[Quqnoos] At least, 13 Pakistani civilians were killed and three others were wounded on Saturday in an attack by unknown gunmen in the southern Paktia province
The assault took place in Chamkanai, a district in southern Paktia province, on Saturday morning when unidentified gunmen attacked a passenger car packed with Pakistani civilians, said a spokesman for the governor of Paktia, Rohullah Samoon.
All the victims in the incident were Pakistani civilians who had crossed the border and were on their way to Gardiz, the provincial capital of Paktia.
No groups, including the Taliban have claimed responsibility for the incident.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Suspected Taliban militants have killed at least 11 Pakistani Shia Muslim tribesmen and injured several others in Afghanistan's eastern border province of Paktia.
According to a local official, three others were injured in the attack which took place in the border town of Chamkani on Saturday.
The official said the assailants then opened fire on a bus carrying the bodies of the victims of an earlier raid.
Afghan police officials have launched an investigation into the incident.
The attack comes amid rising violence in Afghanistan. Earlier in June, the country's security forces found 11 decapitated bodies of Afghan Shias in the southern Uruzgan province.
Afghan officials blamed the killings on the Taliban.
Thousands of Shia Muslims were killed in Afghanistan under the Taliban rule between 1996 and 2001.
Mass graves containing the beheaded bodies of Shia Muslims have been found since the Taliban were overthrown following the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan.
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[Quqnoos] NDS officials say, in the past few weeks they have arrested 11 suspects belonging to three different terrorist gangs
The Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) said a six-member gang led by Zahidullah was arrested and 400 kgs of explosives, along with some ammunition were also seized from them.
The gang that is believed to have received training in Pakistan is part of Sarajuddin Haqqani's terrorist network.
"A six-member terrorist group who wanted to disrupt security in Kabul, were arrested by the National Security forces," said a spokesman for the NDS, Saeed Ansari.
Four other terrorists belonging to another gang led by Mullah Daud were also arrested, he said.
NDS has also arrested another terrorist who is believed to be involved in carrying out terrorist attacks in the eastern Nangarhar province.
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Taliban leaders in Baghlan and Kunduz provinces have been located after tip-offs from militants in Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hizb-i-Islami group, an Afghan general has said. General Murad Ali Murad, commander of the Afghan 209th Corps in northern Afghanistan, said: "We get intelligence on the Taliban's whereabouts and movements, especially their commanders, from members of Hizb-i-Islami." "The flow of intelligence is working very well. It really helps us eliminate those who pose a serious security threat," he told Reuters. Hek was notorious for being on all sides at once 25 years ago. He probably got as much money from the KGB and KhaD as he did from the Saudis and Paks. He hasn't changed a bit.
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Also from NEWS KERALA > [Unversity of Maryland NCSTART] REPORT: RISE IN NEW TERROR/TERRORIST GROUPS GLOBALLY, FORM COORDINATED ATTACKS.
Differentiated or disparate MilTerr Groups increasingly resorting to [subjective]RESOURCE(S)-SHARING + coordinated, joint TerrOps/Strikes due to lack of common or unified INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL COHESION + IDEOLOGY, EVEN AGZ A COMMON ENEMY???
International and Afghan troops captured a Taliban commander responsible for bringing Pakistani militants across the border to launch attacks, the alliance said on Friday as US-led forces ratchet up their pursuit of insurgent leaders.
The coalition is touting a string of successes in capturing or killing dozens of key militant leaders since April, but so far it has not managed to reduce violent insurgent attacks across the country.
Neither the journalist nor his editor have read Tipping Point, it appears. These things are not straight-line, but suddenly reach the point when behaviour changes drastically.
On Friday, an explosion ripped into a convoy of NATO and Afghan forces in an eastern province, killing one civilian and injuring nine others. Last month was also the most deadly of the nearly 9-year-old war for international troops, with 103 foreign forces killed. US President Barack Obama has sent 30,000 more American troops to Afghanistan to carry out the war's counterinsurgency strategy, which focuses on securing the Afghan population and reversing Taliban gains.
While international forces patrol new areas to try to protect the population, their comrades in special forces, working with elite Afghan commandos, have been staging raids almost every night trying to weaken the insurgents' operational capacity.
On Tuesday, coalition and Afghan special forces arrested a Taliban commander in the eastern province of Nangarhar, NATO said on Friday.
