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Friday, April 24, 2009

Twin blasts rock Iraq, 76 killed

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Two suicide bombers wearing vests stuffed with explosives blew themselves up in separate attacks in Iraq on Thursday, killing 76 people.

Shortly after the two attacks, the authorities in Baghdad said they had arrested the purported leader of an Al Qaeda afmiated insurgent group, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi.

One of the attacks occurred in a crowded restaurant at lunchtime near Muqdadiya, 80 km northeast of Baghdad.

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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

‘It is the farewell kiss, you dog’

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“It’s a sign of a free society This is how .” US President George W. Bush described the “humiliating” incident in which a Iraqi journalist threw shoes at him in Baghdad.

Bush said he has seen a lot of weird things during his eight-year-long Presidency and that he would term the latest incident as “one of the weirdest”.

Television journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi, shouting “It is the farewell kiss, you dog”, threw two shoes at the President — one after another — during a news conference with Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Sunday “But I’m not insulted. I don’t . hold it against the government. I don’t think the Iraqi press corps as a whole is terrible. And so, the guy wanted to get on TV and he did. I don’t know what his beef is. But whatever it is I’m sure somebody will hear it,” the US President told ABC channel in Iraq.

Saddam lawyer to defend shoe attacker

Saddam Hussein’s former lawyer said on Monday that he was forming a team to defend the Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at Bush. “So far around 200 Iraqi and other lawyers, including Americans, have expressed willingness to defend the journalist for free,” the Amman-based Khalil alDulaimi told AFP.

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