9 Killed 8 Corpses Found
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Bombs and drive-by shootings Sunday killed nine people in Iraq, and the bodies of seven Iraqi men who apparently were kidnapped and tortured were found in three areas of the capital.
The deadliest attack Sunday involved a roadside bomb that exploded on a highway south of Baghdad, killing three security contractors and wounding two. Police said the victims were all British. The British Embassy in Baghdad and the Foreign Office in London confirmed the attack but did not yet know the victims' nationalities, identities or employer.
The roadside bomb hit an SUV carrying the contractors at 9:30 a.m. about 30 miles south of Baghdad, killing three people and wounding two, an Iraqi policeman said, speaking on condition of anonymity to protect his own security.
One of the most brutal killings Sunday occurred in the town Jurf al-Saghar, south of Baghdad. Residents discovered a corpse inside a private car and called police. When several officers arrived, explosives packed inside the vehicle were set off by remote control, killing one policeman and wounding two, said police Capt. Muthana Khalid.
The bullet-ridden bodies of seven Iraqi men also were found in three different areas of Baghdad. All had been tortured and killed in captivity, police said. Such sectarian violence by Sunni Arab and Shiite death squads has become common lately in Baghdad.
In other violence Sunday:
_Four drive-by shootings in Baghdad killed four civilians, including Talib Niama, an employee in the Trade Ministry.
_A roadside bomb hit a U.S. military convoy in central Tikrit, the hometown of deposed leader Saddam Hussein, said police Maj. Ahmed Awad said. He said the blast set a Humvee ablaze, causing U.S. casualties, but the U.S. command could not immediately confirm that.
_In Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, gunmen attacked three policemen traveling in a car carrying the salaries of police in Fallujah, killing one, wounding another, and kidnapping the third with the bag of money, police said.
_Two roadside bombs targeting separate Iraqi police patrols exploded within a half hour of each other in two areas of western Baghdad, wounding two policemen and a civilian driving nearby, police said.
_In Sadr City, a Shiite slum of Baghdad, a bomb exploded aboard a minibus near a gas station, wounding three Iraqi civilians, said police Lt. Thair Mahmoud. Many Iraqis pay small fees to travel around the capital in privately owned minibuses.
_A roadside bomb in Musayyib, 40 miles south of Baghdad, missed a police patrol but wounded a civilian, said police Capt. Muthana Khalid said.
_A roadside bomb exploded near a U.S. convoy in Rawah, 175 miles northwest of Baghdad, witnesses said, but casualties were not immediately reported.
_A roadside bomb targeting an American convoy in Amiriyah, western Baghdad, wounded an Iraqi civilian, said police Capt. Jamel Hussein said.
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16 Killed - 6 Tortured In Captivity, Aprox 100,000 Families Flee Homes
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Sectarian violence has forced about 100,000 families across Iraq to flee their homes, a top Iraqi official said, as six more Iraqis were killed in scattered violence on Saturday.
Dr. Salah Abdul-Razzaq, spokesman of the Shiite Endowment, a government body that runs Shiite religious institutions, put the number of displaced families at 13,750 nationwide, or about 90,000 people.
That includes 25,000 Iraqis who have fled their homes since the bombing of a Shiite mosque in Samarra on Feb. 22 triggered a wave of attacks on Sunni mosques and clerics.
Earlier this week, U.S. spokesman Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch told reporters that U.S. forces had found no "widespread movement" of Shiites and Sunnis away from religiously mixed areas, despite reports to the contrary by Iraqi officials.
In Ghazaliyah in west Baghdad, a roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol killed one policeman and wounded two, said police Lt. Mohammed Hanoun. Elsewhere in the capital, a drive-by shooting killed two Iraqi brothers who worked for a foreign contracting company and were walking through the eastern neighborhood of New Baghdad, said police 1st Lt. Ali Abbas.
In Saturday's worst violence, the bodies of six handcuffed, blindfolded and tortured men were found in the Baghdad neighborhood of Dora, said police Capt. Jamil Hussein. The area has seen frequent sectarian violence.
Also, gunmen kidnapped a Sunni policeman and his brother from their home in the Sunni-dominated town of Jurf al-Sakhar early Saturday and shot them to death, said police Capt. Muthana Khalidin. The town, 43 miles south of Baghdad, is near the mostly Shiite city of Musayyib.
