Nur al-Cubicle

A blog on the current crises in the Middle East and news accounts unpublished by the US press. Daily timeline of events in Iraq as collected from stories and dispatches in the French and Italian media: Le Monde (Paris), Il Corriere della Sera (Milan), La Repubblica (Rome), L'Orient-Le Jour (Beirut) and occasionally from El Mundo (Madrid).

Monday, May 10, 2004

10 May 2004 Events in Iraq

16.55 Baghdad. GENERAL MILLER: "WE WILL CUT THE NUMBER OF ABU GHRAIB PRISONERS IN HALF. To happen within 45 days.

16.50 London. TORTURE, HOON: "AUTHENTICITY OF TORTURE PHOTOS IN DOUBT".

16.30 Baghdad. BAGHDAD POWER STATION IN FLAMES. Power station in SW Baghdad supplying the Amiriya and Yarmuk neighborhoods.

16.15 Baghdad. TORTURE, KIMMIT: "WE WILL INVESTIGATE ABUSES THROUGHOUT IRAQ".

16.00 Baghdad. 35 SHIITE MILITANTS KILLED in nighttime battles.

14.00 Baghdad. AL SADR: "FIGHT THE ENEMY WHEREVER HE IS". "We have entered into the second stage of resistance. Our patience is exhausted.

13.50 London. TORTURE, BLAIR: "NO OBJECTION TO PUBLISHING RED CROSS REPORT".

12.56 Fallujah. RESIDENTS FIRE INTO THE AIR. Disaster narrowly avoided as Marines thought they were fired upon.

12.39 Washington. BUSH, WE WILL WIN. Unlike '91, we won't cut and run. [Um, remember Osama?]

12.15 Basrah. OIL EXPORTS CUT IN HALF. Pipeline bombed on Faw Peninsula.

12.12 Kufa. NEW CLASHES IN KUFA, 12 IRAQIS KILLED.

12.10 Baghdad. EXPLOSION AT BAGHDAD HOTEL, BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE CONFIRMS CITIZENS WOUNDED.

11.53 Doha. AL JAZEERA, VIDEO DEATH THREATS TO BRITISH. The El Taf Martyrs Brigade threatens death and kidnapping of British troops.

11.19 Paris. FRANCE EXCLUDES SENDING TROOPS TO IRAQ. Michel Barnier says France will participate in reconstruction but will not send troops even if part of UN or NATO deployment.

11.16 Doha. AL JAZEERA, VIDEO THREATS TO FOREIGN WORKERS. An unknown Basrah group warns foreign workers not to walk the streets of the city.

10.52 Baghdad. SADR CITY, 16 IRAQIS DEAD.

10.18 Baquba. IRAQ: BAQUBA GOVERNOR ESCAPES ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. Governor of Diyala Province survives roadside bombing, 3 escorts wounded.

09.47 Doha. AL-JAZEERA, AL SADR MILITIA WITHDRAWS FROM NASSIRIYA.

09.46 Baghdad. AERIAL BOMBING OF AL SADR HEADQUARTERS. A single-story building flattened by US airstrike in Sadr City.

08.41 Fallujah. CONVOY OF 10 MARINES ENTERS FALLUJAH.

08.19 Kirkuk. NEW ZEALANDER AND SOUTH AFRICAN KILLED IN KIRKUK.

07.54 Fallujah. EXPLOSIONS SHAKE CITY. Explosions in southwest Falluja.

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