European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 25, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Pages stars and st rip e s june 2007 troops work to ease merchants worries As barriers installed stars and stripes soldiers Are nearly done put Ting up barriers in a Market in the Rosafa District of Eastern Bagh officials said Over Concrete sections have been installed at the pales Tine with troops working to ease merchants according to a news release issued by multinational although merchants under stood the need for pastry and fruit vendors who rely on impulse buys were worried their products been seen from the others thought there be enough room to get through Pushcart or scooters or for a Cess to driveways and delivery we talked with the store own ers and after the each one had Dif Ferent concerns and we tried to accommodate Bruce executive officer of the 3rd 61st cavalry regi 2nd infantry brigade com Bat team of the 2nd infantry Divi was quoted As its a very dispersed said James Squadron we had to accommodate each Block differ we went business by Busi Block by and that really the Barrier which faced challenges including destroyed Bridges and intimidated began May 1 and was virtually done a week Vitor some of the merchants have said shopping has increased and that the shoppers seem More re Phillips its As crowded As Ive Ever seen some merchants Are putting advertisements or paintings on the checkpoints and patrols also help keep the area officials in related 43 vendors of the Dora Market in the Rashid District last week had their applications processed for Micro Grants designed to help reopen their the Grants Are for up to and can include inking items procured for for instead of giving them Cash to buy an we buy them an said Rick a civilian officer with the 4th infantry Bri Gade combat team who met with vendors along with local iraqi government without this it is difficult for local nationals to acquire capital since there is not yet a robust banking system in Iraq As you would find in most West Ern Banks was quoted As saying in a news release issued saturday by multinational shop owners who were at a meeting held wednesday about the Grants had their fingers print Retinas scanned and pictures taken As part of a census to ensure no funds would be paid to in surgent officials a joint Security manned by and iraqi was opened in the Spring in military officials say the neighbor Hood is one of Baghdad most Ali Hasan from Sultan Hashim Ahmad Altal and Hussein Rashid Mohammed chemical Ali sentenced 3 get death penalty for 80s Campaign against kurd the associated press Baghdad two decades after Iraq military Laid waste to kurdish the iraqi High Tribu Nal on sunday sentenced Ali Hassan known As chemical and two 9thers to death for their roles in the bloody Campaign against the restive ethnic a Cousin of executed former president Saddam was convicted of crimes against humanity and War crimes for ordering army and Security services to use chemical weapons in an offensive said to have killed some people during the 198088 Ira Iraq the defendants in what was known As the anal for the code name of the anti kurdish Cam had claimed they were acting on orders at a time when the Baghdad under viewed the Independence minded kurd As allies of Iran during the 1980s Saddam had been a defendant in the Case but was executed 30 after his conviction for the killing of 148 shiite muslims in Duvail after a 1982 attempt on his who had headed the the ruling baath party Northern Bureau command in the stood silently for sundays verdict and thanks be to As he was led from two others sentenced to hang for anti kurdish atrocities were former defense minister Sultan Hashim Ahmad Altai and Hussein Rashid Moham a former Deputy director of operations for the iraqi armed interrupting the judge As the verdict was Mohammed said the defendants were defending Iraq against kurdish god bless our mar Long live the Brave iraqi Long live Long live the baath party and Long live Arab a he two other former regime officials Sabir former director of military and Farhan Mutlaq who was head of military intelligences Eastern regional office were sentenced to life in All charges were dropped against Taher Tawfiq a former governor of because of insufficient car bomb kills two in Hillah the associated press Baghdad a car bomb in the Southern City of Hillah on sat urday evening killed at least two people and wounded 18 a Hospital official the parked car targeted a Gath ering of civilians in Central 60 Miles South of said Muthana a spokesman for Babil provincial the pre dominantly shiite Muslim City has been the target of some of the deadliest car bomb attacks by suspected sunni Muslim extremists in the four years of insurgency and sectarian killings in on the political two sunni blocs in the iraqi Parlia holding 55 began a Boycott of the 275seat House on demanding reinstate ment of the sunni Mah Moud parliament had voted june 11 to ask whose erratic behaviour had embarrassed even his sunni Arab to step Down while one of the sunni blocs named a the sunni Boycott threatens to further disrupt the work of prime minister noun Alma Likis Shi it dominated government As it seeks to enact under pressure from the United to reconcile the differences among Iraq sunni and kurdish Maliki the boy Cott came a Day after the Parlia ment decided to cancel a two month summer vacation that was supposed to Start on july 1 in order to be Able to approve among the Laws is the Oil Law that the United states has been press ing Alma Likis Cabinet to two prisoners in Iraq die of cardiac arrest stars and stripes the military announced late saturday the deaths of two prisoners in Iraq by cardiac one of whom had been wounded earlier this month in a mortar attack on a one of the men died thursday of cardiac arrest during a routine medical Transfer from Camp crop per to Camp a military statement the Detainee was pronounced dead at by an attending physician at Camp Buccal medical an investigation is pending to determine the cause of a Standard procedure for detainees who die while in the second prisoner died on Friday also after suf Fering a heart attack apparently related to wounds sustained in a june 9 mortar attack on Camp the Man had been being treated at the Camp Bucca prison Hospital since suffering shrapnel wounds to the Abdomen in the officials at least seven other prisoners were killed in the at which wounded 68 other prisoners and one iraqi no americans were Hurt in the in both family members of the prisoners will be Given the remains after an investigation and autopsy Are officials Petraeus wont speculate on Spring Force reduction stars and stripes the Overall commander of troops in Iraq has poured cold water on the Prospect of a reduction of forces in Iraq this according to the new York daily news on the Day today commander of troops in Iraq told reporters on Friday that iraqi troops and police officers might be in a position to take Over greater Security responsibility for Iraq in the which Means i think potentially we could have a decision to re Duce our said Raymond but the top general in David told the new York daily news that he was not willing to make any predictions on future troop Levels in it depends an awful lot on Dif Ferent factors out there obviously How were doing in the Secu Rity How the iraqis Are How much has been accomplished in a variety of different and that what will deter mine what we take Petrae us told the in the talks of a draw Down of troops in Iraq have amounted to in june the new York times reported that Petraeus George had a plan to reduce the number of combat Bri Gades in Iraq from 14 to five by the end of but the plan quietly evaporated amid rising sectarian Vio Lence in causing de sense officials to increase the num Ber of combat brigades in first to 16 and ultimately to 20 As part of the Petraeus is expected to give Law makers a report in september on How Well the surge is while officials say no decision has been made on whether the surge will last beyond the the most recent schedule of units deploying to Iraq gives command ers the ability to maintain 20 Bri Gade combat teams in Iraq through the end of the Petraeus
