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05-26-2004, 05:59 PM
- Three U.S. soldiers were wounded Sunday north of Fallujah by an improvised explosive device, a coalition official told CNN. Fallujah is the flashpoint city west of Badhdad where insurgent fighting has left many U.S. troops dead and where four U.S. contractors were killed and mutilated on March 31.
- Iran acknowledged it had lines of communication with Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi, whose home was raided Thursday by Iraqi authorities. But Tehran denied that it had received classified information from Chalabi about U.S. troops in the region. [Full Story] (http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/23/chalabi.iran.ap/)
- President Bush will deliver an "important speech" about the transfer of political power in Iraq on Monday night, a White House spokesman said Friday. Bush's address, to be delivered at 8 p.m. at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, will be the first in a series of prime-time speeches intended to lay out the way forward in Iraq, according to White House officials. [Full Story] (http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/21/bush.iraq/index.html)
- Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt said Saturday that dozens of people killed in a U.S. attack in the Iraqi desert early Wednesday were attending a high-level meeting of foreign fighters, not a wedding. Kimmitt said six women were among the dead, but he said there was no evidence any children died in the raid near the Syrian border. Coalition officials have said as many as 40 people were killed.
- A suicide car bomb exploded Saturday morning outside the Baghdad home of Iraq's deputy interior minister, killing six Iraqis and wounding at least 10 others, including the minister and his wife, an Iraqi police official said.
- A senior U.S. official confirmed on Friday that the U.S. military operated a secret interrogation facility at or near Baghdad International Airport. The site had not been previously disclosed. U.S. Special Forces participated in running the site, he said. Two other intelligence experts have confirmed the existence of another interrogation facility as well. [Full Story] (http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/21/iraq.main/index.html)
- Iran acknowledged it had lines of communication with Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi, whose home was raided Thursday by Iraqi authorities. But Tehran denied that it had received classified information from Chalabi about U.S. troops in the region. [Full Story] (http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/23/chalabi.iran.ap/)
- President Bush will deliver an "important speech" about the transfer of political power in Iraq on Monday night, a White House spokesman said Friday. Bush's address, to be delivered at 8 p.m. at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, will be the first in a series of prime-time speeches intended to lay out the way forward in Iraq, according to White House officials. [Full Story] (http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/21/bush.iraq/index.html)
- Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt said Saturday that dozens of people killed in a U.S. attack in the Iraqi desert early Wednesday were attending a high-level meeting of foreign fighters, not a wedding. Kimmitt said six women were among the dead, but he said there was no evidence any children died in the raid near the Syrian border. Coalition officials have said as many as 40 people were killed.
- A suicide car bomb exploded Saturday morning outside the Baghdad home of Iraq's deputy interior minister, killing six Iraqis and wounding at least 10 others, including the minister and his wife, an Iraqi police official said.
- A senior U.S. official confirmed on Friday that the U.S. military operated a secret interrogation facility at or near Baghdad International Airport. The site had not been previously disclosed. U.S. Special Forces participated in running the site, he said. Two other intelligence experts have confirmed the existence of another interrogation facility as well. [Full Story] (http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/05/21/iraq.main/index.html)