Clash kills nine policemen in northern Iraq

Mosul, Irak (ANTARA News) - Bentrokan di Irak utara menewaskan sembilan polisi dan empat orang bersenjata pada Jumat, sementara serangan lainnya, termasuk bom mobil di dekat satu masjid Sunni, menewaskan sedikitnya enam orang tewas lebih, kata para pejabat.

AFP melaporkan mortir ditembakkan di pos-pos pemeriksaan dalam pertempuran sengit yang juga meninggalkan tujuh polisi terluka, kata polisi dan dokter.

Di Rashidiyah, utara Baghdad, bom mobil meledak saat para jamaah meninggalkan Shalat Jumat di Masjid Al-Ghufran, menewaskan sedikitnya lima orang dan melukai 30 lainnya, kata para pejabat.

Sebuah bom pinggir jalan menewaskan seorang kapten polisi di Baiji, utara ibu kota.

Di Al-Amil Baghdad selatan, sebuah "bom lengket" magnit meledak dan melukai seorang kapten polisi, sementara ledakan bom pinggir jalan melukai tiga polisi lainnya di Taji, utara ibu kota, kata berbagai sumber.

Kekerasan itu terjadi sehari setelah PBB mengatakan April adalah bulan paling mematikan bagi Irak dalam hampir lima tahun.

Gelombang kerusuhan dimulai pada 23 April ketika pasukan keamanan mengusir pengunjuk rasa Sunni anti-pemerintah di dekat kota Hawijah di Irak utara, memicu bentrokan yang menewaskan 53 orang.

Puluhan lainnya tewas dalam kerusuhan berikutnya, termasuk dalam serangan balas dendam yang menargetkan pasukan keamanan, meningkatkan kekhawatiran kembalinya konflik sektarian habis-habisan yang telah menewaskan puluhan ribu jiwa dari 2006 sampai 2008.

Sementara kekerasan telah turun dari puncaknya selama konflik sektarian pada 2006 dan 2007, serangan masih sering terjadi, dan telah menewaskan lebih dari 200 orang setiap bulan sepanjang tahun ini, demikian laporan AFP.

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UNIFIL urges Israel to withdraw from Northern Ghajar in Lebanon

Patrol components Indonesia shared the Lebanese Army Battalion and the army of France in the UNIFIL stationed in border areas of Israel and Lebanon. They hold the mandate of the UNITED NATIONS maintain and monitor the situation and condition of the peace that has been created in Lebanon. (Photo Of The Konga Bay Task Force Lighting/XXIII-F/UNIFIL--First Lt. Inf Suwandi)

... Israel must withdraw its forces from the area. "

Beirut (News and Us)-the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL), Tuesday (7/4), insists Israel must withdraw from the northern part of Ghajar, a Village on the border of Lebanon.

Israel's occupation of the northern part of the village was a real violation of UN Resolution 1701, UNIFIL said in a statement. The UN troops said Israel should withdraw its forces from the area. Not long ago UNIFIL refusing Israel build a fence around the village.

UNIFIL will work closely with the Lebanese military in order to implement the UN resolution and prevent any violation by Israel. Israel occupied the northern part of the village during the 2006 war.

Ghajar is a village of 2,000 residents with Alawi in the Hasbani River on the border between Lebanon and the Golan Heights; the international community recognized as a territory occupied by Israel but Syria.

Control over Ghajar has been repeatedly moved the hand. Three hundred years ago, the village was known as Taranjeh. The village was given the name of Ghajar under the rule of the Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Empire), when the land was seized from villagers by the Kurdish people and sold by force.

According to local legend, the Kurdish Governor tried to ride his horse ever Ghajar on the graves of pious people, Sheikh Al-Arba'in. The horse is not going by order of the Governor and on the following day, a fire broke out, thus damaging the shield and swords of the Governor. The Kurds fled and quickly resell it.

Before the 1967 Arab-Israel war, Ghajar was considered part of Syria and its citizens counted in the Census of 1960, Syria.

When Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in 1967, Ghajar remained a land of no man's land for two and a half months.  Alawi community there launched a petition to Governor of Israel in the Golan Heights so that they are included into the area of Israel, as part of the Golan Heights, and not Lebanon. The reason is that they think of themselves as people of Syria, as the majority of the citizens of the Golan.
Israel agrees to enter into the area of occupation in Ghajar, Golan Heights, and then receive their citizens living under the control of Israel.

After operation Litani in 1978, Israel gave up its position in Lebanon to the South LebanoN Army and inaugurated the "Good Fence" policy. P

asukan While the UN in Lebanon (UNIFIL) was formed after the RAID, after the passage of U.n. Security Council Resolution 425 of March 1978 to confirm the withdrawal of Israel from southern Lebanon, restore peace and security, and help the Lebanese Government restore authority in that area.

Ghajar expanded northward into Lebanese territory, and entered the neighborhood of Wazzani in the North of the border.

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PKK prisoners in Turkey and eight Northern Iraq

Cizre, Turkey (Reuters)-Guerrillas of the Kurdistan Workers ' Party (PKK) frees eight people Wednesday of Turkey that they hold it for two years in northern Iraq, said a Kurdish official told AFP.

