Mortars Kill 14 in Baghdad Coffee Shop

Attack on Shiite Neighborhood Seen As Retaliation For Earlier Attack on Sunnis Which Killed Seven

(CBS/AP)  Two mortar shells slammed into a coffee shop in a Shiite neighborhood in north Baghdad late Tuesday, killing at least 14 people and wounding 16 others, police said.

The attack appeared to have been in response to mortar fire on a Sunni neighborhood across the Tigris River earlier in the day that killed seven people and wounded 25.

The late-night attack on the Shiite al-Qreiaat neighborhood near the heavily Shiite Kazimiyah district occurred at 9:40 p.m., according to police 1st Lt. Bilal Ali Majid.

About nightfall, six mortar rounds crashed to earth in Azamiyah, a Sunni district, where vehicles with loudspeakers raced through the streets asking that blood donors and residents with bandages go the Grand Iman Abu Hanifa mosque, the holiest Sunni shrine in Baghdad.

An attack near the mosque on Saturday night killed five.

In other developments:

A somber and subdued Saddam Hussein called on Iraqis Tuesday to "forgive, reconcile and shake hands" as he returned to court for his Kurdish genocide trial. After rising during the afternoon testimony of witnesses of a mass killing of Iraqi Kurds in the 1987-88 Operation Anfal crackdown on Kurdish guerrillas, Saddam calmly spoke about how the Prophet Muhammad and Jesus had asked for forgiveness for those who had opposed them. "I call on all Iraqis, Arabs and Kurds, to forgive, reconcile and shake hands," Saddam said before resuming his seat.

Iraqi government officials say Saddam Hussein's former second-in-command has seconded Hussein’s call, asking Baath party leaders to end attacks. Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Saddam's former vice-president, is now a fugitive with a $10 million bounty on his head. Officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, say al-Douri issued the order through couriers sometime after Saddam was sentenced to hang on Sunday.

Jordanian lawyers staged a one-hour strike Tuesday to protest an Iraqi court's decision to sentence Saddam Hussein to death for crimes against humanity. Some 250 lawyers demonstrated outside the Palace of Justice in the Jordanian capital of Amman, shouting slogans against the death sentence handed down Sunday.

Iran called on Iraq on Tuesday to carry out its death sentence on Saddam Hussein, saying the former dictator who waged an eight-year war against Iran in the 1980s was a criminal who deserved to die. "We hope the fair, correct and legal verdict against this criminal ... is enforced," government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham told a news conference. "We hope no pressure will be applied not to carry out this verdict." The Iranian spokesman said his government hoped Saddam would continue to be tried for other alleged crimes against humanity, including his invading Iran in 1980, starting a war that killed more than a million Iranians and Iraqis.

A Marine pleaded guilty Monday to aggravated assault and conspiracy to obstruct justice in the case of an Iraqi civilian who other servicemen said was kidnapped and killed by members of the squad. Lance Cpl. Tyler A. Jackson, 23, was the third serviceman to plead guilty to reduced charges in return for his testimony. A Navy medic and one other Marine previously pleaded guilty to lesser charges and testified about the killing of 52-year-old Hashim Ibrahim Awad last April in the town of Hamdania.

The families of two British soldiers killed in Iraq are trying to persuade British judges to order a public inquiry into the legality of the war. The families say their sons were sent to Iraq on the basis of flawed legal advice. A judge on Britain's High Court last year dismissed the families' demand for an inquiry, but the Court of Appeal has ruled they can challenge the ruling. The families contend Britain has an implied obligation to hold an independent inquiry under Article Two of the European Convention of Human Rights, which protects the "right to life."

It appears the White House will be looking for a new ambassador to Iraq. A senior Bush administration official says the current ambassador will be quitting soon. Zalmay Khalilzad is expected to take a job either in the academic world or in the private sector. Exactly when he'll leave isn't clear, but the official says he will likely stay through the spring.

Two Marines and one soldier died in fighting in Iraq's restive Anbar province, the military said. The Marines were assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5 and the soldier was assigned to the 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division, a brief statement said.

Two more soldiers died in a helicopter crash early Monday in Salahuddin province, which includes Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, another statement said. No gunfire was observed in the area at the time of the crash, which was being investigated, it said. Those soldiers were members of Task Force Lightning, attached to the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, the military said. The deaths bring the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq this month to 18.

Still missing was a U.S. soldier kidnapped last month in Baghdad, and the man's Iraqi uncle said Monday he believed his nephew's abductors belong to a "well organized" rogue cell from the Shiite Mahdi Army militia of the anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Entifadh Qanbar, the uncle, said he had received a $250,000-ransom demand from the kidnappers, through an intermediary. He had in turn demanded proof that his nephew was alive and well before entering negotiations.

