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| Iraq |
| Syrian captured with Zarqawi leaflets |
| 2006-03-23 |
| REBELS blasted an Iraqi police station with grenade and mortar fire, killing four policemen in Madaen, south of Baghdad, police said. They said they had detained about 70 suspects in raids in the town after the assault, which occurred a day after at least 22 people were killed and 30 prisoners released in a similar attack on a police post north-east of the capital. Among the detainees was a Syrian found with leaflets by the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, police said. The violence again underlined the need for Iraq's leaders to break a deadlock over a government of national unity, widely seen as the best of hope of stabilising the country and undermining support for a tenacious Sunni Arab insurgency. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday approved rare talks with Washington on Iraq, where Shiite Islamists with links to Tehran lead the interim government. Some Iraqi officials hope US-Iranian contacts could ease the political logjam, which is due partly to rifts among Shiite parties as well as those involving Kurds and Sunni Arabs. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 interrogate, then kill him |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-03-23 11:45 |