Eight other Iraqis were killed in scattered violence.
_Insurgents with rocket-propelled grenades attacked an Iraqi army convoy 25 miles south of Baghdad, killing two soldiers and wounding six, said army Lt. Fikrat Mohammed Hassan.
_Gunmen in a village 90 miles north of Baghdad attacked a minibus carrying female students from Diyala University, killing a woman and her father, who was driving, police said.
_A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol killed one policeman and wounded two in the Ghazaliyah neighborhood of west Baghdad, said police Lt. Mohammed Hanoun.
_Also in the capital, a drive-by shooting killed two Iraqi brothers who worked for a foreign contracting company as they walked through the eastern neighborhood of New Baghdad, said police 1st Lt. Ali Abbas.
_In western Iraq, a mortar round hit a home in Tal Afar, about 90 miles east of the Syrian border, killing one Iraqi civilian and wounding two children, police Brig. Ibrahim al-Jibouri said.
In southern Iraq, Iranian forces detained four engineers from Iraq's ministry of water who were on a boat on the Arvand River, which runs along the border and into the Persian Gulf, Iraqi police Capt. Mushtaq Kadhim said. Iran and Iraq have long argued about their line of control on the waterway.
A roadside bomb in Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad, hit a convoy Friday night carrying the city's police chief, Col. Sofian Mustafa, missing him but killing two of his bodyguards and wounding three others, said police Capt. Arkan Ali said.
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VP's Sister Murdered, 10 Killed, 16 Corpses Found
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A sister of Iraq's new Sunni Arab vice president was killed Thursday in a drive-by shooting in Baghdad, a day after the politician called for the Sunni-dominated insurgency to be crushed by force.
Mayson Ahmed Bakir al-Hashimi, 60, whose brother, Tariq al-Hashimi, was appointed by parliament as vice president Saturday, was killed by gunmen in a sedan as she left her southwestern Baghdad home with her bodyguard, said police Capt. Jamel Hussein. The bodyguard also died.
It was the second recent killing in Tariq al-Hashimi's immediate family. On April 13, his brother, Mahmoud al-Hashimi, was shot while driving in a mostly Shiite area of eastern Baghdad.
Insurgents have targeted prominent men and women politicians in the past. On April 17, the brother of another leading Sunni politician, Saleh al-Mutlaq, was found dead after he was kidnapped.
The clashes northeast of Baghdad occurred when insurgents attacked four Iraqi police checkpoints in Baqouba, a Sunni-Shiite city 35 miles northeast of the capital, police and residents said. Five Iraqis were killed _ five policemen and two civilians _ said Dr. Ahmed Foad, director of a local morgue. U.S. forces have been gradually turning over security responsibilities to the Iraqis in Baqouba.
In a separate incident in Ramadi, one Iraqi soldier was killed during a fire fight with insurgents, army officers said.
A roadside bomb in Baghdad hit an Iraqi army patrol, killing a soldier, police said.
The bodies of 16 Iraqis who had been kidnapped and tortured were found Thursday in Baghdad and other cities, police said.
At least 141 Iraqis have been killed in insurgency- or sectarian-related violence since al-Maliki was tapped as prime minister Saturday and asked to form a new government
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15+ Iraqis Killed, 28 Corpses Found, 7 Car Bombs
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A string of car bombs rocked Baghdad on Monday, killing 10 people and wounding nearly 80 in an apparent campaign to discredit Iraq's new leadership. At least 15 people were killed in other bombings and shootings.
Police also discovered the bodies of 28 people in the capital and the northern city of Mosul. They included 15 police recruits from Ramadi who were kidnapped Sunday and slain by insurgents, police said.
The seven car bombs exploded over a five-hour period in six widely separated neighborhoods across the capital. The first blast occurred near the Health Ministry and killed five people, Lt. Col. Faleh al-Mohammedawi said.
Two hours later, bombs hidden in two cars exploded near Mustansiriya University, killing five others, including a 10-year-old boy, al-Mohammedawi said. Blasts also occurred in central Baghdad, the Karradah district, Mansour and the New Baghdad area in the east of the capital.
Al-Mohammedawi put the total number of wounded at nearly 80, most of them in the two fatal bombings.
The bodies of the 15 police recruits from Ramadi were found in a small truck on the western edge of the capital, al-Mohammedawi said. All showed signs of torture. Insurgents in Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, have been warning fellow Sunnis against joining the police and army.
