Iran shells Iraqi border villages
Posted by Robert on June 7, 2008 10:20 AM
Act of war? "Sadrists protest US-Iraqi deal; Iran shells border villages - Summary," from [1] DPA, June 6 :
[...] Elsewhere, two border villages in Sulaymanyah province, 365 kilometers north of Baghdad, came under heavy Iranian artillery shelling on Friday morning, a spokesman for the Iraqi Kurdistan region's guard forces said."No information is yet available on possible casualties resulting from the shelling," the source was quoted as telling VOI.
Meanwhile, a local resident told VOI by phone that the two villages had earlier been evacuated due to the incessant Iranian fire. Only shepherds remained in the area, the source said.
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