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13 Iraqis Killed, 5 Wounded

Good morning,

In violence today - Thursday, gunmen killed 12 members of an extended Shiite family near Latifiyah, a Sunni Arab-dominated town about 20 miles south of Baghdad. Police Capt. Hussein Shamil said the men were taken from their homes, packed into a minivan and shot. No further details were available.
A martyr bomber detonated his explosives belt on a street near the Interior Ministry, killing one police officer and wounding four, police said. Gunmen in Baghdad assassinated an Iraqi driver working with a French company, police Capt. Qassem Hussein said, adding that a university student in northwestern Baghdad was killed in a drive-by shooting.
U.S. airstrikes launched by two F-16 fighter jets in Kirkuk province killed 10 insurgents on Tuesday, the military said Thursday.
The military said the pilots saw three men planting roadside bombs. The pilots killed the three and seven others with them after dropping two 500-pound, laser guided bombs, the military said.
Also Thursday, a spokesman for Iraq's oil ministry said the country's largest oil refinery had suspended operations after insurgents threatened to kill drivers and blow up trucks that distribute its oil products across Iraq.
The 140,000 barrel-a-day refinery in

posted by Wink @ 9:39 AM