18 + Iraqis Killed Today
Good Morning,At least 18 people were killed Saturday in Iraq, including a Sunni cleric from a tribe opposed to al-Qaida in Iraq, who was slain while shot and killed while driving in Samarra, about 60 miles north of Baghdad, police said.
A parked car packed with explosive exploded in a residential district of Kirkuk, killing four people and injuring another 13, police said. It was the sixth car bombing this month in Kirkuk, where tensions are rising among Arabs, Kurds and Turkomen for control of the area's vast oil wealth.
The western regional commander of the Iraqi Border Protection Force, Brig. Gen. Jawad Hadi al-Selawi, was killed in Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, police said.
Iraq's national soccer coach resigned after receiving a death threat, sports officials said. The country's wresting coach was killed July 13. Two days later, more than 30 sporting officials, including the chairman of Iraq's Olympic Committee, were seized during a meeting in Baghdad.
At least 10 of them have been freed, but dozens are still missing, including National Olympic Committee chairman Ahmed al-Hijiya.
Have a nice day.
posted by Wink @ 11:01 AM
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