More than 1,300 men have been detained by the US military and the Iraqi government in the northern city of Mosul over the past 10 days, as part of an operation ostensibly aimed at smashing the Sunni fundamentalist insurgent organisation, Al Qaeda in Iraq. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced in January that a major … Continue reading Iraq: Mass detentions in Mosul as troops move into Sadr City