NewsOctober 21, 2004
Developments in Iraq on Wednesday
n Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari complained the United Nations has not done enough to help prepare the country's January elections, saying it has not sent enough election workers to help out with the vital balloting. n U.S. aircraft mounted four strikes in Fallujah on what the U.S. ...
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- Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari complained the United Nations has not done enough to help prepare the country's January elections, saying it has not sent enough election workers to help out with the vital balloting.
- U.S. aircraft mounted four strikes in Fallujah on what the U.S. military said were safehouses used by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's terror network. A Sunni Muslim clerical group demanded the Iraqi government prevent any full-scale U.S. attack on Fallujah, hoping to muster the same public anger that forced the Marines to abandon a siege of the city last spring.
- Eleven American soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter were wounded when two car bombs exploded in Samarra, a city that U.S. and Iraqi forces have hailed as a success story since taking it from insurgents last month. An Iraqi child was killed and a civilian was wounded, the Army said.
- CARE International suspended operations in Iraq, a day after the aid group's director for the country, Margaret Hassan, was abducted. Her family said they had received no demands from the kidnappers.
- Staff Sgt. Ivan L. "Chip" Frederick, 38, pleaded guilty to five charges stemming from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Frederick, the highest-ranking soldier charged in the abuse case, was expected to be sentenced Thursday.
- Two Egyptian mobile telephone engineers were released by kidnappers who abducted them from their Baghdad office last month, their employer said. The company said the release was mediated by al-Zarqawi's organization.
- British Prime Minister Tony Blair told parliament British troops would be redeployed in Iraq only to help stabilize the conflict-torn country, not boost President Bush's chances of re-election. He sought to quell dissent among lawmakers who oppose a U.S. request for a battalion of British troops, currently stationed in southern Iraq, to move north to the more volatile, U.S.-controlled sector near Baghdad.
- A spokesman for Saddam Hussein's defense team accused Iraq's interim government of planning a quick trial for the deposed dictator timed so that the world is distracted by the Nov. 2 U.S. presidential elections.
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