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A blog on the current crises in the Middle East and news accounts unpublished by the US press.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

Wednesday, May 19, 2004

19 May 2004 Events in Iraq

18.40 Paris. CANAL PLUS REPORTS JOURNALISTS AND CAMERAMEN HELD BY US FORCES: French TV network Canal+ says one of its reporting teams is being held incommunicado.

18.26 Washington. BUSH ANNOUNCES NEW IRAQ GOVERNMENT IN 2 WEEKS

18.10 Baghdad. SANCHEZ: EXPECT MORE COURT MARTIALS

17.46 Baghdad. FLAMES SPOTTED IN GREEN ZONE.

17.25 Baghdad. US SOLDIER KILLED IN MIQDADIYA when his patrol was attacked.

16.42 Karbala. DEATHTOLL RISES

15.46 Mosul. BRITON KILLED. Andrew Harris, from Cardiff, shot while driving between Mosul and Arbil.

15.42 Baghdad. GENERAL SANCHEZ: "WE WILL INVESTIGATE ALL RANKS in Abu Ghraib scandal

15.39 Washington. NEW PHOTOS OF PRISONER ABUSE. A 4th CD emerges.

15.35 Washington. CENTCOM : ABIZAID SAW TORTURE REPORT ONLY IN MAY

14.30 Baghdad. SIVITS GETS 1-YEAR SENTENCE

13.32 London. BLAIR DUSTED WITH POWDER DURING COMMONS SESSION. Protesters in the Gallery throw harmless violet powder on Tony Blair; Commons evacuated.

12.07 Karbala Death toll rises to 5 in Karbala

11.35 Baghdad. COURTS-MARTIAL POSTPONED until 21 June.

11.20 Baghdad TORTURE, Sivits found guilty.

10.35 Mosul. POLICEMAN KILLED. Bomb misses Abdullah Fahd Shomari, mayor of Baaj.

10.00 Karbala AIR RAID ON HOLY CITY. 4 Dead, 9 wounded.

07.16 Baghdad. SALIM ASSASSINATION Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and the organization Jamaat al-Tawhid claim credit for Salim carbombing.

07.10 Karbala. COMBAT. 2 Iraqi civilians dead and 3 others gravely wounded as US patrols street adjacent to mosque.

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