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  •  a few more from yesterday (32+ / 0-)

    from the blog Iraq Today:

    Baghdad

    Two car bombs exploded minutes apart in a busy Baghdad market in a mainly Shiite district Sunday, killing at least 18 people, police said. Reuters adds that mortar rounds also fell in the area as part of an apparently coordinated attack.

    Repeat, higher numbers:  Also Sunday, a suicide bomber blew himself up on a minibus in northwest Baghdad, killing at least eight people and wounding 11, police and hospital officials said. The blast occurred shortly after noon near a courthouse in the al-Utafiyah neighborhood. Many of the victims were severely burned, an official at the Khazimiyah Hospital said.

    A parked minibus exploded in the Karradah neighbourhood of central Baghdad today, killing nine civilians and wounding 12 others, police and hospital officials said. The blast damaged several cars and nearby shops, witnesses said

    The Iraqi army killed four insurgents and wounded 17 others during the last 24 hours in different parts of Iraq, the Defence Ministry said.

    Basra

    British troops providing backup for an Iraqi police raid in Basra's Hayaniya district overnight shot five gunmen who opened fire on them, the British military said, adding that it could not confirm whether the five had been killed or wounded.

    Baiji

    Gunmen killed a police colonel and a policeman and wounded a police colonel and Major General in a drive-by shooting in the oil city refinery of Baiji, north of Baghdad, police said.

    Mosul

    From the same report, yet another car bomb targeted an Iraqi army patrol in western Mosul, wounding four people, the police officer added.

    Al Anbar Prv

    Mohammed Ismail, a local al-Qaeda leader, was found shot dead in the Sunni stronghold of Ramadi, west of Baghdad on Saturday, police Lieutent Colonel Ahmed Hamid said.

    Khalidiya

    Two bodies were found in Khalidiya, 83 km (50 miles) west of Baghdad, police said. They had been shot and showed signs of torture.

    Fallujah

    Eleven people were kidnapped at a fake checkpoint in the village of al-Zidan, 5 km southeast of Falluja city, an Iraqi police source said on Sunday.

    Khanqin (Diyala province)

    An Iraqi National Guard patrol found the bodies of six fuel tanker drivers, five of them Iranians and the sixth an Iraqi, an Iraqi police source said on Sunday.

    Missan (Amara)

    A former member of the dissolved Baath Party was killed in an explosive device attack in central al-Amara, an eyewitness said on Sunday.

    Karbala

    Updated casualty toll from yesterday's market bombing is 47 dead and 224 wounded.

    And, no matter how many we collect from the media, there are always deaths and security incidents that never get reported to the media.

    (¯`*._(¯`*._(-IMPEACH-)_.*´¯)_.*´¯)

    by dancewater on Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 11:08:20 AM PDT

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