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Three dead, ten wounded in Iraq violence
Three Iraqi civilians were killed and 10 wounded in violence on Tuesday while police also found the body of man who had been stabbed to death at an unknown date. Two of the civilians were killed and five wounded in a roadside bomb in Taji, 30 kilometres (20 miles) north of Baghdad, an area where Al-Qaeda-linked insurgents have long operated, an interior ministry official said.In the main northern city of Mosul, a third civilian was killed by unknown gunmen. The body of the fourth was found in the centre of the city, regarded by US commanders as Al-Qaeda's last urban bastion in Iraq. Four people were also wounded when a bomb went off 70 kilometres (45 miles) northwest of Mosul.Separately, the US military said that soldiers killed a civilian after he failed to stop his car at a checkpoint in Mosul on Monday. South of Baghdad, a local US-allied militiaman was wounded in a roadside bombing in Jarf Sakha. Known as Sahwa or Awakening Councils, the militias, made up of predominantly Sunni Arab tribesmen and former insurgents who have turned against Al-Qaeda, are frequent targets for attack by the jihadists and their allies. Posted by: Pappy 2009-05-20 |
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