At least one Iraqi was killed and 16 more were wounded in light violence. In an Iraqi court, meanwhile, a British security guard was given life in prison for killing two colleagues.
In a bid to ensure an Arab League Summit scheduled for March 29 goes on as planned, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki insisted that Iraq currently is the safest Arab country. Separately, though, he advised moving provincial elections up as a response to ongoing and deadly anti-government protests. Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called on Maliki to focus on protestor’s demands, as Maliki is ultimately responsible for what happens in Iraq.
A program designed to help women in poverty by paying them a monthly stipend to search other women for suicide vests is in danger of ending. The women who work for the Daughters of Iraq have not been paid their salaries in nearly a year and many of them are quitting.
A blast killed one policeman and wounded a second in Buhriz.
In Baghdad, a bomb planted on a police colonel’s car in Adhamiya wounded two bystanders when it exploded. A bomb in Kamaliya wounded two more civilians. Two people were wounded in a blast near a Karrada liquor shop. A civilian was wounded in Doura when a roadside bomb blasted a petrol tanker. Last night, a bomb in Amiriya targeting the mayor’s car wounded two bystanders.
A bomb in Jalawla wounded three people.
In Mosul, a bomb targeting an army patrol wounded three bystanders instead.
Car bomb rumors have forced a vehicle ban and curfew in Kirkuk.
Two Katyusha rockets fell on a U.S. base near Diwaniya.
