Middle East Update中東更新

Iraqis are returning to their homeland by the hundreds each day, by bus, car and plane, encouraged by weeks of decreased violence and increased security, or compelled by visa and residency restrictions in neighboring countries.伊拉克人正在返回家園，由數百名每一天，巴士，汽車和飛機，鼓舞週減少暴力和更高的安全性，或強迫簽證和居留的限制，在周邊國家。 (By Sudarsan Raghavan, The Washington Post) （ sudarsan拉加，華盛頓郵報）

Caroline Glick (Jerusalem Post)加路連山glick （耶路撒冷郵報）
Former federal prosecutor and the head of the non-governmental International Intelligence Summit, John Loftus, has released a report on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction program, based on a private study of captured Iraqi documents.前聯邦檢察官和主管的非政府國際情報首腦會議上，約翰洛夫特斯，已發表了一份報告，對伊拉克的大規模殺傷性武器計劃的基礎上，一個私人研究被俘的伊拉克文件。

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British soldiers began withdrawing Sunday from their last base inside the southern Iraqi city of Basra, a move likely to prompt a further reduction in troop numbers, lawmakers and officials said.英軍士兵撤回週日開始從他們的最後基地內的伊拉克南部城市巴士拉，此舉可能促使進一步削減部隊人數，國會議員和官員說。 Around 550 soldiers stationed in the Basra Palace base were leaving the downtown site to join 5,000 other personnel at an [...]靠近550士兵駐紮在巴士拉宮殿基地離開市中心的網站加入5000的其他人員在一[ … … ]

Salam Faraj薩拉姆法拉傑
“After several rockets hit FOB (Forward Operating Base) Hammer on July 11, the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team maneuvered to find the source of the attack,” “經過幾火箭擊中離岸價（前進作業基地）錘7月11日，第三重型旅戰鬥隊機動，以找到問題的根源攻擊， ”
a US military statement said July 13.美國軍方在聲明中說， 7月13日。 The next morning an第二天早上一
“unmanned aerial vehicle located 46 rocket launchers in the northern section of Besmaya Range Complex aimed at FOB Hammer.” “無人機位於46火箭發射器，在北段besmaya一系列複雜的，目的是在離岸價錘” 。

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki shrugged off US doubts of his government’s military and political progress Saturday, saying Iraqi forces are capable and American troops can leave “anytime they want.”總理nouri基地-馬利基擺脫美國的疑慮，他的政府的軍事和政治進步週六說，伊拉克部隊有能力和美國的部隊可以離開“任何時候他們希望” 。

Iraqi security forces seized 200 explosive belts found during a search of a truck that had crossed into Iraq from Syria, Interior Ministry spokesman Maj.-Gen.伊拉克安全部隊繳獲200炸藥帶，發現在搜查一輛卡車已越界進入伊拉克從敘利亞內政部發言人少校根。 Abdul-Karim Khalaf said.阿卜杜勒卡里姆khalaf說。
American military spokesman Brig.-Gen.美國軍方發言人brig.根。 Kevin Bergner said 60 to 80 foreign fighters enter Iraq “in any given month” - 70% of them through Syria.凱文伯格納說， 60至80名外國武裝分子進入伊拉克， “在任何一個月” -7 0％的人通過敘利亞。 He said up to [...]他說，直至[ … … ]

A major Sunni political party on Monday July 2 demanded that the US and Iraqi militaries halt a security operation aimed at rooting out insurgents in and around the Diyala province city of Baquba.一個主要的遜尼派政黨對週一7月2日要求美國和伊拉克軍隊停止安全行動旨在剷除叛亂分子和周圍的迪亞拉省城市巴古拜。

A top special operations officer from Lebanon’s Iranian-backed militia Hezbollah has been captured in Iraq, where US officials say he played a key role in a January attack that killed five Americans.最特別行動人員從黎巴嫩的伊朗支持的真主黨民兵已抓獲在伊拉克，美國官員說，他發揮了關鍵作用，在1月1日的襲擊事件造成五美國人。

An Iraqi court on Sunday June 24, sentenced Saddam Hussein’s cousin known as “Chemical Ali” and two other former regime officials to death by hanging for their roles in a 1980s scorched-earth campaign that led to the deaths of 180,000 Kurds.伊拉克法庭對週日6月24日，被判處薩達姆的堂弟被稱為“化學阿里”和其他兩位前政權官員，以絞刑，為發揮他們的作用，在20世紀80年代焦土運動導致死亡， 18.0萬庫爾德人。

More than four years after the fall of Baghdad, the United Nations is spending millions of dollars in Iraqi oil money to continue the hunt for Saddam Hussein’s alleged weapons of mass destruction.四年多來在巴格達陷落後，聯合國的開支了數百萬美元的伊拉克石油的錢繼續追捕薩達姆的指控的大規模殺傷性武器。 (By Colum Lynch, The Washington Post) （柱證券公司，華盛頓郵報）