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5 police killed in twin Baghdad blasts, 7 others wounded
[Straits Times] Twin roadside kaboom blasts in east Storied Baghdad...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... killed five coppers and maimed seven other people late on Saturday, an Iraqi interior ministry official said. The kabooms targeted a police patrol in the Ghadeer neighbourhood, the official said, on condition of anonymity. Of the seven maimed, three were police and the others civilians. Saturday's violence comes after Al-Qaeda's front group in Iraq threatened a campaign of 100 attacks, starting mid-August, to avenge the death of the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now beyond all cares and woe... in a US special forces raid in Pakistain on May 4. Violence is down across Iraq from its peak in 2006 and 2007, but attacks remain common. A total of 259 people were killed in violence in Iraq in July, according to official figures, the second-highest figure in 2011. Posted by: Fred 2011-08-28 |
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