Three other bodies were found in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, including a university student who had been kidnapped earlier in the day, police said. The other bodies were found in separate areas of Baghdad.
The latest deaths brought to more than 70 the number of Iraqis reported killed in insurgency or sectarian-related violence since Jawad al-Maliki was formally tapped Saturday to head a national unity government. The United States believes a unity government of Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds is essential to halting the country's slide into chaos.
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27 Iraqis Killed, 8 Corpses Found
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The violence occurred one day after Iraq's parliament met inside the Green Zone to elect top government officials in a breakthrough in a long political standoff.
The three explosions occurred at about 8 a.m. outside a wall of the Green Zone where Iraq's Defense Ministry is located, killing seven Iraqi civilians and wounding eight, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. Three of the wounded worked at the ministry, an official there said.
At least eight other mortars or rockets exploded at about the same time on the other side of the Tigris River in central Baghdad, without causing injuries, police said.
Police Lt. Maitham Abdul-Razzaq said it was hard to identify the dead because the powerful blasts and shrapnel severed their limbs and destroyed their identification cards.
_ The bodies of eight Iraqi men apparently killed in captivity were discovered in two areas of Baghdad: six in Azamiyah and two in Sadr City.
_ Gunmen raided a real estate agency in Baghdad and killed its owner, who also was a volunteer for the Iraqi Red Crescent Society relief agency.
_ A roadside bomb targeting a convoy carrying a provincial police commander missed him but killed two policemen and wounded another near Beiji, prompting local officials to impose a curfew.
_ A drive-by shooting near Kirkuk killed Muhammed Fathi, director of the Ardhul Battra, a Turkish company working on the area's railways.
_ In Fallujah, about 1,000 residents held a funeral procession for Sheik Shaukit al-Kubaisi, a Sunni cleric and imam of a local mosque who was killed by gunmen on Saturday night.
_ A roadside bomb killed an Iraqi driver in Mahmoudiya, the U.S. military said. The explosion also killed one Iraqi child and wounded seven others who were playing nearby. U.S. soldiers operating in the area called a medical evacuation unit that rushed the wounded children to a nearby American hospital.
_ A roadside bomb exploded in Mosul, missing a U.S. convoy but killing two Iraqi civilians.
_ A large fire burned at a government oil and gas complex in northern Iraq on Sunday, but it was not known whether it was caused by an accident or sabotage.
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4 Killed, 22 Wounded, 11 Corpses Found
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Baghdad - A double roadside bomb explosion northeast of Baghdad killed three Iraqis and injured 22 others on Saturday, a security source said.
The first blast that took place inside a shop in al-Miqdadiya, 100 kilometers northeast of Baghdad, prompted dozens of Iraqis to gather close to the shop when a second bomb detonated, causing the casualties, the source said.
Another bomb exploded in al-Mahaweel, 80 kilometers south of Baghdad, wounding two Iraqi security personnel, according to a security source.
In a separate incident, security commander General Salam al- Maamouri survived an attempt on his life when a roadside bomb exploded in front of his convoy in Khatona, near al-Mahaweel.
Meanwhile, US troops raided a house in a Ramadi district, 110 kilometers west of Baghdad, killing an Iraqi man and four of his sons, a police source said.
The bullet-ridden bodies of 10 Iraqis were found in and around Baghdad, many blindfolded with their hands and legs bound in rope. Some appeared to have been tortured, and one had been decapitated, police said.
Police also found a body with signs of torture floating in the Tigris River in Kut, 100 miles southeast of Baghdad, said Hadi al-Ittabi, an employee of the Kut Forensic Center.
In Baghdad, gunmen in a speeding car sprayed a police patrol with machine-gun fire, killing one officer, police said. Gunmen killed a civilian riding in a car, and a roadside bomb wounded two policemen, police said.
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6 Killed Execution Style + 22 Killed
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In the latest violence Friday, six off-duty Iraqi soldiers were captured and shot execution-style outside a restaurant in northern Iraq, police said.
The soldiers were just leaving the restaurant after lunch there when they were seized by a group of unidentified gunmen waiting outside, said police Capt. Arkan Ali. The captives were taken to a nearby street, lined up and shot to death, Ali said.
The attack occurred in the industrial city of Beiji, where the soldiers had stopped en route to their military base in Mosul, 90 miles to the north.
