Earlier on Monday, a bomb blast on Palestine Street in the city wounded 17 people, and another identical blast on Al-Rabee street wounded four civilians. Elsewhere, five civilians were killed and 10 others were wounded in an explosion in Al-Tayaran public square in the center of the city. Also today, a bomb planted at a water fountain in a public square in the capital blew up killing five civilians and wounding 10 others, a security source said. The source told KUNA that the explosion occurred at the noon rush-hour at the usually crowded spot of the city. Policemen evacuated the victims to hospitals.
The Iraqi Government, in a statement, said security troops killed Ali Wali, 38, a leading member of the radical group, Ansar Al-Islam, in an operation in the district of Al-Mansour, two days ago, adding that the man had joined warriors in Afghanistan, imprisoned for falsifying documents and received training for terror and bombing attacks. Later, police in the capital reported locating dead bodies of two journalists, who worked for the Iraqi Al-Nahrain satellite television station, in the south of the capital. The two men, who were kidnapped yesterday, were shot with gunfire. | Only his Mom and his fleas will miss him, and Mahmoud the Scurrilous Weasel gets a battlefield promotion. |