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Iraq Diaries IT WAS A FAIRLY QUIET DAY IN BAGHDAD Tom Fox, Electronic Iraq (23 May 2005)

In Baghdad today, four clerics (three Sunni and one Shi’a) were assassinated. The bodies of two other Sunni clerics who had been abducted last week were found. A suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle in the Abu Cher market killing nine Iraqi National Guard troops and injuring twenty-eight civilians. Two engineering students were killed when a bomb (or rocket) struck their classroom at a local school.

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Iraq Diaries DAILY LIFE IN BAGHDAD, FROM AFAR Dahr Jamail, Electronic Iraq (23 May 2005)

It’s coming apart at the seams now in Iraq. We saw on the news today that members of the Mehdi Army in the south, the militia of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, exchanged gunfire with members of the ING (Iraqi National Guard) who in the south are primarily, if not entirely composed of members of the Badr Army, also a Shia group. So now we have Shia fighting Shia.

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Iraq Diaries “MANY PEOPLE WERE WORKING WITH THE AMERICANS, SO I FELT IT WOULD BE OK.” Dahr Jamail, Electronic Iraq (20 May 2005)

Her name is Ahlam Abt Al-Hassan. Yesterday was the one year anniversary of when she was shot twice in the head by member of the Mehdi army while waiting for a taxi to go to her job with Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR) in Diwaniyah.

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News & Analysis RESPONSE TO DEATH PENALTY BEING USED TO CONTROL VIOLENCE Report, IRIN (23 May 2005)

BAGHDAD, 23 May 2005 (IRIN) – International human rights organisations have raised concern over the Iraqi prime ministers’ recent announcement that the death penalty would be implemented as a way to control ongoing violence and insurgency in the country.

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