July, 2007

• 1 July

  Maliki criticises US raid as 26 dead

  Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki condemned a US raid Saturday in Baghdad’s Shiite Sadr City slum — a politically sensitive district for him — in which American troops searching for Iranian-linked gunmen sparked a firefight that left 26 Iraqis dead.

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• 1 July

  Isolation deepens, supplies insufficient

  The trucks are there, piled high with foreign foodstuffs. There’s a grinding of gears, dust, hand signals and a man with a clipboard, waving load after load through the heavy frontier gate.

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• 1 July

  Israel kills 6 in Gaza air strikes

  Israel launched two air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing six Palestinians, including three senior Islamic Jihad fighters it long sought for firing rockets and orchestrating other attacks.

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• 1 July

  New combat operations of Mujahideen in Chechnya

  According to the source of AlKavkaz news website, on June 28 during a combat operation near the village of Gezinchu, southern Chechnya, a unit of Mujahideen under the command of Amir Osama blew up an APC of the invaders.

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• 1 July

  The secret wars of the CIA

  Part 1 JOHN STOCKWELL, 10 October 1987 John Stockwell is the highest-ranking CIA official ever to leave the agency and go public.

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• 1 July

  Fayyad has no right to silence the mosques

  Salam Fayyad, prime minister of the Western-backed emergency government in Ramallah, has been acting lately as if he were the head of a free government of a sovereign state.

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• 1 July

  Road accident made into an act of terrorism

  The next antiterrorist hysteria is untwisted in London. It is not clear yet, if this company creating fear is connected with election of the new prime minister of this country Gordon Brown.

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• 1 July

  Ex-Mossad head: Israeli reports led to death of Egyptian agent

  Former Mossad head Zvi Zamir has said that reports in Israel about Dr. Ashraf Marwan, Israel’s Egyptian agent who warned of the pending outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, led to his death.

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• 1 July

  Foreign air strikes kill 65 Afghan civilians: mayor

  LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (AFP) – Anti-Taliban air strikes by US- and NATO-led forces in Afghanistan killed 65 villagers including children, a local official said Saturday, amid growing anger here over civilian deaths.

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• 1 July

  Afghan civilians said killed in clash

  KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – U.S.-led airstrikes targeting Taliban militants who had attacked NATO forces slammed into civilian homes in southern Afghanistan, killing both civilians and insurgents, Afghan and Western officials said Saturday.

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