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| Iraq |
| Five Iraqi Soldiers Killed in Shootings |
| 2011-06-16 |
| [An Nahar] Five Iraqi soldiers were killed on Wednesday in a spate of shootings against patrols and checkpoints in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... and the main northern city of djinn-infested Mosul, security officials said. The violence, which also included a roadside kaboom blast within an Iraqi army base that left 11 soldiers maimed, came just a day after attacks on government offices in central Iraq that killed seven people and mirrored a March raid claimed by al-Qaeda. In the Jamiyah neighborhood of west Storied Baghdad, two soldiers were rubbed out by gunnies using silenced pistols against an Iraqi army patrol at around midnight, an interior ministry official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. ... for fear of being murdered... Later Wednesday morning, another soldier was killed when cut-throats opened fire on an army checkpoint in Shuala, in the capital's north, the official added. And in djinn-infested Mosul, 350 kilometers north of Storied Baghdad, two soldiers were killed by gunnies who fired on an army patrol in the east of the city, according to an Iraqi army officer who did not want to be named. A further 11 soldiers, including one officer, were maimed when a roadside kaboom went kaboom!within an Iraqi army base in the town of Zaitun, within the disputed province of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... according to police captain Barzan al-Obeidi. Kirkuk, an oil-rich region that lies north of Storied Baghdad, is claimed by both the central government in Storied Baghdad and Kurdish regional authorities in Arbil. The unresolved row is persistently cited by diplomats and analysts as one of the biggest threats to Iraq's future stability. Six civilians were also maimed in two separate roadside kabooms in the south Storied Baghdad neighborhood of Dora, the interior ministry official said. Violence is down across Iraq since its peak in 2006 and 2007, but attacks remain common. A total of 177 people died in violence in May, according to official figures. |
| Posted by:Fred |