Today at least 22 Iraqis were killed, including six in a car bombing in Tal Afar in western Iraq.
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6 People Killed, 23 Wounded, 4 Corpses Found
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April 18 (Reuters) - Following are security incidents in Iraq on Tuesday as of 1345 GMT.
U.S. and Iraqi forces are battling a Sunni Arab insurgency against the Shi'ite- and Kurdish-led interim government. The bombing of a Shi'ite shrine in February has been followed by a surge in sectarian attacks.
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*YUSUFIYA - Police said they found the bodies of four unidentified men with multiple gunshot wounds and showing signs of torture northeast of Yusufiya, 15 km (9 miles) south of Baghdad.
BAGHDAD - Four civilians were killed and 22 people were wounded, including two policemen, when a roadside bomb exploded near a police patrol in northern Baghdad, police said.
BAIJI - Gunmen wounded a police colonel along with two policemen on Monday in the oil refinery city of Baiji, 180 km (112 miles) north of Baghdad, local officials said.
TIKRIT - Gunmen killed a policeman and wounded two others on Monday in Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, local officials said.
TIKRIT - Gunmen wounded the head of the local office of the Sunni Endowment group in an attack on Monday in Tikrit in which another employee was killed, local officials said.
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Attacks Nationwide Kill at Least 35, 25 + Wounded, 4 Corpses Found
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At least 10 people died in a car bombing near a Shiite mosque in an outdoor market in Mahmoudiya, 20 miles south of Baghdad, police said. Three others were killed when a bomb exploded on a minibus in a Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, police said.
Earlier Sunday, six people were killed when U.S. troops stormed a house looking for an al-Qaida suspect in Youssifiyah, 12 miles south of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. Six people, including the suspect, were arrested. The military didn't identify the suspect but said he worked with foreign fighters to plan bombings.
In other developments, according to officials:
_ Gunmen killed seven people in the northern city of Mosul as they drove from a police station where they had been working on renovations.
_ A minibus north of Baqouba also came under fire and five passengers were killed, police reported.
_ Two civilians were killed in an ambush south of Kirkuk.
_ Two policemen died in an ambush near Baghdad's Sadr City area.
_ Gunmen disguised as police commandos abducted 12 employees of a trading company in Baghdad.
_ The bodies of three police recruits were found Sunday just west of Ramadi. Police said notes left on the bodies said: "This is the punishment for new police recruits."
_ Police discovered three corpses of handcuffed men in Baghdad _ two that were pulled from the Tigris River and a third that was found in a gutter in an eastern neighborhood.
_ Police found the body of an Iraqi soldier in Hillah.
_ In Najaf, Brig. Gen. Abbas Maadal said 29 policemen remain unaccounted for three days after their convoy was ambushed near the U.S. base at Taji just north of Baghdad. Nine police were killed in the attack Thursday night. Maadal said officials were trying to determine if the missing police were dead, captured or in hiding.
At Least 12 Killed, 25 Injured, & 1 Corpse Found
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In todays bloodshed:
At least 12 Iraqis died in a car bombing near a Baghdad restaurant and other attacks.
A car bomb near a restaurant frequented by police in eastern Baghdad exploded at lunchtime, killing at least seven civilians and wounding nearly 25 people, including four policemen, officials said.
The blast damaged nearby shops and cars in the commercial district, where firefighters used hoses to wash away the debris in the street.
"When I pulled up to this place, the fire approached my car," said a witness, Sattar Jabbar, adding the flames burned his shirt.
Meanwhile, some Iraqi police missing after insurgents ambushed their convoy as they left a U.S. base Thursday evening began to return home to Najaf. By Saturday, about 75 of the 109 men who were attacked had returned, Brig. Gen. Abbas Maadal, the Najaf police chief, said. More than 30 policemen were still unaccounted for.
Policemen tried to call their missing colleagues but said their cell phones were being answered by men who laughed and said, "If you want them, come and get them."
The large convoy went to the U.S. Taji base north of Baghdad to pick up new vehicles. On their way home, they were ambushed near the base by insurgents who opened fire and triggered a roadside bomb. At least nine police were killed in the attack, according to the U.S. military, which helped provide air and ground support to end the assault.
Elsewhere, a roadside bomb exploded near an Iraqi army patrol in the southern Baghdad neighborhood of Dora, killing three soldiers and wounding three others, the army said.
