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A blog on the current crises in the Middle East and news accounts unpublished by the US press.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

Sunday, May 16, 2004

16 May 2004 Events in Iraq

21.02 Nassiriya. ITALIAN SOLDIER GRAVELY WOUNDED following firefight.

20.50 Nassiriya. ITALY'S BASE LIBECCIO EVACUATED.

19.35 Washington. POWELL: "WE WILL STAY IN IRAQ FOR A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF TIME".

18.46 Nassiriya. SITUATON TENSE AS MILITANTS OCCUPY ROOFTOP OF CPA OFFICES

18.20 Nassiriya. 28 CIVILIANS WOUNDED

18.15 Karbala. US TANKS ADVANCE TO SACRED SHRINES. US tanks outside Imam Abbas and Imam Hussein shrines [in attempt to provoke Iran?]

18.14 Baghdad. 3 IRAQIS KILLED.

18.06 Najaf. DELEGATION FROM FALLUJA MEETS MOQTADA SADR IN NAJAF.

17.54 Nassiriya. 3 ITALIANS WOUNDED IN MORTAR ATTACK

17.25 Doha. AL JAZEERA SHOWS TAPE OF RUSSIAN HOSTAGES

17.20 Karbala. AL SADR SUPPPORTERS DISPERSE CROWD

16.20 Baghdad. 2 IRAQI EMPLOYEES OF CPA KILLED IN BAGHDAD

15.32 Nassiriya. Italian CONVOY ATTACKED

15.30 Baghdad. US SOLDIER KILLED BY ROADSIDE BOMB

13.39 Nassiriya. ITALIANS BATTLE MILITANTS

13.33 Nassiriya. MARKET BOMBING

12.51 Baghdad. EXPLOSION IN GREEN ZONE

12.43 Amara. BRITISH TROOPS IN HAND TO HAND COMBAT.

12.00 Teheran. KHAMENEI DENOUNCES CPA FOR BATTLES IN SHI'A AREAS

10.14 Nassiriya. 4 ITALIAN TROOPS WOUNDED

09.41 Nassiriya. MILITANTS OCCUPY HOSPITAL, FIRE ON CPA BUILDING

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