Iraq arrests Saudi terrorist bomber in Diyala Province
Tehran Times Political Desk
TEHRAN — A Saudi Arabian terrorist who had been attempting to plant a bomb in Diyala Province has been arrested and his three accomplices killed in a shootout with security forces, a senior Iraqi police official announced on Sunday.
Diyala Province Police Chief Abdul-Hussein al-Shemri said the Saudi national is being interrogated, the Voice of Iraq website reported.
The deadliest of three suicide attacks in the area on Thursday struck a restaurant filled with Iranian pilgrims. The toll in that attack rose to 57, with Iranians making up the majority of the dead
Iraqi Govt Outraged After Deadly US Raid
Two Dead Civilians and Public Protests Make US Raid Costly Indeed
by Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com, 26 April 2009
A pre-dawn US raid this morning in the Iraqi city of Kut left two civilians dead and several others captured. Hundreds of local residents took to the streets to condemn the raid, while Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki declared the attack a violation of the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between the US and Iraq. He ordered two Iraqi security officials arrested over it, demanded the release of the captives, and for the US to turn over those responsible for the raid to the courts.
As is so often the case the official press release from US forces remained far disconnected from reality. It alleged that those captured included a “financier” for a Shi’ite militant group and six other “associates.” It also perplexedly claimed they were captured without incident even while describing the killing of two people, one they determined was “hostile” while the other was a woman.