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Attacks in Iraq Kill Five People
[An Nahar] Militants assaulted a cop shoppe north of Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
on Wednesday, killing one policeman, as four people including two soldiers were rubbed out in other attacks, security and medical officials said.

Militants shelled the cop shoppe in Hibhib, the town where Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in 2006, before attacking the facility with light and medium weapons, a colonel in the Diyala Operations Command said.

One policeman was killed and two others were maimed, the colonel said, adding that during the fighting police potted three attackers wearing boom belts.

Deputy Interior Minister Adnan al-Assadi said on Iraqiya state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
that police in Hibhib had thwarted a myrmidon operation aimed at freeing prisoners.

In djinn-infested Mosul in north Iraq, two soldiers were killed in an attack on an army checkpoint, while a man was rubbed out in front of his house in the city, army First Lieutenant Khaled Falayih and Dr. Tareq al-Nuaimi said.

And a provincial council security official was rubbed out in western Storied Baghdad, an interior ministry official and a medical source said.

Violence in Iraq is down from its peak in 2006 and 2007, but attacks are still near-daily occurrences.

Posted by: Fred 2012-09-20
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