEP) ein Projekt zur Sanierung der am stärksten betroffenen Gebiete. Vorausgegangen war diesem Schritt eine umfassende Erhebung verseuchter "Hot Spots" in dem Land.
"Wir stehen ganz am Anfang"
Mit den Arbeiten würde nun in Kürze - "trotz der prekären Sicherheitslage" - auf einem Industriegelände südlich von Bagdad begonnen, teilte die UNEP vor kurzem in Genf mit. Das sei allerdings nicht mehr als die "Spitze eines Eisbergs".
Der irakische Umweltministerin Nermeen Othman erklärte: "Wir stehen ganz am Anfang." Um die Tausenden verseuchten Orte zu säubern, sei der Irak auf die Hilfe der internationalen Gemeinschaft angewiesen.
Tonnen von Blausäure-Müll
Ganz oben auf der Agenda soll ab Dezember die Säuberung des Geländes der Metallfabrik El Kadissija nahe Bagdads stehen.
Dutzende von Giftstoffen wurden von Chemikern auf dem Fabriksgelände gefunden - darunter Tonnen von hochgiftigem blausäurehältigem Abfall. Das Risiko für die Bevölkerung sei rund um das Gelände "enorm", schreibt die UNEP in ihrem Bericht.
Die 1980 errichtete Fabrik umfasst eine Gelände von 50 Hektar und war 2003 bombardiert und anschließend geplündert worden. Die Sanierung soll rund ein halbes Jahr in Anspruch nehmen.
Pestizidlager bombardiert
In der Stadt Suwaira, rund 50 Kilometer südöstlich der Hauptstadt, wurde 2003 ein riesiges Pestizidlager getroffen.
Auf dem vier Hektar großen Gelände waren über 30 Jahre hinweg Schädlingsbekämpfungsmittel abgemischt und und gelagert worden. Proben wiesen DDT und giftige Chloride nach. Heute lagern dort rund 100 Kubikmeter Giftmüll.
Ein ähnliches Szenario zeigte sich den Experten im Raffineriechemikalien-Lager Chan Dari, 30 km westlich von Bagdad. Das Lager brannte 2003.
Sorgenkind Waffendeponie
Sorgen bereitet den Umweltexperten aber vor allem eine Deponie 15 km südlich von Bagdad, auf der seit 2003 Waffen der alten irakischen Armee zerstört und entsorgt wurden.
Heute lagern dort Tonnen explosiven Materials in nicht gezündeten Granaten, Raketen und Massen von Munitionsschrott.
Die Anlage sei eine "ernsthafte Gefahr für die Bevölkerung", heißt es seitens der UNO-Experten.
Verseuchung durch Uranmunition
Schätzungen zufolge hat der zweite Irak-Krieg auch zwischen 1.000 und 2.000 Tonnen an uranhältigen Munitionsresten aus britischen und US-Beständen hinterlassen. Im ersten Golfkrieg dürften es rund 350 Tonnen gewesen sein.
Diese spezielle Munition, die zur Härtung von Geschoßen abgereichertes (schwach radioaktives) Uran enthält, wird unter anderem für so genannte panzerbrechende Waffen eingesetzt.
Gesundheitsexperten warnen immer wieder davor, dass die Munition schwere Gesundheitsschäden bis hin zu Krebserkrankungen auslösen könnte. Nach dem Krieg in Ex-Jugoslawien wurden entsprechende Folgeerkrankungen als "Balkan-Syndrom" bekannt.
"Kriege haben Wunden hinterlassen"
Abgesehen von diesen und anderen spezifischen Problemen sei die Umweltsituation in dem Land im Allgemeinen bedenklich, so UNEP-Direktor Klaus Töpfer.
"Kriege, Konflikte, Instabilität und fehlendes Umweltengagement unter dem vorherigen Regime haben ihre Wunden in der irakischen Bevölkerung und Umwelt hinterlassen."
Mit der Ausbildung irakischer Experten soll sich das nun in Zukunft ändern. Sie sollen langfristig die Sanierung der Altlasten selbständig vorantreiben können.
Die Kosten für die erste Phase des Projekts belaufen sich laut UNEP auf rund 40 Mio. Dollar (34,1 Mio. Euro).
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A roadside bomb killed two U.S. Marines during "combat operations" in Amiriya, the Marines said.
The military statement gave no details about the attack, which occurred Saturday, the same day a U.S. soldier died in a vehicle accident near Rawa.
Rawa is 140 miles (209 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad in Anbar province, near the Syrian border.
Since the Iraq war began, 2,068 U.S. service members have died, 39 in November.
