After the Dog and Pony show in early April, Betrayus ordered his staff to compile a 'Dossier' on Iranian involvement in Iraq. With the MSM dutifully reporting Baghdad Bergner's repeated claims that al Sadr was being supplied by Iran and that caches of weapons and EFPs were found in Karbala...
POLITICS: Bogus Claim, al-Maliki Stall U.S. Plan on Iran Arms Analysis by Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, May 14 (IPS) - The government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki refused to endorse U.S. charges of Iranian involvement in arms smuggling to the Mahdi Army, and a plan to show off a huge collection...
Islamabad Paying tribute to Hazrat Syeda Zainab at her birth anniversary, speakers at a conference said that her courage to speak before a merciless ruler and the way she took forward the message of Islam made her a role model for present Muslim women. Poems reflecting upon the role played by...
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Pest control efforts for the Iraqi commercial date palm crop that began April 16, 2008, are now more than 74% complete. The total project covers approximately 166,500 acres in the Babil, Karbala, Najaf, Wasit, Baghdad and Diyala provi...
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Ten policemen, including one officer, were referred to the judiciary for abusing the law during raid operations, the Karbala police & operations chief said on Sunday. "We ordered the referral of ten policemen, including one officer, to the judiciary for abusing the law in dealing with human...
A plan to show some alleged Iranian-supplied explosives to journalists last week in Karbala and then destroy them was canceled after the United States realized none of them was from Iran. A U.S. ... military spokesman attributed the confusion to a misunderstanding that...
2008-05-10IRAQ: THE ELUSIVE IRANIAN WEAPONS By Tina Susman / Los Angeles Times There was something interesting missing from Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner's introductory remarks to journalists at his regular news briefing in Baghdad on Wednesday: the word "Iran," or any form of it. It was especially...
Karbala, May 8, (VOI) - Security forces on Thursday arrested leader of Shiite Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s al-Mahdi army’s special brigades and two of his aides during a security raid in central Karbala, a security official in Karbala said. Security forces detained the leader of al-Mahdi army’s...
Photo: IMC Improving life-saving management skills, International Medical Corps helps Karbala authorities to plan for devastating events. May 1, 2008, Baghdad, Iraq - International Medical Corps (IMC) in partnership with the governorate of Karbala kicked off a series of crisis management training...