The alliance said the man - whom it would not identify for security reasons - facilitated a recent influx of operatives for Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, the Pakistan-based militant group, which is accused of involvement in a string of recent attacks in Afghanistan.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Thirty leaders and activists of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir were arrested from Brahmanbaria, Joypurhat and Naogaon Friday night and on Saturday.
In Brahmanbaria, police arrested 18 Shibir and 2 Jamaat men from a house at Kazipara in the district town at about 12:30pm.
Officer-in-charge Mohammad Hamidul Islam of Sadar Police Station claimed that a secret meeting, led by Shibir district unit secretary Rashidul Kabir Rana, was going on in the house and the Jamaat leaders were also present at the meeting.
Police claimed that the Jamaat leaders -- Noman and Shibli -- came from Dhaka to attend the meeting.
The agenda of the meeting could not be known immediately, reports our Brahmanbaria correspondent.
Prothom Alo reports, seven Shibir activists, including its two local leaders, were arrested at Royer village in Akkelpur upazila of Joypurhat district Friday night.
The law enforcers also seized books on Jihad, organisational schedule and other important documents.
Officer-in-charge Moklesur Rahman of Akkelpur Police Station claimed that they were arrested from Shah Sikandar Jam-e-Mosque while holding a secret meeting.
Shibir president of upazila unit Al Mamun and general secretary Mostakin Billah were among the arrestees.
A case was filed with the local police station in this connection.
UNB adds: Three Shibir activists were arrested while sticking posters on the walls at Doyal crossing in Naogaon town on early Saturday.
The arrestees were identified as Mohammad Abdur Rahim, 18, of Paroil village in Raninagar upazila, Mohammad Habib, 20, of Jaboi village in Sapahar upazila and Mohammad Harunur Rashid, 22, of south Labonpur village in Patnitala upazila.
Police said they arrested the three Shibir men while pasting posters on the walls demanding unconditional release of Jamaat leaders Motiur Rahman Nizami, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid, Delwar Hossain Saydee at about 6:00am.
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A Mexican Army unit travelling in Sinaloa at night was involved in a shootout with armed suspects riding in a convoy, which led to the arrest of three and the seizure of weapons and vehicles early Friday morning, say Mexican new accounts.
Elements of the Mexican Army 24th Motorized Cavalry Battalion, 9th Military Zone was travelling near the village of San Pedro La Laguna at about 0020 hrs. when they were fired on by armed suspects riding in a convoy of at least eight vehicles.
The ensuing firefight lasted several minutes until the suspects retreated from their position. Three suspects were captured.
Roman Damian Ochoa 40, of Navolato.
Martin Lopez Garcia, 30 of Navolato
Gabriel Cuevas Valenzuela, 43, of Navolato.
Weapons eized were: one AK-47 assault rifle, two AR-15 assault rifles, two 40mm grenade launcher attachments, one 9mm submachine gun UZI type, one .45 caliber pistol, two Super .38 caliber pistols, one .38 Special, three 40mm grenades, 37 magazines and 2,634 cartridges of various calibers.
Vehicles seized: One 2009 Nissan Pathfinder (stolen),one Jeep Wrangler (stolen), One 2009 Mazda CX-9 (stolen), one Nissan pickup truck (stolen), one Chevrolet Tahoe (stolen) with bullet impacts, and one 2005 Chevrolet Trail Blazer.
Other materiel seized: Two tactical vests, two kevlar helmets, one generator and radio equipment.
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Elements of the Mexican Army dismantled a methamphetymine lab in the town of Huanimaro, Guanajuato according to Mexican news reports. The forfeiture amounts to 383,000 pills imported from China and 58 kilos to produce 700,000 doses of methamphetymine.
That seems rather a lot.
Secretaria de la Defensa Nacional (SEDENA) commanders say the seizure has a retail value of 19 million pesos ($1,489,670).
Thursday's bust is the seventh lab dismantled by the army in Guanajuato.
I'm willing to be impressed. What happens to the siezed materials?
Drugs are usually incinerated.
That's ok, then.
An unidentified man and woman were arrested in conjunction with the seizure.
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Guanajuato. City of tunnels. One of my favourite places.
