News Summary April 10, 2010

BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Following is a summary of news reports posted until 10:00 p.m. Baghdad local time Saturday – April 10:

* Politics:

BAGHDAD - Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad al-Bulani has stressed his country’s keenness to maintain Arab and foreign diplomatic presence in the capital Baghdad.

BAGHDAD - The Iranian ambassador to Iraq, Hassan Kazemi Qomi, on Saturday described the formation of the new Iraqi government as an “interior issue.”

* Security:

BAGHDAD - The Justice Ministry’s Reform Department on Saturday released 187 detainees after they had been acquitted of all the charges against them.

NINEWA - Twelve persons, including Iraqi border security guards, have been arrested on charges of smuggling goods between Iraq and Syria, a source from the U.S. army said on Saturday.

NINEWA - The Ninewa Operations Command has renewed a midnight curfew in the city for security reasons, an informed source said on Saturday.

DIALA - Iraqi Defense Minister Abdulqadir al-Obeidi has arrived in Diala and met with its military commanders to discuss the recent security developments in the province, an informed source said on Saturday.

BAGHDAD - Al-Qaeda-in-Iraq organization has claimed responsibility for last week’s suicide bombings that targeted the Egyptian consulate and a number of embassies in the capital Baghdad, the Egyptian newspaper al-Masry al-Yawm said on Saturday.

NINEWA - A joint U.S.-Iraqi force has found an arms cache in a border area in Ninewa, an informed source said on Saturday.

NINEWA - One Iraqi policeman has died of the wounds he sustained in an explosive charge blast that hit his patrol near Talafar, an informed source said on Saturday

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