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27 Iraqis Killed, 8 Corpses Found

Good Morning,

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.

Have a nice day.

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posted by Wink @ 9:53 AM