A day after Saddam Hussein was sentenced to hang, the Shiite-dominated government offered a major concession Monday to his Sunni backers that could see thousands of members of the ousted dictator's Baath party reinstated in their jobs.

With a tight curfew holding down violence after Saddam's guilty verdict and death sentence, the government reached out to disaffected Sunnis in hopes of enticing them away from the insurgency, which has killed tens of thousands of Iraqis and is responsible for the vast majority of U.S. casualties.

The U.S. military announced the deaths of five more American troops, two in a helicopter crash north of Baghdad and three in fighting west of the capital. The deaths raised to 18 the number of U.S. forces killed in the first six days of November.

Relentless sectarian killings also persisted despite the extraordinary security precautions. Fifty-nine bodies were discovered Sunday and Monday across Iraq, police said. But with no surge in violence, authorities were gradually lifting the restrictions in Baghdad and two restive Sunni provinces: Pedestrians were allowed back on the capital's streets late Monday afternoon, and the international airport was to reopen Tuesday morning.

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Watch RAW video of Iraqis protesting Saddam's sentence.
See photos from inside and outside the courtroom.

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Around the country, jubilant Shiites celebrated verdict on Saddam's trial

Shiites and their leaders are anxious to see Saddam executed quickly. His lawyers are appealing but many here expect the government will try to speed up that process, reports CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan.

If they succeed, it could be only a few months before Saddam Hussein is led from his prison cell and hanged by the neck.

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by pakaal November 8, 2006 12:35 AM EST

While we're dealing with the insanity of elections, the Iraqis are dealing with this reality. Sad.

Hopefully after the elections there will be a substantive change in how the US tries to help straighten out the mess we've made.

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by marcelde November 7, 2006 9:43 PM EST

The U.S. military announced the deaths of five more troops in Iraq Monday, bringing the American death toll for Novemeber to 18.

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by marcelde November 7, 2006 9:40 PM EST

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by marcelde November 7, 2006 9:39 PM EST

The U.S. military announced the deaths of five more troops in Iraq Monday, bringing the American death toll for Novemeber to 18.

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by marcelde November 7, 2006 9:37 PM EST

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by texaskos_com November 7, 2006 3:22 PM EST

gslinger3,

FDR was greatly admired during WWII.
Churchill was greatly admired during WWII.
Hell, even Hitler was admired by his people during much of WWII - till the truth rained bombs on their cities.

In fact, in most wars, the leaders, including this George Bush, enjoy at least early support b/c people are usually caught in patriotic emotions.

Only later, if things go bad, will reason prevail.

You, sir/madam, are a brain-washed fool. I pity you. It IS VERY difficult to admit you are wrong. No, much better to use some non-existent Future fantasy to justify your beliefs - when the Present fails your cozy belief system.

As someone said earlier, the sky is blue - no matter how much you say it isn't. Best of luck.

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by pakaal November 6, 2006 11:58 PM EST

This is probably one of the few real pieces of good news I've seen from Iraq. If the groups aren't talking, we can send as many troops as we want, we still won't be able to stop the collapse into civil war (despite what the Bush administration claims their "stay the course" plan will do - sometime in the forseeable future). If the Iraqis can manage to work together and find some way of reconciling their past differences, everybody wins, and our troops overseas can come home with a REAL mission accomplished.

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by thgdriver November 6, 2006 9:12 PM EST

The same weapons have been widely used in Afghanistan against the people of one of the most primitive societies in the world.

I am not so sure, are they the same "primitive" people that ran the USSR out of their country?,

Are they the same "primitive" people that set up the "terrorist camps" in the first place?

They found out the hard way, we are not the USSR, we are not getting into any more (Democratic) "President Johnson" style Vietnams.

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by alphaa10-2009 November 6, 2006 8:25 PM EST

gslinger3 said, "George Bush in 10 years time will go down as one of our greatest presidents and leaders! Presidents during wartime are rarly commended, instead they are usually ridiculed, just as you Liberal left wing radicals are doing!"
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Yeah, just like Nixon brought us "victory" in Vietnam?

The people you call "left wing radicals" happen to be the American people, angry over Bush's incompetence, political corruption, lawlessness, and native imbecility. His GOP camp followers only ditto Bush flaws, and in spades. If you pause to think about it, Americans are largely centrist and want a wholesale renovation of government, not more of the same. They do not care about party label, but do care about who delivers reform.

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by alphaa10-2009 November 6, 2006 8:16 PM EST

The trial of Saddam-- contrary to hope of US officials it would be a unifying factor for Iraqis-- has become a reminder to all of intensified sectarian division, and likely to set off renewed violence in the civil war.

Whatever the verdict of the Iraqi court might have been, that verdict is but one more nail in the coffin of a cynical and fraudulent Bush-led invasion, supposedly to "liberate" the Iraqis from Saddam.

