Winks Blog

11 Killed, 3 Bodies Found, 10 Wounded

Good morning,

It is the third anniversary of the US attack on Iraq. Nearly 35,000 (Conservative estimate) innocent Iraqi Citizens have been killed so far. Today the voilence continues.

Police said eight civilians, including a child, were killed in clashes between U.S. troops and gunmen in Duluiyah, 45 miles north of Baghdad. The town is in the Sunni Arab heartland where the Iraqi army and U.S. soldiers opened an airborne campaign last week to hunt for insurgents.

Elsewhere, two civilians were killed and 10 wounded when gunmen attacked U.S. troops stationed at the governor's office in Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad. Firefighters were seen pulling furniture from a burning house set ablaze in the crossfire.

In the capital, police found the bullet-riddled bodies of three men bound hand and foot and dumped in a sewage treatment plant in the southeast neighborhood of Rustamiyah. The victims appeared to be the latest in the wave of revenge killings set off by the Feb. 22 bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra.

Assailants in southwest Baghdad also gunned down a man as he was leaving a Shiite mosque, police said.

Those deaths came a day after a dozen other suspected victims in the shadowy Shiite-Sunni reprisal spree were found in the capital.

Have a nice day.

posted by Wink @ 11:43 AM