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A blog on the current crises in the Middle East and news accounts unpublished by the US press.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).

Tuesday, May 11, 2004

11 May 2004 Events in Iraq

14.15 Baghdad. ABU GHRAIB, PRISONER FAINTS FOLLOWING RAPE. An Iraqi prisoner has told her lawyer that she was raped in Abu Ghraib prison. Story in Los Angeles Times.

13.45 Washington. TORTURE, SEX ACTS AND SEXUAL HUMILIATION. In the photos displayed yesterday at the Pentagon from Abu Ghraib, prisoner shown masturbating, another is sodomized with broomhandle.

13.15 Baghdad. AL DOURI. Izzat Ibrahim Al Douri,'King of Clubs' arrested.

12.45 Rome. ITALIAN PRESIDENT: "TORTURE INTOLERABLE FOR A DEMOCRACY". Carlo Azeglio Ciampi denounces Abu Ghraib torture during visit of Tunisian President Ben Ali.

12.35 Atlanta. CNN, 54% OF AMERICANS SAY WAR IS MISTAKE.

12.15 New York. UNICEF DENOUNCES MISTREATMENT OF CHILDREN IN PRISON IN IRAQ. UNICEF spokesman Damien Personnaz reports abuses occurred last week.

10.30 Najaf. SADR MILITIANMEN DISRUPT DEMONSTRATION.

10.10 Najaf. SADR PROMISED POSTPONEMENT OF TRIAL OF MILITIA DISBANDED. Adnan al-Zorfi, Governor of Najaf guarantees safety.

09.45 Baghdad. AMERICAN FOUND DEAD

09.00 Rutba. CIVILIAN CONVOY ATTACKED. A civilian convoy of 21 trucks from Jordan attacked en route to Baghdad. Thought to be a Kellogg, Brown & Root convoy

08.50 Baghdad. RUSSIAN KILLED, TWO KIDNAPPED IN BAGHDAD. They were employees of Interenergoservices, an electrical power contractor.

08.45 Kufa. 13 SADR MILITANTS KILLED IN KUFA. Town located near Kufa

08.40 Samawa. DUTCH SOLDIER DIES IN SAMAWA.

08.40 Samarra. US SOLDIER KILLED IN SAMARRA by roadside bomb.

08.30 Kirkuk. 4 DEAD IN MARKET BOMBING. 25 WOUNDED.

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