A gunfight between insurgents and Iraqi forces operating a checkpoint in northwest Baghdad's Shula district killed at least two civilians and wounded four, police said.
At least one civilian was killed and two others wounded in fierce fighting between insurgents and the army in Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad, police said. Several cars were set on fire in the clash.
In the southern city of Basra, four gunmen killed the director of traffic police as he was driving to work, police said.
Police discovered a body, shot in the head, floating on a small river in Mahawil about 45 miles south of Baghdad.
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Get Ready World
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In the last few days there have been a couple different bombings at Mosques, one which killed dozens in Pakistan, and now a bombing in India which has injured 13 people. I believe that the sectarian violence (AKA civil war) in Baghdad has ignited violence in men in other countries. Countries seen as friendly with the USA, are huge targets for increased violence. Male violence against religious groups will continue to fuel furror across countries. This just the beginning. Up in flames will be the institutions of various religions as they battle in retribution against each other in the name of their own God.
As we sit here insulated in our false security, I know it is just a matter of time before people in the US will experience first hand once again, another display of how much we are hated across the world. The policies and actions of this administration/regime only serve to enrage the Anti-American view. Until *we* have our own regime change, it is extremely doubtful that apoligies and healing will have a chance.
Until later...
5 Killed, 6 Iraqi Police Killed - Dozens Missing, 1 Corpse Found, 10 Wounded
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Dozens of policemen were missing Friday and at least six were dead after insurgents ambushed a police convoy near a U.S. base, officials said. A series of bombings killed at least five people in three Iraqi cities.
Insurgents set off roadside bombs and then opened fire Thursday night on a large police convoy near the U.S. base of Taji, just north of Baghdad. The policemen from the Shiite shrine city of Najaf, south of Baghdad, were returning home after picking up new vehicles at the base, police said.
A senior official in the Najaf governor's office said only 35 of the 80 policemen had returned by Friday to the city.
The attackers shouted "God is great!" and "Long live jihad!" as they swarmed about the burning vehicles firing at the police, survivors told authorities. Most of the vehicles were destroyed.
A senior official in the Najaf governor's office said only 35 of the 80 members of the convoy had made it back to the city. The others were either dead or unaccounted for, he said.
In other attacks, a pair of roadside bombings near two Sunni mosques in the city of Baqouba killed least four civilians and wounded six, police said. The two mosques _ Saad bin Maath mosque in the city's New Baqouba district and the al-Aqsa mosque in Katoun _ are about a mile apart, officials said.
A suicide car bomber in the southern province of Basra targeted a British military convoy outside the Shuaiba military base about 13 miles southwest of Basra city, killing at least one civilian and wounding four British troops, police said.
In the northern city of Mosul, at least seven people were wounded in another suicide car bomb attack on a police station, police said. Police saw the vehicle coming and fired at the driver, preventing him from entering the compound, an official said.
Back in Baghdad, police discovered the body of a handcuffed man, shot in the head, in the southern neighborhood of Dora.
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7+ People Killed, 6 Corpses Found
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In continuing violence, officials reported that at least seven people were killed _ including a U.S. soldier _ in scattered shootings and bombings, and six bodies were found.
In Baghdad's southern district of Dora, a bystander was killed in a gunfight between assailants and Iraqi police. A soldier wearing civilian clothes was gunned down near his home in the same neighborhood, where police also discovered a body, shot in the head, police said.
Police found four other corpses in northern and western Baghdad.
In the northern city of Mosul, gunmen killed a policeman who was driving his sons to school. One of the sons was also killed and the other seriously wounded, police said. In southern Iraq, the body of a barber kidnapped four days earlier was found in the city of Basra, police said.
A roadside bomb killed a U.S. soldier southwest of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. More American troops have died in the first two weeks of April _ 36 _ than in the entire month of March, when 31 died, according to an Associated Press count.
At least 2,365 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the war in 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
An Iraqi police commando was also killed in a roadside bombing, about 20 miles south of Baghdad in Mahmoudiya.
A car bomb threat in the northern city of Tikrit prompted a curfew to be imposed Thursday until further notice, police said.
Several pedestrians were wounded in roadside bombings and drive-by shootings in the capital. In Amarah, 180 miles southeast of Baghdad, a roadside bomb missed a British military convoy and hit a minibus instead, wounding three passengers, police said.
