http://voanews.com/english/2006-10-20-voa19.cfm 15 Killed as Police, Shi'ite Militias Clash in Southern Iraq By VOA News 20 October 2006 Iraqi authorities say clashes between Shi'ite militias and Iraqi security forces have left 15 people dead in the southern city of Amara. Authorities said Friday at least 90 people have been injured in street battles between police and armed fighters from Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army. Militiamen destroyed three police stations in the city during the fighting that began overnight Thursday. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki sent an envoy to Amara to try to quell the unrest. A British military spokesman said British troops are ready to assist Iraqi forces if necessary. Iraqi and British officials described the situation as still tense but that a truce had been arranged. In other violence, Iraqi authorities say mortar fire in the town of Balad killed at least nine people. The mainly Shi'ite Muslim town in the Sunni Arab heartland north of Baghdad has been shaken by sectarian violence over the past week. Meanwhile, a U.S. military spokesman, Major-General William Caldwell, said Thursday that violence in the Iraqi capital has increased 22 percent in the first three weeks of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. He called the results of a highly touted security operation in Baghdad "disheartening." [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