On Sunday, insurgents killed one civilian and wounded five Iraqi soldiers in two attacks.
The civilian was killed when a roadside bomb missed an Iraqi police patrol in Baghdad, police said. The blast missed the police, who were in the eastern Baghdad neighborhood of Jadeeda.
In Kirkuk, 180 miles (290 kilometers) north of Baghdad, a roadside bomb wounded five Iraqi soldiers on morning patrol.
Meanwhile, three bodies and one man who was in extremely critical condition were found late Saturday, police said. The men, who appeared to have been tortured and shot in the head, had their hands tied behind their backs and had been blindfolded.
The four were found in the northwestern Baghdad neighborhood of Shu'la, police said.
Another apparently tortured body was found in western Baghdad.
Iraq: UK troops may leave in 2006
British troops could leave Iraq by the end of 2006, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has told a TV news channel.
"We don't want British forces forever in Iraq. Within one year -- I think at the end of 2006 -- Iraqi troops will be ready to replace British forces in the south," Talabani told ITV, which released details of the interview in advance of the broadcast.
Britain has about 8,000 soldiers in Iraq, many of them in the second-largest city of Basra. London has said it will start to pull out its troops as soon as local forces think they can maintain security.
Britain's top army general, Gen. Sir Mike Jackson, said Sunday that Talabani's timetable was "realistically possible" but warned against giving a firm date for a pullout. (Full story)
Husayba protest
About 500 residents of Husayba, site of a recent weeklong battle against insurgents, protested outside the U.S. military's main camp Sunday.
U.S. Marine Capt. Rich Pitchford said he met with the 10-member makeshift city council and would update them about their requests at a Monday meeting. Residents were asking for permission to recover bodies and bury the dead as well as food and the restoration of essential services.
Although the protest was peaceful, many residents were agitated and angry.
One of the 10 leaders, who said he was the group's spokesman, said the residents will believe in U.S. forces if Pitchford's promises are fulfilled.
Other demonstrators were more skeptical. One man pointed out that everything in the city was fine in the eight months before Operation Steel Curtain. Another asked why U.S. and Iraqi forces needed to level so many buildings just to round up a few terrorists.
"There are families that need help," said Karim Ayaj, an Arabic teacher at a Husayba school. "We have not had food supplies and rations for at least four months now." He believes the most important step would be to open the road between the Qaim region, where Husayba is located, and Baghdad. About 28,000 people are living in palm groves and makeshift camps outside the city, he claimed.
Resident Tamil el-Kubeysi was angry about the lack of food and water. "We are a rich country," he said. "We are the country of two rivers. We never would have even dreamed that we'd end up in a situation like this."
U.S. and Iraqi forces, meanwhile, have set up two firm bases alongside the camp and have begun patrolling Husayba.
The offensive, Operation Steel Curtain, was launched in Husayba on November 5 and has continued into the nearby city of Karabila. The offensive was aimed at wresting control of the area from insurgents and foreign fighters.
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Mit der Ausbildung von Polizei und Sicherheitskräften werde daran gearbeitet, die erforderlichen Bedingungen für einen Abzug zu erfüllen, sagte Iraks Präsident Dschalal Talabani am Wochenende. Sein Stellvertreter Adel Abdul Mahdi äußerte sich ähnlich zuversichtlich. Als nächster großer Schritt im Zuge des Demokratisierungsprozesses im Irak steht in knapp einem Monat die Parlamentswahl an. UN-Generalsekretär Kofi Annan, der den Golfstaat am Wochenende erstmals seit dem Sturz Saddam Husseins besuchte, rief die einzelnen Bevölkerungsgruppen mit Blick auf die Zukunft des Landes zur Aussöhnung auf.
Talabani äußerte sich insbesondere zu den rund 8000 britischen Truppen, die vorrangig im Süden des Landes stationiert sind. "Innerhalb eines Jahres - ich denke gegen Ende 2006 - werden die irakischen Truppen in der Lage sein, die britischen Kräfte abzulösen", sagte er dem Sender ITV am Sonntag. Einen sofortigen Teilabzug der US-geführten Einheiten lehnte er allerdings ab. Das würde den Irak in den Bürgerkrieg führen, sagte er mit Blick auf die anhaltenden Anschläge der überwiegend sunnitischen Aufständischen. Zuvor hatte Talabani bei seinem Besuch in Rom angedeutet, dass die Koalitionstruppen möglicherweise schon bald verabschiedet werden könnten. Italien dankte er für die Unterstützung in dem Land mit 2900 Soldaten.