Late Wednesday, two Iraqi contractors who supply the army with food were killed by gunmen who stopped their car about 28 miles south of the northern city of Kirkuk.
Gunmen kidnapped the young daughter of an oil company employee in Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad. South of Kirkuk, a doctor who heads the health center in Daqouq was also abducted, police said.
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23 Killed, 24 Bodies Found
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Violence took at least 23 lives Tuesday. A car bombing killed five people, and three others died when a bomb exploded on a minibus, both attacks in Shiite areas of the capital, police said.
Police also found the bodies of 24 people _ apparent victims of sectarian death squads. Most of the bodies were found in Baghdad but it was unclear when they died, police said.
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3+ People Killed, 4 Bodies Found On "Freedom Day"
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Five roadside bombs killed at least three people in Iraq on Sunday _ the three-year anniversary of the Baghdad's fall to U.S. forces. Iraq police and soldiers bolstered security in the capital to prevent attacks on "Freedom Day."
The holiday marks the April 9, 2003 event in which a huge crowd of Iraqis cheered as U.S. Marines hauled down the statue of Saddam Hussein on Firdous Square, marking the collapse of his regime.
The "Freedom Day" holiday appeared to draw little public attention. The Iraqi Islamic Party, a the biggest Sunni party, issued a statement rejecting the day, saying it was "an anniversary of occupying Iraq, not liberating it."
"Iraqis are pleased and displeased," said Qassim Hassan, a soldier. "They are pleased because they got rid of tyranny and dictatorship, but they are displeased because they went from bad to worse. The Iraqi street is seething between sadness and terrorism."
Sunday's roadside bombs killed at least two civilians and a policeman. One targeting an Iraqi army patrol killed a passer-by in Mahmoudiya, about 20 miles south of the capital, and another bomb meant for police killed a civilian when it exploded at Maysaloun Square in eastern Baghdad.
Other bombings around Baghdad killed a policeman and wounded about a dozen others, police said. One of the attacks targeted police near a Sunni mosque in the western neighborhood of Ghazaliyah, wounding at least three people, police said. Another targeted a convoy of American military police, but there were no casualties, the U.S. military said.
Police discovered four bodies, handcuffed and at least one shot in the head, in the Dora district of southern Baghdad.
In Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, a man allegedly making a bomb was killed when it accidentally exploded inside a house, police said. Police arrested six others in the house after hearing the explosion, police Maj. Karim al-Tamimi said.
In Najaf, officials raised the death toll from last week's car bombing of the Imam Ali mosque to 13. Three Iraqis wounded in the bombing died Saturday, said Dr. Issa Mohammed, director of the morgue at Najaf General Hospital.
Police discovered four bodies, handcuffed and at least one shot in the head, in the Dora district of southern Baghdad.
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10 People Killed, 14 Wounded Death Toll Rises To 90 From Yesterdays Mosque Bombing, 4 Headless Bodies Found
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb killed six people Saturday near a Shiite shrine south of Baghdad, and the death toll from the deadliest attack of the year rose to nearly 90. A senior official warned Iraq was in an "undeclared civil war" that can be curbed only by a strong government and greater powers for security services.
The car bomb exploded at a small shrine in the Euphrates River town of Musayyib, 40 miles south of Baghdad. Police said most of the six dead and 14 wounded were Shiite pilgrims visiting the shrine.
Fears of more attacks are running high in Shiite areas following the Thursday car bombing that killed 10 in the Shiite holy city of Najaf and the suicide attack the following day against a Shiite mosque in Baghdad _ the deadliest attack in Iraq this year.
In other developments Saturday:
_ Police found four headless bodies showing signs of torture that were dumped on a farm about 20 miles north of Baghdad.
_ A mortar round hit a house near the Education Ministry in central Baghdad, killing two men, police said.
_Gunmen killed a Shiite cigarette vendor and police found the body of a man killed by a roadside bomb near a highway.
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79+ Killed & 164+ Injured in Mosque Bombing
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Martyr attackers wearing women's robes blew themselves up Friday in a Shiite mosque in northern Baghdad, killing at least 79 people and wounding more than 164, police said. It was the second major attack against Shiite targets in as many days.
The attack occurred as worshippers were leaving after Friday prayers, the main weekly religious service. Earlier Friday, the Interior Ministry cautioned people in Baghdad to avoid crowds near mosques and markets due to a car bomb threat.
