Abduljabbar al Kubaysi, influential political leader of the Iraqi resistance and secretary-general of the Iraqi Patriotic Alliance (IPA) elaborates on the new situation evolving in Iraq.

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The former collaborator said that the Americans have a unit for "dirty jobs." That unit is a mix of Iraqis, Americans, and foreigners and of the security detachments that are deployed in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities.

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AMSI issued a press statement condemning the occupation forces attacks on Numan hospital in Adhamia by the government guards and closing it using ugly and sectarian method.

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Resistance web-site albasrah.net summarizes reports about what happened at Naaman Hospital in the walled-off area of Adhamiya yesterday, beginning with a summary of remarks by a Dr Ahmad Mahmoud, a doctor at the hospital, to AlJazeera TV.

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In a dispatch posted at 12:37pm Makkah time Monday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that medical sources had announced that puppet Iraqi army forces backed up by US occupation troops stormed into the an-Nu'man Hospital in the newly walled in al-A'zamiyah district of nort …

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U.S. officials who say there has been a dramatic drop in sectarian violence in Iraq since President Bush began sending more American troops into Baghdad aren't counting one of the main killers of Iraqi civilians.

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The American leader said word-for-word that al-Mahdi army militias exist on al-Hurya and al-Shua'ala area which are near al-Adel area and we can allow them to enter al-Adel area and to target it, and if you don't stop targeting our troops by IEDs and attacks, we will allow th …

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The fundamental objective for building the wall is to divide Baghdad along sectarian lines and this is precisely one of the most important constitution pillar of the sectarian allotment for Iraq.

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The turmoil in the capital of the southern province, home to a key port and most of the country's oil wealth, signals the beginning of the kind of battles that could erupt in Iraq as outside forces depart, say analysts.

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Iraqi special forces and British troops stormed the offices of an Iraqi government intelligence agency in the southern city of Basra on Sunday, and British officials said they discovered about 30 prisoners, some showing signs of torture.

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An al-Qaida-linked Sunni group said Friday that it kidnapped 18 government workers and soldiers in retaliation for the alleged rape of a Sunni woman by members of the Shiite-dominated police force.

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"The big failure of the U.S. troops in Fallujah came when they began bringing Sunni secret police into the city," a member of the city council told IPS. "The situation in Ramadi, Hit, Haditha and all over al-Anbar province is now catastrophic."

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It is important first to recognize that the "sectarian violence" in Iraq today has no precedence in Iraq's history. The now common bombings and assassinations in Baghdad were uncommon even during the first two years of U.S.

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Patrick Cockburn: Iraq is experiencing the biggest exodus in the Middle East since Palestinians were forced to flee in 1948 upon the creation of Israel.

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Mike Whitney: What we know now, is that, there were no foreign fighters (or Al Qaida, as was originally stated) nor were there any Sunni militants.

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Iraqi police say the immigrants, who are mostly Sunni Muslims, are the target of a backlash by hardline Shias, including members of the Mehdi Army led by the Shia preacher Moqtada al-Sadr.

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In a dispatch posted at 5:37pm Makkah time Monday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the Shi'i sectarian militias the Jaysh al-Mahdi and Badr Brigades had held a series of high-level meetings forming a unified Shi'i sectarian "Baghdad Liberation Army" with the aim …

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"The American people have to prevent their sons from coming to Iraq or they may return in coffins," threatened Sheikh Abdel Razzaq al-Nadawi, a senior official in Sadr's movement, slamming the planned US troop increase.

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In a dispatch posted at 10:25pm Makkah time Thursday night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that in keeping with the new American "security plan" for Baghdad, the vanguards of Shi'i sectarian puppet troops of the American-installed regime were moving up from southern Iraq.

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On Monday, the residents said, gunmen from the Mahdi Army militia of radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr pushed into the area, but were beaten back by armed Sunni residents protecting their homes.

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Kurdish leaders have decided to deploy their own militias in the current fighting in Baghdad where government troops aided by U.S. forces have launched yet another campaign to secure the restive city.

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U.S.-led forces are likely to launch a limited New Year offensive against Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia, blamed for sectarian death squad killings, senior Iraqi officials say.

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Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in his New Year speech overnight he hoped Denmark would be able to begin reducing the number of troops it has in Iraq in 2007.

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Officers in the former Iraqi armed forces have said that they have no trust in the government of AlMaliki's call to join the new armed forces in Iraq because they don't believe they can work for a government that commands its armed forces by sectarianism.

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The gulf's two military powers, Sunni-Muslim Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran, are lining up behind their warring religious brethren in Iraq in a potentially explosive showdown, as expectations grow in both countries that America is preparing a pull-out of its troops.

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