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Iraq
More civilian lives lost in Iraq violence
2009-08-28
[Iran Press TV Latest] At least four people have lost their lives and fourteen others have sustained injuries in the latest string of attacks to hit conflict-plagued Iraq.
The irony that Iran Press is reporting this must be noted. What odds it was Iranian weapons, Iranian training, and possibly even Iranian personnel that were involved in these incidents, not to mention the conflicts that plague Iraq overall? Or if not Iran directly, Iran's client state, Syria?
In the first development, a roadside bomb went off on Thursday near Sahet Beirut in the Palestine street in eastern Baghdad, as a police patrol car was passing. Four people, two civilians and two police officers, were wounded in the blast.

Security forces reportedly sealed off the area and rushed the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment.

The bombing incident followed another attack on Thursday morning in which one civilian was killed and five others wounded in a car bomb explosion north of the volatile Iraqi capital.

An unnamed police source told Voices of Iraq news agency that the explosives-rigged car was detonated on the main road in al-Taji district north of Baghdad.

At least five persons were injured on Wednesday when a booby-trapped car exploded close to a police checkpoint at Wahran intersection in eastern Baghdad

Elsewhere, a civilian on a bus in Mosul was shot down Wednesday by unidentified assailants at al-Yarmook district west of the disrupted northern Iraqi city. The gunman fled the scene after the attack.

Two civilians were also killed Wednesday in Mosul when an improvised explosive device placed in a car went off in al-Faisaliya distrct of eastern Mosul.

A volatile ethnic mix of Sunni Arabs, Kurds and Christians, Mosul remains the scene of frequent shootings and bombings, and US commanders regard the once cosmopolitan city as the last urban bastion of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. The capital city of Iraq's Nineveh Province is situated some 396 km (250 miles) northwest of Baghdad.
Posted by:Fred

#1  I suspect that Chicago tops this.
Posted by: tipover   2009-08-28 02:50  

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