The men were freed as part of a new peace push by Turkey's Government to end 29-year Kurdish insurgency led by the PKK, branded a terrorist group by much of the world community, the AFP report.

"We have accepted detainees safely," said Husamettin Zenderlioglu, a member of the democracy and peace Party (BDP) pro-Kurd who was part of the delegation to accept the inmates.

Zenderlioglu, which is in northern Iraq, deliver it to a AFP correspondent near Turkey's border with Iraq.

The eighth release of inmates, including the security apparatus and civil servants, made after a request from a jailed Kurdish leader, Abdullah Ocalan, who last month expressed its hope through the BDP's parliamentary members who visit that he wanted to see the prisoners were gathered together again with their families.

Officials started negotiations with Turkey on Ocalan last October, with the main purpose of disarming rebels who use bases in Iraq as a place to launch attacks against security forces in the southeastern region of Turkey.

According to a plan that covered government and Ocalan Ankara, PKK would end hostilities and withdraw fighters from Turkey-warriors as the beginning of disarmament, in exchange for greater rights for Kurds established in the Constitution.

The fugitive Ocalan was arrested in Kenya on February 15, 1999 in a secret operation Turkey after he was exiled from Syria, where he was based for a decade to organize the workers ' Party of Kurdistan (PKK).

The initial verdict against Ocalan death sentence converted to life imprisonment sentence on a prison island off the coast of Istanbul since 2002.

Each year the Kurdish demonstrators clashed with police to protest Turkey's arrest of their leader.

Turkey, the EU and the u.s. considers the Kurdistan Workers ' Party (PKK) as a terrorist organization.

Turkey's military launched air attacks and ground operations are limited to the northern Iraq since August 2011 following the wave of attacks, the PKK guerrillas after the traffic-jammed a ceasefire before.

The PKK launched attacks from their hiding places in the remote mountains of Iraq as part of their war to gain greater rights and autonomy for the Kurdish population.

More than 40,000 people have died since the PKK took up arms in 1984. (M014)

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Plane crash kills 10 people in Northern Brazil

Rio de Janeiro (Reuters)-Ten people were killed when a single-engine plane they were travelling crashed in the small town of Almeirim in Brazil's North, said the local government, Wednesday (16/3).

According to a report by Xinhua, the plane disappeared from radar screens on Tuesday late at night, but the newly discovered puingnya on Wednesday morning, as the site of the accident in the dense forest. There are no penyintas in the accident, the Government said.

The plane, a single-engined aircraft Embraer 821-Caraja, off-the shelf of Belem, capital of Para State, and had an accident just 20 kilometres from Monte Dourado Airport in the city. The victim's name has not been announced.

The plane, belonging to the Fretax, aircraft rental company transporting nine employees of the engineering company Cesbe to the water power plant Santo Antonio do Finger, which is being built in the State of Amapa, which embraces.

The cause of the accident remains unknown and will be investigated by the Department of aviation, Xinhua said Thursday.

Fretax and Cesbe issued a statement deploring the accident and said they would provide assistance to families of the victims.

Fretax and the pilots have been in good health condition and inspection of the aircraft was done on a regular basis.

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Suicide bombing kills eight people in northern Iraq

Mosul, Iraq (Reuters)-a suicide car bomb Attack killed eight people at a military checkpoint in the northern city of Mosul, Iraq, Monday, said police and hospital sources.

The attack, which took place in Mosul, 390 kilometers north of Baghdad, also wounding eight people, including six soldiers, Reuters reported.

"An explosion that destroys everything. It seems like there isn't anything here before the explosion, "said a policeman at the scene who declined to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

There is no party that claimed responsibility for the attack, but Sunni guerrillas often launch such attacks in an attempt to destabilize the Government and encourage the return of sectarian violence like in 2005-2008.

The bombing showed an increase in attacks in the midst of a political crisis between Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his Government partners and protest marches over the past few weeks demanding his resignation.

Iraq is engulfed in political chaos and violence that killed thousands of people since u.s. forces completed a withdrawal from the country on 18 December 2011, leaving security responsibilities to Iraq troops.

In addition to having problems with the Kurds, Iraq's Government is also at odds with Sunni groups.

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (Shiite) since December 2011 sought the arrest of Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi on charges of terrorism and attempting to dismiss Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-absolute. Both are Sunni leaders.

The scholars warn that Maliki is encouraging sectarian divisions, and protestors gathered in the streets of Iraq by carrying banners in support of the Government and criticized Hashemi.

Iraq officials issued an arrest warrant for Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi on December 19, 2011 after they gain recognition that connect him with terrorist activity.

Dozens of guards of Hashemi, a Sunni Arab leader, was arrested in a few weeks after the announcement, but it is not clear how many people were now on hold.

Hashemi, who denied the allegations, was hiding in the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq, and Kurdish leaders refused to pass them to Baghdad.

The Kurdish government even allowed the regional visit to Hashemi did Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. (M014)

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