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by bluestardad November 6, 2006 6:33 PM EST

Dictators is that a Washington Dish that Republican Mark Foley was covertly serving the Congressional pages, Or Is that a Texas Style potato dish that the Bush administration has been feeding the American people for the last few years?

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by shingles1 November 6, 2006 6:31 PM EST

Yeah, THAT Iran.

They must LOVE us.
First we get rid of their enemy, the Taliban.
Then we get rid of their other enemy, Saddam.
We yell and we scream about how they're the new Hitler, but then we end up doing them favors in the end.

It's strange.

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by November 6, 2006 5:57 PM EST

Iran, you mean the ones with the REAL weapons of mass destruction?

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by brianp55 November 6, 2006 4:49 PM EST

Anyone who believes that George Bush (Jr.) will go down in history as one of our greatest presidents is seriously deluded. Bush will be lucky if he's not tried for treason.

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by shingles1 November 6, 2006 3:42 PM EST

You know who's REALLY happy about the verdict?

Iran:

"Iran, which fought an 8-year-long war to fend off Saddam Hussein's armies, expressed delight at the death sentence handed down Sunday against him. "Hanging is the least he deserved," said one Iranian official. The Tehran Times gives more on the jubilant Iran reaction."

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by olebd November 6, 2006 2:27 PM EST

I don't consider myself republican or democrat....I just calls it as I sees it. And what I see ain't looking too good now or in the next 2 years.

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by gslinger3 November 6, 2006 12:59 PM EST

So650 protestors were out on pro Saddam marches. This is hardly a "split" as CBS puts it. The vast majority of Iraqis are rejoicing Saddams emminant hanging!

George Bush in 10 years time will go down as one of our greatest presidents and leaders! Presidents during wartime are rarly commended, instead they are usually ridiculed, just as you Liberal left wing radicals are doing!

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by bluestardad November 6, 2006 12:28 PM EST

go ahead and cut your wrist just do not bleed on the carpet on your way out of America

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by olebd November 6, 2006 12:26 PM EST

I think of all the domestic problems we could have taken care of in the past 6 years and sigh.

I think of all the lives lost in the past 6 years for ficticious reasons and sigh.

I think of what it will be like for our kids and grandkids to achieve a decent living in the future and sigh.

The slow death of the middle class.

Unbalanced free trade.

Corruption.

Greed.

I'm hyperventilating now.

I hope justice will finally prevail as soon as possible for America but it only seems to be getting darker and darker.

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by bluestardad November 6, 2006 11:59 AM EST

Saddam would have been our friend now and was given arms by America in the past. Prior to the first gulf war Saddam contacted the State Department and ask permission from the U. S. before he went into Kuwait to stop their slant drilling into his Oil Fields. Kuwait was starting drilling oil on their side of the border but slanted the drills under ground to reach the reserves under Iraqi soil. Saddam was told by the U. S. that America wanted no part in a Middle East war hearing that he took that as an American Green Light and subsequently he invaded Kuwait. This set a domino effect in motion that led us to where we are today with thousands of American deaths and billions of tax dollars spent, The Middle East and Iraq in Chaos and millions of Iraqi and Middle East civilian deaths. Now this leader that was our friend in the Middle East is going to be hanged.

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[pakaal]

While we're dealing with the insanity of elections, the Iraqis are dealing with this reality. Sad.

Hopefully after the elections there will be a substantive change in how the US tries to help straighten out the mess we've made.

[marcelde]

The U.S. military announced the deaths of five more troops in Iraq Monday, bringing the American death toll for Novemeber to 18.

[marcelde]

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[marcelde]

The U.S. military announced the deaths of five more troops in Iraq Monday, bringing the American death toll for Novemeber to 18.

[marcelde]

STAY THE CURSE! STAY THE CURSE! STAY THE CURSE! STAY THE CURSE! STAY THE CURSE! STAY THE CURSE! STAY THE CURSE! STAY THE CURSE! STAY THE CURSE! STAY THE CURSE! STAY THE CURSE! STAY THE CURSE! STAY THE CURSE! STAY THE CURSE! STAY THE CURSE! STAY THE CURSE! STAY THE CURSE! STAY THE CURSE!

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[texaskos_com]

gslinger3,

FDR was greatly admired during WWII.
Churchill was greatly admired during WWII.
Hell, even Hitler was admired by his people during much of WWII - till the truth rained bombs on their cities.

In fact, in most wars, the leaders, including this George Bush, enjoy at least early support b/c people are usually caught in patriotic emotions.

Only later, if things go bad, will reason prevail.

You, sir/madam, are a brain-washed fool. I pity you. It IS VERY difficult to admit you are wrong. No, much better to use some non-existent Future fantasy to justify your beliefs - when the Present fails your cozy belief system.