A prominent Shiite politician, Jalal Eddin al-Sagheer, was among the worshippers but police said he was unhurt.
Rescuers carried the bodies from the mosque compound on makeshift wooden wheelbarrows and loaded them on the backs of pickup trucks. The Baghdad city council urged Iraqis to donate blood for those wounded.
On Thursday, a car bomb exploded about 300 yards from the Imam Ali mosque in Najaf, the most sacred shrine in Iraq for Shiite Muslims. Ten people were killed, police said.
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18 Killed, 40 Injured Near Mosque
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The holy Shiite city of Necef (Najaf) in southern Iraq was shaken by a series of car bomb attacks earlier today, killing at least 18 people and injuring about 40.
Eyewitnesses say more than 10 vehicles were destroyed in the attacks and a curfew was declared shortly after.
The attack was plotted just a few hundred meters from the holy Imam Ali Tomb.
In a shoot out at a police station 160 kilometers south of capital Bagdat (Baghdad) again today, five civilians lost their lives, and two were wounded.
In Ramada, a roadside bomb exploded as an American military vehicle passed, no information was released regarding the number of dead or injured.
In Kerkuk (Kirkuk), 250 kilometers north of Baghdad, a Kurdish captain was severely injured in a firearm attack.
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375 Iraqis Killed in 12/05, 608 Killed in 1/06, 741 Killed in 2/06, 1,038 Iraqis Killed in 3/06
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The AP count showed at least 375 Iraqi civilians killed in December, 608 in January and 741 in February. Most of the increase appeared to be a result of a sharp rise in the number of civilians found dead throughout Baghdad _ the apparent victims of sectarian reprisal killings.
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20 Killed 28+ Wounded, 4 Corpses Found
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb exploded Tuesday in a mostly Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, killing at least 10 and wounding 28, police said. Another blast killed a woman and two of her young sons in the capital, officials added.
The bombing in the mostly Shiite neighborhood of New Baghdad hit shortly after 7 a.m., killing the woman and two boys, 9 and 12. A third son, aged 13, was wounded, as were two brothers of a different family living in the same home, police said.
Assailants gunned down a judge driving in eastern Baghdad and killed a receptionist who works at the United Arab Emirates Embassy and his friend as they left the building, police said.
In Dora, one of Baghdad's most dangerous neighborhoods, gunmen killed an ice cream vendor and a person sitting with him in the vehicle, police said. A policeman who works at a morgue was also gunned down as he headed to his Dora home.
North of the capital, a car bomb targeted a convoy carrying a Samarra city council member's son, killing a security guard and a driver and wounding three other guards. The son, 19, was not harmed.
In southern Iraq, gunmen killed a policeman and wounded another as the two were driving in the city of Basra, police said.
Police discovered four corpses, apparent victims of the sectarian violence gripping Iraq. Two were found near a highway in western Baghdad's mostly Sunni neighborhood of Khadra, both handcuffed and showing signs of torture, and another in southwestern Baghdad's Shurta district, shot in the head. The other, also handcuffed, was found floating in a small river south of the capital, police said.
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At Least 1,038 Iraqi Civilians Killed In March 06
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In summary:
At least 1,038 Iraqi civilians died last month in war-related violence, according to an Associated Press count.
The AP count showed at least 375 Iraqi civilians killed in December, 608 in January and 741 in February. Most of the increase appeared a result of a sharp rise in the number of civilians found dead throughout Baghdad _ apparent victims of sectarian reprisal killings.
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14 Killed 30 Wounded
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A martyr bomber blew himself and his truckload of explosives outside a Western Baghdad Shiite Mosque today as worshipers left their prayer session. At least 10 people were killed and 30 were wounded.
Iraqi police also reported a dramatic attack on a Shiite family in Baghdad's Dora district, saying four gunmen charged into a home, lined up a brother, two sisters, and an uncle against a wall and shot them dead.
The father of the family, a grocery shop owner, had been killed six months earlier by gunmen in the same neighborhood, one of the most dangerous in the capital. The mother was visiting relatives when the attack occurred on Sunday, police said.
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6 Killed on 3/31 and At Least 22 Killed on 4/1/06
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At least 22 people were killed Saturday in fresh violence in Baghdad and Basra, Iraq's two largest cities. Six others _ all Shiites _ died Friday evening when gunmen opened fire on a minibus northeast of Baghdad, police said.
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