Amara – The Mail & Guardian

/ 12 December 2007

Triple car bombing kills 40 in southern Iraq

Forty people were killed and more than 125 wounded when three car bombs exploded in quick succession in the Shi’ite city of Amara in southern Iraq on Wednesday, police said. The attacks in the capital of Maysan province were among the deadliest this year in southern Iraq and came as tensions ran high across the region.

By Aref Mohammed

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/ 18 April 2007

Iraq PM sees security control by year’s end

Iraq plans to take security control of the whole country from foreign forces by the end of the year, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Wednesday after British forces handed over control of a southern province. Fiery anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is increasing pressure on Maliki to set a timetable for the withdrawal of 146Â 000 United States troops from Iraq.

By Ross Colvin