Auch Mahdi brachte bei einem Treffen mit US-Verteidigungsminister Donald Rumsfeld einen Teilabzug im kommenden Jahr ins Spiel. Er und Rumsfeld seien optimistisch, dass der Aufbau der irakischen Truppen so verlaufe, dass sie die Situation meistern könnten, sagte Mahdi während seiner US-Reise vor Journalisten. Die USA haben insgesamt 150.000 Soldaten im Irak stationiert. Mehr als 2000 Soldaten kamen ums Leben. Die US-Regierung lehnte es bislang ab, einen konkreten Zeitplan für einen Truppenabzug zu nennen, um die Aufständischen im Irak nicht zu stärken. Auch das britische Militär warnte wiederholt vor der Nennung eines festen Termins.
ANNAN: "DEN IRAK BEFRIEDEN"
Die Regierung hofft bei den anstehenden Wahlen nach eigenen Angaben auf eine Wahlbeteiligung von etwa 70 Prozent. Bei den vergangenen Wahlen im Januar waren vor allem die Sunniten den Urnen in großen Teilen ferngeblieben. Zudem hatten sie zuletzt überwiegend gegen die von Schiiten und Kurden auf den Weg gebrachte Verfassung gestimmt. Annan mahnte in Bagdad nun, die politische Entwicklung des Golfstaates müsse so sein, dass sich alle Bevölkerungsgruppen vertreten fühlten. Mit Blick auf die beinahe täglichen Anschläge der Aufständischen sagte er: "Diese Region hier, insbesondere der Irak, hat zu sehr unter terroristischen Angriffen gelitten."
Annan, der nicht nur mit Regierungsvertretern zusammenkam, sondern auch Mitarbeiter der Vereinten Nationen (UN) traf, gedachte zudem den 22 Kollegen, die bei einem Anschlag auf das UN-Hauptquartier in Bagdad im Jahr 2003 ums Leben gekommen waren. "So schwierig es auch sein mag, wir müssen unsere Arbeit hier fortführen und alles tun, um den Irak zu stabilisieren und zu befrieden", betonte er.
Auch am Sonntag kam es in der Hauptstadt wieder zu einem Attentat. Nur unweit des hochgesicherten Regierungsviertels schlug eine Granate in ein Wohnhaus ein. Nach Angaben der Sicherheitskräfte wurde jedoch niemand getötet oder verwundet. Zum Zeitpunkt des Angriffs hielt der Sekretär des nationalen Sicherheitsrates von Russland, Igor Iwanow, gerade eine Pressekonferenz mit dem irakischen Ministerpräsidenten Ibrahim Dschaafari ab. Am Vortag waren bei einem Autobombenanschlag in Bagdad nach offiziellen Angaben fünf Menschen getötet und 20 weitere verletzt worden.
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Die meisten der Attentäter stammten aus Saudi-Arabien, sagte Mowaffak al-Rubaie am Sonntag vor Journalisten in Kairo. Daneben seien auch Araber aus Syrien, dem Libanon, Jordanien, Ägypten und Algerien für Anschläge im Irak verantwortlich. Sie alle erhielten in Syrien logistische Unterstützung und eine entsprechende Ausbildung. Von der Regierung in Damaskus forderte Rubaie ein schnelles Handeln. "Wir wollen eine politische Entscheidung, damit das Einsickern von Selbstmordattentätern von aus Syrien in den Irak gestoppt wird."
Nicht nur die irakische Regierung, auch die USA und Großbritannien drängen Syrien seit langem dazu, seine Grenzen besser zu überwachen. Auch dem Iran, dem östlichen Nachbarn des Irak, werfen sie vor, nicht genug zu tun, um das Eindringen von Extremisten in den Irak zu verhindern. Syriens Präsident Baschar al-Assad wies die Kritik wiederholt zurück. Sein Land unterstütze keine Aufständischen und wünsche sich einen stabilen Irak. Allerdings bekäme seine Regierung für die Sicherung der Grenzen auch keinerlei Hilfe von den USA, kritisierte er.
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Wenn die Linke den Israel-Hass in der arabischen Welt nicht verstehen kann, hat sie als emanzipatorische Kraft abgedankt.
