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Security incidents in Iraq, Aug 7
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Insurgents killed at least 35 people in a series of attacks throughout
Iraq, while clashes between police and protestors in a poor southern Shiite town added to the day's death toll, security officials said.
Iraq, while clashes between police and protestors in a poor southern Shiite town added to the day's death toll, security officials said.
Seven Iraqi soldiers were killed and 17 wounded when a suicide bomber blew up a truck at the entrance to an Iraqi army headquarters in central Tikrit, 180 kilometers (110 miles) north of Baghdad, an Iraqi army officer said.
Three other Iraqi soldiers were killed when gunmen attacked their patrol in south Baghdad, while two other people working in the oil ministry were also shot dead in southeast Baghdad.
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Three other Iraqi soldiers were killed when gunmen attacked their patrol in south Baghdad, while two other people working in the oil ministry were also shot dead in southeast Baghdad.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces are battling a Sunni Arab insurgency against the Shi'ite and Kurdish-led government in Baghdad.
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TIKRIT - A suicide car bomber killed at least five people and wounded 15 in an attack on an Iraqi police headquarters in the northern town of Tikrit, police sources said.
Men volunteering to join the force had been crowding the area at the time, they added. * MOSUL - Fifteen Iraqis including five policemen were killed in separate incidents in the past two days in Iraq's northern city of Mosul, hospital sources said. * BAQUBA - Two Iraqi policemen and a civilian were killed and four injured when a roadside bomb detonated near a police convoy in Baquba, police said.
One of those injured was Lieutenant-Colonel Sabah Salih, the head of Baquba's police patrols.
BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed three Iraqi soldiers in civilian clothes in the Saydiya section of Baghdad, police said.
SAMARRA - Two U.S. soldiers died of their wounds from a roadside bomb attack near the northern city of Samarra on Saturday and one was wounded, said a U.S. military statement.
BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed two Ministry of Oil employees and wounded two others when they opened fire on their car in the New Baghdad district of the capital, police said. * TAL AFAR - Two Iraqi civilians were killed and 11 injured by a roadside bombing on a police patrol and artillery shells landing on farm houses in the restless Iraqi town of Tal Afar, 50km west of Mosul, police said. * SAMAWA - Police fired into a crowd of protesters demanding the resignation of the governor of the southern town of Samawa. Witnesses said one person was killed and about 40 wounded.
Residents of the town demanded better public services.
SAMARRA - The bodies of two police officials who were shot dead were found in the northern city of Samarra, police said. (Reporting by Lutfi Abu Oun in Baghdad, Amer Salman in Tikrit, Faris al-Mehdawi in Baquba and Hamed Fadhil in Samawa)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/GEO720457.htm
Release A050807a
Two Task Force Liberty Soldiers killed, three wounded by IED
TIKRIT, Iraq – Two Task Force Liberty Soldiers were killed and three were wounded when an improvised explosive device detonated near a vehicle patrol near Samarra at about 6:00 p.m. on August 6. The Soldiers were evacuated to a Coalition Forces medical facility where two Soldiers died of wounds sustained in the attack. The names of the Soldiers are being withheld pending notification of next of kin
http://www.mnf-iraq.com/Releases/Aug/050807a.htm
Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's ancestral homeland, is about 90 miles (144 kilometers) north of Baghdad.
The U.S. soldiers died Saturday near Samarra, 75 miles (121 kilometers) north of Baghdad, after their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb, U.S. military officials said.
The soldiers were taken to a hospital, where the two were pronounced dead, authorities said. Three other soldiers were wounded.
The number of U.S. deaths in the Iraq war stands at 1,828, including 31 last week.
In Baghdad, the seven people killed included three Iraqi soldiers, two Oil Ministry workers, an election worker and a member of a Shiite political party.
The Iraqi soldiers were shot dead while driving in civilian clothes to their base early Sunday, a police official said. A fourth soldier was wounded in the attack, which occurred in the southwestern neighborhood of Saydiyya.
Gunmen killed the Iraqi Oil Ministry employees in their car early Sunday, an Iraqi police official said. The shooters also wounded two other ministry employees while they were in the New Baghdad district of southeastern Baghdad.
On Saturday night, two people were killed in the capital's southwestern Bayaa neighborhood, a police official said. Gunmen killed Haider Harbi, an employee of the Independent Electoral Commission in Iraq, and Mehdi Abbas, a member of the Supreme Council of Islamic Revolution in Iraq's Shiite party.
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/07/iraq.main/index.html