One fine morning I took my rental car to the shrine on top the mountain. On a whim I decided to take the back round cross country back to town. Halfway down I ran into a hitchhiking mariachi band. Not one spoke English and I speak no Spanish, but they crowded in and we made it down the mountain. We even shared cold cervesa in town.
Good Guys get one right...
Four unidentified dead armed suspects and five unidentified injured civilians are the toll from an ambush laid by the armed suspects, according to Mexican news reports.
A State Ministerial Police (PME) patrol was shot at by a group of armed suspects riding aboard an SUV at about 2230 hrs. on the Torreon -San Pedro highway close to a farm in Km. Marker 23.
The agents returned fire, killing four suspects. In the crossfire, five civilians were wounded, two in serious condition. All were given immediate medical attention. The police did not report any agents hurt in the attack.
Authorities also seized three pistols: a Ruger .45 caliber, a 9mm Browning pistol, and a Super .38 pistol. Also seized was an AK-47 assault rifle, radios, magazines and a 2008 Ford Edge.
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The .38 Super used to be the standard Mexican military handgun round. Not rare at all and a pretty effective one at that. First time you shoot one it feels pretty "smartish" in the shooting hand,
Seventeen people were murdered in drug and gang violence plaguing northern Mexico, which include the murder of a Hermosillo, Sonora attorney, the shooting of a Sonora state police officer and two dead felons at a Chihuahua, Chihuahua CERESO facility.
An agent with the Sonora La Policia Estatal Investigadora (PEI) was shot and wounded in an ambush Thursday afternoon in Hermosillo, Sonora, according to Mexican news reports.
Javier Robles Perez, de 48, was shot aboard his personal vehicle, a Volkswagen Passat, by several armed suspects riding aboard a Chevrolet pickup truck near the intersection of Avenida Saturnino Campoy and calle Tres in the Sahuaro Indeco district. Investigators say Perez was hit with AK-47 assault rifle fire on full automatic and from 5.7mm pistol fire.
Perez was previously wounded by gunfire in the line of duty on March 24th.
Officials ruled out a prison riot, or attempt to escape as the initiating act. The CERESO facility in Chihuahua has been the site of numerous security problems in the recent past.
An unidentified man was shot to death riding in his low rider vehicle Thursday night in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, according to Mexican news reports. The shooting took place on calle Guillermo Prieto Lujän when a group of armed suspects riding a convoy of trucks forced the victim to slow hi Lincoln Continental to a halt before they fired on him.
An unidentified woman half naked was shot to death, while three people at a bakery were shot to death in Juarez, according to the Mexican daily La Polaka.
The woman was found lying face up wearing only a pair of yellow colored panties near the intersection of calles Terraza del Valle and Valle Azul in the Terrazas del Valle district. Investigators found 9mm spent cartridges casings at the scene.
Three unidentified people died when two armed men entered a bakery near the intersection of calles Montes de Oca and Luciano Becerra in the Barrio Azul district and shot the owner, an employee and a customer buying bread.
An unidentified man was shot to death in Juarez late Thursday night, say Mexican news reports. The victim was found near the intersection of calles Chilacayote and Torreón in the Felipe Ãngeles district, after he was abducted from his Chevrolet Avalanche a few blocks away.
Two unidentified men and one woman were shot to death and one more other wounded in two separate crimes in Juarez, according to the Mexican daily La Polaka.
The father of an unidentified young food vendor was shot to death in Juarez Friday afternoon less than two days later, according to Mexican news accounts. The latest shooting took place near the intersection of calles Ramón Rayón and Juärez-Porvenir in Plaza de Zaragoza. An armed suspect stepped out of a Ford Explorer SUV and shot the man at close range three times, hitting him in the head before fleeing the scene.
An unidentified businessman was shot to death in Juarez Friday afternoon. The 56 year old victim, the proprietor of a body shop, was found dead at his shop near the intersection of calle Santa Barbara and 8 de Octubre in the Che Guevara district.
Witnesses say three armed suspects arrived at the shop, and while two of them watched on the outside, the third went in and shot the victim. Investigators at the scene found 14 9mm spent cartridge casings.
An unidentified man in his 20s was found shot to death in Juarez Friday afternoon, according to Mexican press reports. The victim was found near the intersection of calles Valle Azul and Terraza in the Terrazas del Valle district. The victim had been shot three times. Witnesses say Terrazas del Valle is not very well patrolled by law enforcement and is considered a good place to dump victims or to kill them.
