News

There has been an outburst of terrorist attacks by Sunni insurgents in the
south of Iraq, coinciding with the movement of the Iraqi National Guard to
northern Iraq to deal with the conflict in Kurdistan. There has been great
dissatisfaction within the Sunni community with the Shiite government of
Iraq; there are suspicions that the Sunni militia is preparing to
overthrow the government within days.

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Clarification
According to the US president the former Defence Minister of Iraq is now in prison and has therefore not become involved with the USNSC. This information has been spread by an unknown source within the Iraqi cabinet.