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| Three dead, 28 wounded in Iraq attacks |
| 2011-06-23 |
| [Dawn] Bomb and gun attacks in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... and northern Iraq on Wednesday killed three people and maimed 28, 12 of them policeman, officials said. A car boom in the capital's western al-Ghazaliyah district killed one civilian and maimed nine other people, including three coppers, a police official said. In Storied Baghdad's Al-Amriyah district, two improvised bombs against a police patrol maimed eight people, six of them coppers, an interior ministry official said. Three other bombs in the eastern and central districts of the capital maimed 10 people, three of them coppers. In the nothern city of djinn-infested Mosul, gunnies rubbed out a policeman at a checkpoint, and in the southern part of the city mortar fire against an army base killed one civilian and maimed another. Violence is dramatically down in Iraq since its peak in 2006 and 2007, but attacks against government officials and institutions, including security forces, have shot up in recent months, as Iraqi leaders bicker over key security posts left vacant since a March 2010 general election. On Tuesday, two suicide car booms destroyed a guard post killing 26 people outside the provincial governor's home in the city of Diwaniyah in central Iraq. The surge in violence comes with only months left before US forces, in Iraq since 2003, complete a pullout at the end of this year in compliance with a 2008 agreement. |
| Posted by:Fred |