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A blog on the current crises in the Middle East and news accounts unpublished by the US press.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

Friday, May 07, 2004

7 May 2004 Events in Iraq

16.20 Madrid. SPAIN CONDEMNS PRISONER ABUSE. Vice Premier Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega condemns prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib.

16.00 Rome. ITALIAN HOSTAGES HELD BY SEVERAL DIFFERENT GROUPS.

15.30 Fallujah. PACIFIST CONVOY REACHES FALLUJA. A dozen trucks with water, blankets, food, clothing and portable cooking stoves were delivered to Imam Abdullah Al Jaanabi.

15.15 Washington. ASHCROFT SUGGESTS INDICTMENTS AGAINST CIVILIANS AND CIA OPERATIVES FOR ABUSES AT Abu Ghraib.

14.45 Geneva. UN HEADQUARTERS IN GENEVA REINFORCES SECURITY MEASURES. Osama offers 22 pounds of gold bullion as bounty on head of Kofi Annan.

14.20 New York. NEW TORTURE PHOTOS. New York Times in possession of macabre photos of 2 Iraqis killed by their US interrogators at Abu Ghraib.

14.10 Karbala. CLASHES IN KARBALA. Five civilians dead.

13.20 Mosul CARBOMB KILLS 4 IRAQI POLICEMEN.

13.00 Washington. NEW TORTURE REVELATIONS. Three US MPs come forward with fresh evidence of systematic torture at Abu Ghraib.

10.30 Nassiriya. MORTAR ATTACK ON NASSIRIYA HOSPITAL. 2 security guards and one civilian wounded in attack intended to hit CPA headquarters.

08.33 Latifiya. JOURNALIST DEAD, CAMERAMAN WOUNDED An Algerian journalist was killed and his Polish cameraman wounded in Latifiya, south of Baghdad.

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