Von Walter Hanser
11/05
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Werner Pirker winkt in seinem junge-Welt-Kommentar vom 29.10. zu der Israel-feindlichen Propaganda im Iran bloß ab. Das ist nichts Neues, so schreibt er, „eh und je“ wurde das Existenzrecht des Staates Israel von allen möglichen, von Pirker in einen Topf geschmissenen Kräften im Nahen Osten abgelehnt. Pirker will beschwichtigen: zum einen will er den vom Staatschef des Iran lancierten Staatsantisemitismus als diskussionswürdigen, in der arabischen Region nun mal dazugehörigen und ihm darüber hinaus honorig erscheinenden Antizionismus darstellen. Zum anderen mag er die zu tiefst antiemanzipatorische, ja konterrevolutionäre Strategie dieses Manövers nicht zu erkennen und sieht in ihm einen – von ihm als positiv erachteten – Schachzug gegen die USA.
Neu ist das in der Tat alles nicht. Erschreckend ist dennoch, dass in dem Aufruf zur Tilgung Israels von der Landkarte kein Antisemitismus erkannt wird und dass antisemitischer „Antizionismus“ und linker-emanzipatorischer Antizionismus in einen Topf geschmissen wird. Was Minimalkonsens einer Linken sein sollte, muss also nochmals aufgelistet werden. Israel steht im arabischen Raum für Fortschritt und Entwicklung im westlichen Sinne. Wie die Hof- und Schutzjuden, die den kaiserlichen Schutz genossen, des Kaisers Militär finanzierten und den ausgebeuteten Bauern bei Bedarf als Sündenböcke angeboten wurden, hat der Staat Israel im arabischen Raum die Funktion eines Sündenbocks eingenommen. Israel, der frühere Brückenkopf des Imperialismus, steht für Westen, Liberalismus und Dekadenz. Diejenigen, die heutzutage gegen Israel Stimmung machen, folgen ganz ähnlichen Motiven wie die klassischen Judenfeinde und Antisemiten. An das sich durchsetzende Wertgesetz kamen die judenfeindlichen Bauern damals nicht ran, an den Kaiser und König, vom Pfaffen gesegnet, trauten sie sich nicht ran. Später wiederholte sich dies im modernen Antisemitismus. Wie sieht es im Iran aus?
Ganz ähnlich, erschreckend ähnlich - nur dass der Pfaffe hier Mullah heisst und die Bevölkerung längst durch alle möglichen Stadien des sich durchsetzenden Wertgesetzes hindurchgehen musste. Die aktuell vom Iran auf leisen Sohlen betriebene Privatisierungspolitik soll durch populistische Parolen und anti-westliche Propaganda übermalt werden. Der Präsident mag „aus dem Volke“ kommen, er ist jedoch ein Mann des Staates und des ökonomischen, politischen und religiösen Gewaltapparats geworden. Er ist also ein Populist, der im Auftrag der Konterrevolution die ideologische Verblendung, die auch unter den Leuten „von der Straße“ anzutreffen ist, aus Staatsräson zu bedienen weiß.
Das kapitalistische Weltsystem mit seinen blutigen Spielregeln von Verwertung, Unterdrückung und Vernichtung wird heute im ”Teufel USA und Israel” personalisiert, den Leuten geht es dadurch nicht besser – im Gegenteil. Arbeiterkämpfe, Frauenemanzipation und Jugendsubversion werden davon nicht beflügelt, sondern damit bekämpft. Der Antijudaismus und Antisemitismus in Polen Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts war genauso konterrevolutionär wie der heutige Israel-Hass in der arabischen Welt. Er schützt die Despoten und die lokale Herrschaft, genauso wie das Weltkapital und lenkt vom eigentlichen Feind, dem Kapitalismus als sozialem Verhältnis der Mehrwertauspressung, ab. Diese aktuelle Konterrevolution bedient sich der alten Propagandamittel des Antisemitismus, kein Wunder, dass auf der letzten Frankfurter Buchmesse Exemplare der „Protokolle der Weisen von Zion“ auftauchten – von iranischen Verlagen vertrieben. Kommunisten und Libertäre könnten das wissen.
