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16 + people killed on Christmas Day

Merry Christmas:

In violence around Iraq on Christmas Sunday:
_ A car bomb targeting a police patrol in northern Kirkuk killed an Iraqi civilian, and injured eight others _ including three police officers.
_ A gunbattle between police and a group in Kirkuk left one attacker dead, the city's police director said.
_ Unidentified gunmen killed Salman Jadr, a bank employee in eastern Baghdad, Police Lt. Col. Hafiz Maan said, adding that the man had once reportedly been a member of Saddam's now outlawed Baath party.
_ Unidentified gunmen killed a man near his house in Jbala, 40 miles south of Baghdad, police said.
_The head of the Iraqi student union in northern Mosul, Qusai Salahuldin, was found dead two days after he was kidnapped, a hospital official said.
_ Three men were killed in Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, when a mortar they were trying to fire exploded, police said.
_ Unidentified gunmen killed a man in Baghdad's southern Dora neighborhood as he was driving his children to school, a hospital official said.
_ Police Lt. Col. Fawzi Ali Uklaa was killed when a roadside bomb exploded as he was getting out of his car in eastern Mosul, Police Brig. Saied Ahmed Al-Jubori said.
_ Unidentified gunmen killed a police officer in civilian clothes in southern Baghdad, a hospital official said.

Have a happy holiday

posted by Wink @ 7:34 AM