July 2006 - Iraq Special Weapons News

23 July 2006 - Iraq Special Weapons News

CENTAF releases airpower summary for July 22 and 23 AFPN 23 Jul 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials released the airpower summary for July 22 and 23.
Iraqis Continue to Take Lead in Fighting Terrorists, Officials Say AFPS 23 Jul 2006 -- Better-trained and more confident Iraqi troops increasingly are taking the fight to the terrorists, and U.S. troops are securing better and more actionable intelligence, thanks to their daily, long-standing efforts on behalf of the Iraqi people, U.S. military officials reported this week.
Violence In Iraq Leaves Over 70 Dead RFE/RL 23 Jul 2006 -- At least 72 people are reported to have been killed across Iraq in two large bomb attacks and in a major clash with Shi'ite militiamen.
Dozens Dead in Separate Iraq Attacks VOA 23 Jul 2006 -- More than 60 Iraqis have been killed after bomb attacks in a busy market and outside a town hall in the mostly Shiite Baghdad district of Sadr City

Bush, Iraqi Leader Expected To Review Baghdad Security Plan Washington File 23 Jul 2006 -- President Bush's meeting with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of Iraq July 25 will be an opportunity for the leaders to evaluate progress in the areas of security, political reconciliation and economic reform in Iraq, according to a senior administration official.

Saddam Hussein Hospitalized RFE/RL 23 Jul 2006 -- Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was today hospitalized, 17 days into a hunger strike.

IRAQ: Torture of detainees is commonplace, says rights group IRIN 23 Jul 2006 -- The Iraqi government has called for an investigation after New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released on Sunday that US military personnel regularly torture and abuse Iraqi detainees under interrogation.
Prisoner Abuse Reportedly Continued After Abu Ghraib RFE/RL 23 Jul 2006 -- The group Human Rights Watch says in a new report that U.S. military commanders encouraged abusive interrogations of Iraqi detainees even after the Abu Ghraib prison scandal called public attention to the issue in 2004.
Report: US Superiors Authorized Abuse of Iraqi Detainees VOA 23 Jul 2006 -- A U.S.-based human rights organization alleges that detainees in U.S. custody in Iraq were routinely subjected to beatings, sleep deprivation, stress positions and other forms of abuse by American interrogators.