Iraqi police recruit 500 in Anbar drive
More than 500 Iraqi men joined the police in Anbar province in the region's most successful recruiting push by U.S. and Iraqi forces. Marines screened applicants along the western Euphrates valley before shortlisting recruits. In Baghdad, two people were killed by a bomb and, in Amarah, two more died in clashes between British forces and gunmen.
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British general calls conflict civil war in miniature
Washington AP reports Lt Gen Robert Fry the British deputy to the top US commander in Iraq says the sectarian violence in Baghdad is not a full civil war though it could be called a civil war in miniature. He notes no mass flight from Baghdad and a functioning central government while urging Iraqi reconciliation and continued US led operations to separate sects.
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Trial hears survivors describe chemical attack on Kurdish villages
In Saddam Hussein trial testimony, survivors recount a 1987 chemical weapons attack on Basilan and Sheik Wasani villages during the Anfal campaign. They describe greenish gas, blindness, vomiting, and deaths including a newborn, with victims stating the atrocity included civilians beyond Kurdish guerrillas.
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