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| Iraq |
| Violence rages in Iraq's volatile Mosul |
| 2009-02-24 |
| A spate of attacks on Iraqi security forces has claimed the lives of eight police officers in Iraq's disrupted and second largest city, Mosul. In the latest of attacks, unidentified assailants killed a police officer in central Mosul on Monday. "A policeman was killed when unknown gunmen shot him in a market in al-Kournish street in central Mosul. The cop was on a vacation," an Iraqi police official told Voices of Iraq under the guise of anonymity. The incident comes as two members of the Iraqi security forces died on Sunday afternoon when an improvised explosive device (IED) targeted their patrol at Hawi al-Kanesa district west of Mosul. The blast also inflicted damages to the troops' military vehicle and left three policemen on patrol wounded. Meanwhile five other Iraqi soldiers were seriously wounded in an IED attack on Sunday while conducting a routine foot patrol teh at al-Aleel district in southern Mosul. This is while five other Iraqi soldiers were also killed on Saturday evening when a bomb exploded close to their patrol vehicle at al-Bajj district west of volatile Mosul. Despite security gains, Mosul remains an unstable region in war-torn Iraq. The city -- the provincial capital of Iraq's Nineveh -- is situated some 396 km (250 miles) northwest of Baghdad. Explosions, rampant throughout war-battered Iraq, claim civilian lives and leave many others wounded almost every day in the country. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Not as bad as Juarez. |
| Posted by: bman 2009-02-24 15:07 |
| #1 Iranian news outlet. To show its citizens how lucky they are to live in the Mullahocracy. Any similarity to NYT or CNN reporting is pure coincidence. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2009-02-24 00:42 |