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4 Killed Including Iraqi Chief of Intelligence, One Body Found, Several Wounded

Good Morning:

Defense Ministry official Maj. Gen. Abdul-Aziz Mohamed Jassim initially said all Baghdad residents must be off the streets from 2 p.m. until 6 a.m. Saturday, but al-Maliki later declared the ban would end after three hours.

Jassim also said the city was under a state of emergency that included a renewed prohibition on carrying weapons and gave Iraqi security forces broader arrest powers to prevent civilian casualties. He did not give a timeframe for those measures, and the prime minister's office said Saturday that no state of emergency was in place.

In violence Saturday, according to police:

_ A roadside bomb struck a police patrol near the al-Sadiq University for Islamic Studies in a predominantly Shiite area in northern Baghdad, killing two policemen and wounding three others.

_ Police found an unidentified body of a man who had been handcuffed, bound by the legs and shot to death in the capital.

_ A roadside bomb aimed at a patrol of police commandos missed its target but killed a civilian and wounded four others in western Baghdad, police said.

_ In the northern city of Kirkuk, a roadside bomb killed the local chief of intelligence, Maj. Gen. Mussa Hatam, along with two of his guards.

Have a nice day.

posted by Wink @ 11:25 AM