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A blog on the current crises in the Middle East and news accounts unpublished by the US press.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

Saturday, June 12, 2004

12 June 2004 Events in Iraq

16:30 Fallujah. BOMB EXPLODES AS US CONVOY PASSES THRU VILLAGE OF KARMA

11:43 Fallujah. SEVEN TURKISH HOSTAGES FREED Construction workers kidnapped near Mosul were freed this morning in Fallujah, says company owner Serdar Adali.

10:13 Baquba. US CONVOY HIT BY ROADSIDE BOMB. Vehicles on fire, two US soldiers, one Iraqi wounded.

10:00 Washington. ABU GHRAIB, GENERAL SANCHEZ ORDERED TORTURE. Reported in The Washington Post.

09:20 Nassiriya. ITALIAN TROOPS ATTACKED. Italians ambushed with RPGs in Shwalish, 3 km from Suq Ash Shuyukh, near Nassiriya. No one was killed.

08:01 Baghdad. IRAQI DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER ASSASSINATED Bassam Qubba, 60, was assassinated in the Al-Adhamiya quarter by a lone gunman. Qubba had been in the Iraqi delegation to the UN last week.

07:16 New Delhi. INDIAN LEFT OPPOSES SENDING TROOPS TO IRAQ. Congress Party's partners in governing coaltion reject deal between Colin Powell and Premier Natwar Singh to consider possibility of sending troops.

06:00 Baghdad. THREE HOSTAGES SLAIN. One Lebanese and two Iraqis working for a foreign electric power contractor were kidnapped and killed Nick Berg style, their mutilated bodies left along the highway near the Jordanian border. Another Lebanese escapes.

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