Diejenigen, die es nicht wissen, scheinen schlechte Kommunisten zu sein oder sogar gar keine. Internationalistische Kommunisten wissen auch, dass linker Antizionismus etwas anderes ist (oder besser: einmal war) als Antisemitismus, sie könnten die Geschichte des Bund kennen. Stalinisten und nationalistische „Kommunisten“ können das nicht wissen, denn hinter ihrem „Antizionismus“ verbirgt sich Antisemitismus. Das müsste seit den antisemitischen Kampagnen gegen „Kosmopolitismus und Zionismus“ in der Sowjetunion bekannt sein. Wer jüdisch-orthodoxen Antizionismus – also irgendeine metaphysische Mucke -, linken wie rechten arabischen Nationalismus und marginale linke antizionistische Stimmen in Israel in einen Topf haut wie Werner Pirker, hat kein Interesse an einer emanzipatorischen Kritik des Bestehenden, sondern will einen Feind markieren, um den zu bekämpfen, man jeden Bündnispartner akzeptiert. Man stellt sich unweigerlich die Fragen, warum er nicht noch die in den arabischen Raum geflohenen Nazis, die nach 1945 beispielsweise nach Ägypten auswanderten, mit ihrem Judenhass in diese Aufzählung dazu nimmt. Es gibt in Israel in der Tat Antizionisten aus dem marginalen linksradikalen Spektrum von Anarchisten und Situationisten – sie sind antinationalistische Linksradikale, und als solche gehören sie zu einem kleinen internationalistischen Spektrum von antistaatlichen, herrschaftskritischen Radikalen, die alle an einer universalistischen Aufhebungsperspektive festhalten. Es gibt auch kommunistische Antizionisten in Israel, die zuweilen ihren Staat mit Nazivokabeln belegen, jedoch in Stalin einen großartigen antifaschistischen Politiker sehen wollen. Mit letzteren werden libertäre Kommunisten, egal woher sie kommen, die gleichen Auseinandersetzungen führen müssen, wie mit allen anderen Stalinisten. Und es gibt das Problem, dass fast alle linken und linksradikalen Israelis, die sich als antizionistisch definieren, mit ihrer Staatskritik vor den Palästinensern Halt machen. Dem Antiimperialismus und Dritt-Weltismus verpflichtet meinen sie, dass junge unterdrückte Nationalstaaten als Staaten autonom werden sollen, unterdrückte „Völker“ sich erstmal befreien müssen. Sie schlucken damit die gegen-revolutionäre Kategorie des „Volkes“. Das stellt seit Lenins Befreiungsnationalismus eine Sackgasse dar.
Bislang hat noch jede nationale Befreiung von „Fremdherrschaft“ zu neuer Herrschaft geführt. Pirker gibt den Antideutschen, die er aus ganz anderen Gründen nicht mag wie Linksradikale, genau das Futter, das sie brauchen – sie können genauso wenig wie er Israel-Kritik, die verschiedenen Varianten des Antizionismus und den Antisemitismus auseinander halten. Wie schon bei seinem Plädoyer für den Antiamerikanismus, stellt das jüngste anti-israelische Plädoyer von Pirker nur eines dar: es ist ein Symptom für eine im antiimperialistischen Milieu anzutreffende theoretische Verwahrlosung des Denkens, wenn nicht sogar für einen waschechten linken Antisemitismus. Den „großen und kleinen Satan“, die USA und Israel, als Hauptfeind der Menschheit auszugeben ist das Geschäft der Antiemanzipation und der Konterrevolution, das im Moment am aggressivsten in den arabischen Ländern des kapitalistischen Weltsystems betrieben wird. Diese historische Tendenz muss auch im „Herzen der Bestie“ bekämpft werden – sie braucht kein Sprachrohr in einer linken Tageszeitung.
Die vom Autor verfasste Serie "Benjamins Tigersprung: Geschichte des Linksradikalismus – kurzer Lehrgang", die in der jungen welt erschienen ist, lässt sich nachlesen unter: http://archiv.gesellschaftsanalyse.de/cgeschic/serie.html
einige verblendete hier, werden durch ideologieträger aus dem eigenen lager völlig bloßgestellt.
p.s.
ds, ich bin sicher nicht eurohasser.
aber es gibt sehr viele symphatieträger und seelenverwandte mit unserer ideologie.
mfg ds
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bis du mental so erregt, daß du nicht einmal ein simples wort mit 4 buchstaben, in der richtigen reihenfolge schreiben kannst.
vielleicht sollte es hirn heißen?
wäre quasi das selbe als wenn ich sage "kluger faschist" oder "sauberes schwein"....
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du lebst in einer scheinwelt.....
übrigens ist die nsdap doch seit 1945 verboten, also kann es gar keine physisch existenten nazis geben.
mal was anderes, diese partei nannte sich ja nationalsozialistisch, ist das der selbe sozialismus, wie ihn die angeblich neue "linke" verkörpert?
nsdap wurde verboten... daraus wurde in bayern die csu... weiß jeder.
warum nimmst du so oft was wort sed in den mund?? soweit ich weiß ging diese partei mit der wende ebenfalls ein.
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National: csu
Sozialismus: spd,"grüne",pds-linke-kommunisten
dachte ich es mir doch, bei den sogenannten linken hatte ich immer schon ein ungutes gefühl:)
die union müsste sich schämen auch nur ansatzweise das wort christlich zu verwenden.
ein schande für das christentum!