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  • Police killed in fresh Iraq attacks

    At least three police officers have been killed after gunmen attacked their station in northern Iraq, local officials say. They say another two policemen were wounded in the town of Rawa, some 260km (160 miles) north-west of Baghdad. Reports also say another seven policemen died in a separate attack in the nearby town of Haditha. The authorities have blamed a number of recent deadly attacks ...

  • Iraq racked by violence

    At least 16 people were killed across Iraq on Sunday as gunmen and Iraqi security forces clashed in several areas, police officials in Baghdad and Ramadi ...

  • Militants kill 10 Iraq policemen in checkpoint attacks

    Sectarian violence flares in Iraq Militants have killed at least 10 Iraqi policemen in a series of attacks on checkpoints in the West of the country, police and local officials said. Sectarian tensions in Iraq have been amplified by the conflict in neighbouring Syria, where mostly Sunni rebels are fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad who is backed by Shi'ite Iran. There was no ...

  • Paul Libya like Iraq

    The guarding of U.S. diplomatic outposts like the consulate Benghazi in Libya should be treated like Baghdad with more military force, Sen. Rand Paul said Sunday. Appearing on CNN's "State of the Union," the Kentucky Republican said his focus isn't on the Benghazi talking points, but on not guarding the outpost more heavily. That decision was a "tragic error," he ...

  • Iraq veering back to civil war as Shia rule with heavy hand

    Under Saddam Hussein, and his Sunni-minority regime, it was pure despotism, war and repressive violence that kept the country in one piece. But after the despot's fall, the three were supposed to come together in the new, "democratic" Iraq of America's ...

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Crumb [DVD]

Crumb [DVD]

Terry Zwigoffs Crumb is an absolutely disarming documentary and one of the very best of its kind. Ostensibly a film about the great counterculture artist Robert Crumb, whose obscenely hilarious and frequently antisocial cartoons both reflected and helped define the ideology of a generation of ... ...

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  • Three car bomb attacks leave 8 dead 50 wounded in southern Iraq

    BAGHDAD, April 29 (Xinhua) -- At least eight people were killed and 50 others injured when three car bomb attacks hit two cities in southern Iraq on Monday, an interior ministry source said. Two car bombs exploded in a market in Amarah, some 300 km southeast of Baghdad, killing six people and wounding 30 others, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. Another car bomb struck ...

  • Saddam still haunts us with a photography collection that displays the fear of post-war Iraqis

    former dictator Saddam Hussein has resounded in the minds of many Iraqis since his fall."His shadow is still following Iraqi society everywhere," says Iraqi Kurdish photographer Jamal Penjweny whose series "Saddam is Here" attempts to capture this thought."Saddam was dead but I felt as if he was still alive in the way people talked, lied, loved, dreamed and did ...

  • Arab Parliament condemns surge in terrorist attacks in Iraq.

    WAM CAIRO: The Arab Parliament on Saturday condemned the recent sharp rise in terror blasts in Iraq and emphasised that these attacks are unjustifiable and not acceptable in any heavenly religion as they seek to kill peaceful innocent people. The Speaker of the Arab Parliament, Ahmed Al Jarwan, in a press release, termed the bombings as "vicious, coward and sordid." On Friday, one ...

  • Iraq death toll stirs fears of civil war

    The death toll in Iraq from four consecutive days of violence has reached at least 140 people, stirring fears that rising sectarian conflicts could lead the country into civil war. Many Iraqis were in mourning on Sunday amid simmering tensions between the Sunni minority and Shia majority despite increased security patrols. In Baghdad, the presence of SWAT teams, army, police officers and ...

  • Iraq needs deep change to avoid sectarian war says paper

    WAM ABU DHABI: What Iraq needs desperately is a system of more decentralised governance, where Baghdad is not calling all the shots - and targeting political opponents. There is reason to believe that a system drawing on the principles of federalism, with stronger regional administrations, is one way that Sunnis, Shias and Kurds could find common cause, according to a local newspaper. ...

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