As someone said earlier, the sky is blue - no matter how much you say it isn't. Best of luck.

[pakaal]

This is probably one of the few real pieces of good news I've seen from Iraq. If the groups aren't talking, we can send as many troops as we want, we still won't be able to stop the collapse into civil war (despite what the Bush administration claims their "stay the course" plan will do - sometime in the forseeable future). If the Iraqis can manage to work together and find some way of reconciling their past differences, everybody wins, and our troops overseas can come home with a REAL mission accomplished.

[thgdriver]

The same weapons have been widely used in Afghanistan against the people of one of the most primitive societies in the world.

I am not so sure, are they the same "primitive" people that ran the USSR out of their country?,

Are they the same "primitive" people that set up the "terrorist camps" in the first place?

They found out the hard way, we are not the USSR, we are not getting into any more (Democratic) "President Johnson" style Vietnams.

[alphaa10-2009]

gslinger3 said, "George Bush in 10 years time will go down as one of our greatest presidents and leaders! Presidents during wartime are rarly commended, instead they are usually ridiculed, just as you Liberal left wing radicals are doing!"
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Yeah, just like Nixon brought us "victory" in Vietnam?

The people you call "left wing radicals" happen to be the American people, angry over Bush's incompetence, political corruption, lawlessness, and native imbecility. His GOP camp followers only ditto Bush flaws, and in spades. If you pause to think about it, Americans are largely centrist and want a wholesale renovation of government, not more of the same. They do not care about party label, but do care about who delivers reform.

[alphaa10-2009]

The trial of Saddam-- contrary to hope of US officials it would be a unifying factor for Iraqis-- has become a reminder to all of intensified sectarian division, and likely to set off renewed violence in the civil war.

Whatever the verdict of the Iraqi court might have been, that verdict is but one more nail in the coffin of a cynical and fraudulent Bush-led invasion, supposedly to "liberate" the Iraqis from Saddam.

[bluestardad]

Dictators is that a Washington Dish that Republican Mark Foley was covertly serving the Congressional pages, Or Is that a Texas Style potato dish that the Bush administration has been feeding the American people for the last few years?

[shingles1]

Yeah, THAT Iran.

They must LOVE us.
First we get rid of their enemy, the Taliban.
Then we get rid of their other enemy, Saddam.
We yell and we scream about how they're the new Hitler, but then we end up doing them favors in the end.

It's strange.

Iran, you mean the ones with the REAL weapons of mass destruction?

[brianp55]

Anyone who believes that George Bush (Jr.) will go down in history as one of our greatest presidents is seriously deluded. Bush will be lucky if he's not tried for treason.

[shingles1]

You know who's REALLY happy about the verdict?

Iran:

"Iran, which fought an 8-year-long war to fend off Saddam Hussein's armies, expressed delight at the death sentence handed down Sunday against him. "Hanging is the least he deserved," said one Iranian official. The Tehran Times gives more on the jubilant Iran reaction."

[olebd]

I don't consider myself republican or democrat....I just calls it as I sees it. And what I see ain't looking too good now or in the next 2 years.

[gslinger3]

So650 protestors were out on pro Saddam marches. This is hardly a "split" as CBS puts it. The vast majority of Iraqis are rejoicing Saddams emminant hanging!

George Bush in 10 years time will go down as one of our greatest presidents and leaders! Presidents during wartime are rarly commended, instead they are usually ridiculed, just as you Liberal left wing radicals are doing!

[bluestardad]

go ahead and cut your wrist just do not bleed on the carpet on your way out of America

[olebd]

I think of all the domestic problems we could have taken care of in the past 6 years and sigh.

I think of all the lives lost in the past 6 years for ficticious reasons and sigh.

I think of what it will be like for our kids and grandkids to achieve a decent living in the future and sigh.

The slow death of the middle class.

Unbalanced free trade.

Corruption.

Greed.

I'm hyperventilating now.

I hope justice will finally prevail as soon as possible for America but it only seems to be getting darker and darker.

[bluestardad]

Saddam would have been our friend now and was given arms by America in the past. Prior to the first gulf war Saddam contacted the State Department and ask permission from the U. S. before he went into Kuwait to stop their slant drilling into his Oil Fields. Kuwait was starting drilling oil on their side of the border but slanted the drills under ground to reach the reserves under Iraqi soil. Saddam was told by the U. S. that America wanted no part in a Middle East war hearing that he took that as an American Green Light and subsequently he invaded Kuwait. This set a domino effect in motion that led us to where we are today with thousands of American deaths and billions of tax dollars spent, The Middle East and Iraq in Chaos and millions of Iraqi and Middle East civilian deaths. Now this leader that was our friend in the Middle East is going to be hanged.