Sudah cukup penyerangan para pejuang Irak ke arah pasukan AS, 
mereka hanya membantu membangun negara Irak dan menanam investasi di 
Irak. Masyarakat Irak sekarang sudah memiliki pemerintahan sendiri. 
Kenapa masalah diperbesarkan oleh beberapa umat Irak/teman teman yg 
membenci AS... sudah cukuplah... saya tidak pernah ingin mengharapkan 
permusuhan dan peperangan itu tidak perlu terjadi di Irak.

   tolonglah merasa selalu di depanNya demi perdamaian, keadilan, 
solusi dan kebersamaan. segala puji bagi Allah.

wassalam,

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Iraq Insurgents Clash With U.S. Forces 

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents clashed Friday with U.S. forces near 
Baghdad for the second time in as many days, and crews repairing a 
sabotaged crude oil pipeline expect to have full exports flowing by 
the end of next week. 

The patrol from the U.S. Army 1st Infantry came under attack about 
7:45 a.m. in the town of Buhriz, near Baqouba, said Maj. Neal 
O'Brien. Troops returned fire, killing two militants, he said. There 
were no U.S. casualties. 

U.S. helicopters hovered over buildings and cars gutted by fire. 
Masked gunmen held up rifles and rocket propelled grenades as they 
danced for the cameras. Women wailed in the streets. 

Baqouba, a largely Sunni Muslim area 35 miles north of Baghdad that 
formed a core of support for Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s 
former regime, has been the scene of frequent clashes between 
coalition forces and insurgents. Fighting in the city broke out again 
late Friday afternoon, witnesses said by telephone, but there were no 
further details from the military. 

On Thursday, another 1st Infantry patrol came under attack in the 
same area. There were no U.S. casualties from either attack. 

Military officials said seven insurgents had been killed in the two 
days of skirmishes, but officials at Baqouba General Hospital said 
five people had died and 15 were injured. Insurgents often don't 
bring wounded fighters to the hospital out of fear of arrest. 

Four Iraqi policemen were injured in the southern city of Nasiriyah 
when a bomb they were trying to defuse exploded, witnesses said. An 
Italian officer confirmed the explosion and the injuries. 

In southeastern Iraq (news - web sites), British forces clashed with 
fighters loyal to a radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr late Thursday, 
killing at least two insurgents, witnesses and military officials 
said. 

No British soldiers were hurt in the fighting in Amarah, 180 miles 
southeast of Baghdad, a British military spokesman said. 

The insurgents used small arms, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades 
in clashes that lasted about two hours, witnesses said. 

Insurgents also launched attacks against British soldiers in Amarah 
on Wednesday after they detained militia leader Ahmed Hachi. 

Al-Sadr's forces are skirmishing regularly with U.S. troops in 
Baghdad's Sadr City district, but they were routed by the 1st Armored 
Division in Karbala and their ranks were significantly reduced in 
Najaf and Kufa, coalition forces say. 

Crews are completing repairs on a major pipeline system in the south 
that was sabotaged by insurgents a weeks ago. Full crude oil exports 
are expected by end of next week, but could come as early as 
Wednesday, coalition officials said Friday. 

The smaller of the two lines damaged in the attack is nearly fixed, 
and could be tested as early as Saturday, said Dominic d'Angelo, a 
spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition in the southern city of Basra. 

The damage to the larger pipeline is still being assessed, he said. 

The resumption of full exports is expected "for the end of next week. 
But they could come by the middle. Wednesday is a possibility," he 
said. 

The attacks against the pipeline appear part of an insurgent campaign 
to undermine public support for the interim government which takes 
power June 30, marking the end of the American-run occupation. 

In the boldest attack in months, a car bomber smashed into a crowd 
seeking jobs at a military recruitment center Thursday in Baghdad, 
killing at least 35 Iraqis and wounded another 145. Another car 
bombing on Thursday killed six Iraqi civil defense fighters and 
injured four others in Balad, north of Baghdad. 

Defense Minister Hazem al-Shalan promised harsh retaliation. 

"We will cut off the hands of those people, we will slit their 
throats if it is necessary to do so," al-Shalan said. 

Asked if the new government would impose martial law if security 
continues to deteriorate, interim Interior Minister Falah Hassan al-
Naqib said: "If we need to do it, yes, we'll do it, we won't 
hesitate." 

Most of the victims were poor Iraqis desperate to take dangerous jobs 
in the Iraqi security forces because of few alternatives in a country 
with up to 45 percent unemployment. They took their chances at the 
recruitment center even after a February bombing there killed 47 
people. 

The Balad bombing came a day after a rocket slammed into a U.S. 
logistics base near Balad, killing three U.S. soldiers and wounding 
25 other people, including two civilians. 

South Korea (news - web sites)'s Defense Ministry said it will send 
3,000 soldiers to northern Iraq in early August. Once the deployment 
is complete, South Korea will be the largest coalition partner after 
the United States and Britain. 

South Korea already has 600 military medics and engineers in the 
southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah. They are expected to head to 
northern Iraq beginning in mid-July to prepare facilities ahead of 
the arrival of the main force, South Korea's Yonhap news agency 
reported. 

In Tokyo, the Cabinet approved a plan Friday for Japanese troops, now 
in Iraq on a humanitarian mission, to stay and join a multinational 
force after the interim government takes control. 

More than 300 people have been killed in attacks on police stations 
and recruitment centers since September. In the most lethal attacks, 
five suicide bombings near police stations and a police academy in 
Basra killed at least 68 and wounded 200. 

Meanwhile, al-Sadr who led a two-month uprising in Iraq called on the 
interim government Friday to end its alliance with the U.S.-led 
coalition. 

"Your alliance with the occupation will bring only shame and disgrace 
to you," al-Sadr told President Ghazi al-Yawer in comments read by an 
aide during the weekly Friday sermon at the Kufa mosque. 

Al-Sadr's uprising, was launched in April after U.S. occupation 
authorities closed his newspaper. The rebellion has left hundreds 
dead in clashes with U.S. troops. 



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