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A spokesman for the coalition forces in Iraq, General Kevin Bergnr that initial investigations into the bombing, which targeted the town of Freedom on Tuesday proved the involvement of groups associated with Iran, as saying. واضاف بيرغنر في المؤتمر الصحافي المشترك مع الجنرال بروكس باش قائد فريق التدريب في قوة طيران القوات المتعددة الجنسيات الذي عقد ببغداد الأربعاء: He added Bergnr joint press conference with General Brooks Bash team leader Force flight training in the multinational forces which was held in Baghdad Wednesday: "التحقيقات ما تزال جارية، وهناك أشخاص يشتبه بوقوفهم وراء الحادث، وهم أعضاء في خلية للمجاميع الخاصة المرتبطة بايران ولدينا معلومات استخباراتية تؤكد أن الهجوم نفذ من هذه المجموعات وليس من تنظيم القاعدة". "Investigations are still ongoing, and there are people suspected of being behind the incident, members of the cell aggregates associated with Iran and we have intelligence information confirm that the attack carried out by these groups and not from Al Qaeda." وعن مطالبة الحكومة العراقية من القوات الأميركية رفع يدها عن حماية معسكر أشرف الخاص بمنظمة مجاهدي خلق الايرانية في محافظة ديالى شمالي بغداد قال بيرغنر: And the Iraqi government called for U.S. forces lift its control of Camp Ashraf protect private MKO Iran in Diyala province north of Baghdad, said Bergnr: "نحن نتفهم مخاوف الحكومة العراقية من وجود منظمة مجاهدي خلق الايرانية في محافظة ديالى وستناقش مع إدارة الجيش الأميركي، وقد أخبرتني السفارة الأميركية �

The study is the latest in a long series of attempts to come up with realistic numbers of civilian deaths. The numbers are politically fraught, and researchers' work has been further complicated by problems in collecting data while working in a war zone. The estimates have varied widely. The Iraq Body Count, a nongovernmental group based in Britain that bases its numbers on news media accounts, put the number of civilians dead at 47,668 during the same period of time as the World Health Organization study, the W.H.O. report said. President Bush in the past used a number that was similar to one put forward at the time by the Iraq Body Count. But another study, by Johns Hopkins, which has come under criticism for its methodology, cited an estimate of about 600,000 dead between the war's start, in March 2003, and July 2006. The World Health Organization said its study, based on interviews with families, indicated with a 95 percent degree of statistical certainty that between 104,000 and 223,000 civilians had died. It based its estimate of 151,000 deaths on that range. Those figures made violence the leading cause of adult male deaths in Iraq and one of the leading causes of death for the population as a whole, the health organization research team reported online in the New England Journal of Medicine. More than half the violent deaths occurred in Baghdad. While the new study appears to have the broadest scope to date, increasing its reliability, well known limitations of such efforts in war areas make it unlikely to resolve debate about the extent of the killing in Iraq. Iraqi officials gave conflicting assessments of the newest study, with one senior Health Ministry official praising it and another saying the numbers were exaggerated. The White House said that it had not seen the study and would not comment on its estimated death toll, but that the recent increase in American forces had reduced civilian and military casualties. "We mourn

Iran is getting nervous about aircraft fying in the air corridors adjacent to their air space. Israel is making arrangments to remove the nuclear sites in Iran.