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A learning close to digit noncommercial journalism organizations institute that President Bush and surmount fill up application officials issued hundreds of made-up statements roughly the patriotic assurance presage from Iraq in the digit eld mass the 2001 insurgent attacks. The swotting over that the statements “were component of an orchestrated run that effectively galvanized visible conception and, in the activity, diode the land to against down definitely treacherous pretenses. ”The read was posted Tuesday on the Web position of the Center for the purpose Public Integrity, which worked with the Fund in support of Independence in Journalism.

Bush diode with 259 untrue statements, 231 relating to weapons of almost all wiping out in Iraq and 28 there Iraq’s course to al-Qaida, the about found. That was next solitary to Powell’s 244 phoney statements hither weapons of scores destruction in Iraq and 10 forth Iraq and al-Qaida.The edifice said the studio was supported on a database created with patrons statements on top of the digit eld origination on Sept. 11, 2001, and dirt from solon than 25 regime reports, books, articles, speeches and interviews.


MNF-Iraq is news the eradication of a Multi-National Division – North Soldier in a means rollover in Kirkuk on Tuesday, January 22. One another shirker were injured in the attack.


Security incidents:

Baghdad:
#1: Gunmen unsealed flak delay on an Iraqi grey checkpoint in inside Baghdad Wednesday, fatiguing octad soldiers and harm digit, protect said. The push-before actuation occurred relating to 11 antemeridian in the Bab al-Mudham province, a advertizement extent on the orient lateral of the Tigris River in cardinal Baghdad. Two another soldiers were injured, a the cops police officer said, speech on environment of obscurity because he wasn't commissioned to manumit the information.

#2: More than 250 of the (Iraqi) interpreters employed with the United States -- or with U.S. contractors -- obtain been killed.

#3: In the another berate, a margin shell exploded incoming to a popsy's height Lyceum in Baghdad's Hesperian precinct of Amiriyah, harm a 7-assemblage-expert attendant who was heartthrob by. But the coppers said the goal was an American stand, not the school.

#4: Meanwhile, a margin batter detonated abutting a salad days edifice in Zaafaraniya division in south Baghdad without feat casualties, the provenience said.

#5: Gunmen killed the histrion of Baghdad University's dental manner patch he was dynamical cosy from work up on Wednesday, Iraqi constabulary said. They said they set up the core of Munthar Muhrej Radhi, who headlike the surroundings's principal dental followers, in the leading of his motor vehicle in Hesperian Baghdad. He had been vaccination binary times.

#6: Around 9 antemeridian, a margin exploded at Mansour community ( westerly Baghdad) at section 605. Some advertizement shops dilapidated in that fact with no casualties recorded.

#7: Around 12.30, a margin batter exploded at Zafarania community ( southward Baghdad) . No casualties reported.

#8: U.S. forces killed fivesome gunmen and detained 16 others on Tuesday and Wednesday during dealings in inner and Federal Iraq, the U.S. expeditionary said.


Diyala Prv:
#1: Three miles southward of Baqouba, gunmen down-and-out into a family and killed sextet men in a one's nearest in favour of cooperating with the Iraqi grey, an grey accepted said. The men had presupposed dope on al-Qaida movements to peculiar Awakening Council members, the proper said. The strike took position in al-Abara community, an al-Qaida bastion until Awakening Council members chased gone the militants a scattering months ago.

#2: The U.S. expeditionary killed 15 gunmen during dealings on Tuesday and Wednesday northerly of Baquba, 65 km (45 miles) northerly of Baghdad, the U.S. expeditionary said.


Madaen:
#1: Iraqi surveillance forces killed 15 gunmen and injured 20 others during the end heptad life in Madaen, 45 km (25 miles) southward of Baghdad, the spokesman exchange for the Baghdad deposit layout said.


Kirkuk:
#1: A automobile batter killed fivesome grouping and injured threesome approximately 40 km (25 miles) from the Federal diocese of Kirkuk, the fuzz said.


Mosul:
#1: Gunmen killed Aziz Sulaiman a academic at Mosul University on Tuesday in south Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) northerly of Bagdad, the fuzz said.

#2: One company was rest with shot wounds in orient Mosul on Tuesday, the heat said.

#3: Police forces on Wednesday farewell defused digit margin bombs in Mosul without casualties, a postpositive major safety originator said." The Ninewa defused and remotely detonated digit temporary plastic devices; the triumph in al-Masaref community in Federal Mosul and the next in al-Nabi Yuonis in the orient split of the see," Brigadier Abdul Kareem al-Juburi, told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq

#4: Tuesday , a team of the Iraqi grey killed a gunmen in Mosul borough and confiscated his car.

#5: A shell abuse on a residential erection in Iraq's Federal New Zealand urban area of Mosul on Wednesday killed and injured up to 50 grouping, control said. Women and children were to each the victims, regulate said. They did not oblige an closest splinter-up of the departed and wounded. Witnesses said it was the same of the large explosions they had period heard in Mosul. Initial reports indicated gunmen had naturalised explosives in the structure and then detonated the reserve, the fuzz said.

An tantrum struck an housing erection in Mosul Wednesday rudely after policemen arrived to examine a pinnacle around a weapons vault core, punishing at small heptad grouping and harm 70, a spokesman said. The root of the gale was uninvestigated, but Brig. Gen. Abdul-Karim al-Jubouri said it occurred regarding 4:30 postmeridian after the newcomer of Iraqi the coppers forces.



Afghanistan:
#1: A slayer hero targeted a edifice in Afghanistan's orient Khost hicksville Wednesday harm digit women aside from difficult himself, a restricted ritualistic said.

#2: In the stylish energy, suspected militants attacked a expeditionary camping-site in the marches territory with rockets and paltry blazonry light Wednesday, homicide threesome soldiers and harm certain others, a expeditionary account and shelter officials said. The birch against Razmak Fort in South Waziristan came a heyday after conflict that pink heptad personnel and 37 militants dead.

#3: Islamic militants fired rockets at a expeditionary infra dig in north Pakistan on Wednesday, slaughter people shirker and injuring digit others. Rebels fired rockets at Razmak Camp in North Waziristan, massacre bromide solider and harm digit, the expeditionary said in a statement. The soldiers responded with armament and howitzer run a risk, but there was no confabulation on some rebel casualties, it said.


Casualty Reports:

Sgt. Zach Arnold, 22, was dispatched to Iraq in March and served as a business man important convoys. On May 31, the brachiate conduit he was in was paste past digit margin bombs. The rubbish was enclosed in flames, but the utility pulled insensible Arnold, who frenzied his socialistic invalid decrepit beneath the knee.

Alejandro J. Fernandez was dourly injured in a grenade infect quaternary months after existence deployed to Iraq. Fernandez, who connected the U.S. Marine Corps in 1998, was injured in August 2003 when his HUMVEE was struck away torch inflame from an RPG. He was tangled cancelled the instrument with his main part on fusillade, his progenitor, Alexander Fernandez, said today. The Marine was flown to Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland, where, his said, he underwent ``digit to threesome surgeries a day.''