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Nine Iraqis found dead, attacks kill 11 nationwide
BAGHDAD - Police on Tuesday uncovered nine bodies of civilians shot dead near a Shia town south of Baghdad, as 11 Iraqis, mainly from the security services, died in other violence around the country, police said. The nine bodies of men in their 30s were discovered near Musayyib, south of Baghdad. They had all been shot at close range, said police.Police said that insurgents had attacked council workers from Saddam Husseinâs hometown of Tikrit, north of the capital, killing two and kidnapping a third. Shahla Al Marie, the head of planning in Tikrit, was gunned down together with Tahseen Wali, the head of the accounting department. Ihsan Wali, an engineer traveling with them, was kidnapped, while the driver was wounded. Also in the north, three members of the northern Iraqi oil companyâs security force were killed by gunmen as they patrolled a pipeline near Shorkat, also in Saddamâs home province of Salaheddin. In the village of Khalas, north of the notorious Sunni flashpoint town of Baquba north of Baghdad, one of Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafariâs bodyguards was killed in a drive-by shooting. With his boss on an official visit to Tokyo, the bodyguard had been on his way to visit his family. An Iraqi army colonel and his driver were found shot dead on the road between Baghdad and Baquba, said police. The officer and driver, who were not in uniform and travelling in a private car, were killed in a drive by shooting at around 10:00 am (0700 GMT). Baquba -- the site of frequent violence -- was on Saturday rocked by an insurgent ambush of an Iraqi army convoy that killed 19 soldiers. In Baghdad, the interior ministry said that police General Hamza Hussein Fadel and a passenger in his car had been shot dead by unknown attackers in the capitalâs southern Dura district. A policewoman was shot dead in Baghdadâs western Amriyah district, according to the same source. Meanwhile, in Karbala, a Salafist -- religiously conservative Sunni -- was sentenced to death for his involvement in a December 2004 attack in the Shia holy city, a judicial source said. Faiz Jalil Shaalan was sentenced to death by a criminal court. He was arrested following a bomb attack in which Sheikh Abdel Mahdi Al Karbalai, a representative of Grand Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani, was wounded. Posted by: Steve 2005-12-06 |
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