Two unidentified men were shot to death in a gun battle between rival gangs in Juarez, according to Mexican press reports. One victim was shot in his Mitsubishi sedan near the intersection of calles Tecnológico and Pedro Rosales, while the other was killed attempting to flee the assault.
An Heromsillo, Sonora attorney was found dead in his office Thursday morning, according to Mexican press reports. Heriberto Morales Sobarzo, 43, was found dead with a wound to his neck. Investigators could not determine if he was shot to stabbed. The victim was found in his office near the intersection of calle Manuel Gonzälez between calles Puebla and Jalisco in the Centro district.
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Prohibition is a disaster, but with a lot of these drugs and gangsters NON-prohibition is an even bigger disaster. The key is removing demand, but nobody seems to be able to figure out how.
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The key is removing demand, but nobody seems to be able to figure out how.
The Portuguese have gone some way to figuring that out:
"[I]n the five years after personal possession was decriminalized, illegal drug use among teens in Portugal declined and rates of new HIV infections caused by sharing of dirty needles dropped, while the number of people seeking treatment for drug addiction more than doubled.
'Judging by every metric, decriminalization in Portugal has been a resounding success,' says Glenn Greenwald, an attorney, author and fluent Portuguese speaker, who conducted the research. 'It has enabled the Portuguese government to manage and control the drug problem far better than virtually every other Western country does.'
Compared to the European Union and the U.S., Portugal's drug use numbers are impressive. Following decriminalization, Portugal had the lowest rate of lifetime marijuana use in people over 15 in the E.U.: 10%. The most comparable figure in America is in people over 12: 39.8%. Proportionally, more Americans have used cocaine than Portuguese have used marijuana."
Yep, the answer was to make access easier, and to remove the chachet associated with branding the stuff 'forbidden fruit'.
There's only one approach which is clearly disastrous, and that's prohibition.
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That's right, guys -- y'all decriminalize possession, and finance the caliphatists like Al Qaeda and Hizb'allah 10g at a time. How hard can it be to stop using the stuff? Surely y'all can get drunk on beer or scotch instead, if you need to enter an altered state?
As for Prohibition, it does too work. The number of drunken children wandering through the streets went down significantly, and the numbers of adult lives destroyed by rotgut was relatively unchanged, based on what I've read. It's just that the rich were the ones who were suffering. Before, it had been the poor whose drink was diluted by everything unhealthy, just as the food supply was. Britain led the way with food standards laws, America's FDA followed later, if I recall correctly; but before that flour was often diluted by sawdust, spices by lead powder, unless one went to the most exclusive suppliers. I have a reissue of a late 19th century guide for the gentlewoman housewife, which gives instruction on how to determine which foodstuffs had been unhealthily diluted, and what the common diluents were. It's no wonder the poor were described as naturally lazy and shiftless -- they were being systematically poisoned!
What we know about the resentment of Prohibition, is due to how greatly the rich and literate disliked take the risks to health and sanity that the poor had heretofore suffered alone.
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Elements of the Mexican 22nd Motorized Cavalry Regiment seized more than a one of marijuana Wednesday night near the town of San Luis Rio Colorado, Baja California, say Mexican news reports.
A tractor trailer rig carrying grocery items was stopped on a road leading to Sonora Wednesday evening and searched by the cavalry unit. The truck's journey originated in Guadalajara, Jalisco and was to end in Tijuana.
Following a routine search, traces of drugs were found on the trailer floor, so the rig was moved to the unit's base near Las Adelitas farm. Specialized equipment was used to scan the truck when the drugs were found in a hidden compartment.
More than a ton of marijuana in 596 packages was discovered.
Arrested was Manuel Toscano RamÃrez, 47 of Guadalajara, Jalisco.
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Army must've been tipped off. And 'protection' fees not paid. Rival gangs competing?
Seems like a lot of gang competition these days. And more violent too. I wonder if it's becasue of our economic difficulties - either because there are more and bigger gangs in response to fewer alternatives, or because the gangs are fighting over a shrinking demand because there are fewer customers who can afford their product?
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it aint shrinking demand Glenmore... probably just the natural consolidation of markets at work as transportation and communication become less expensive, the economy of scale leads to bigger players dominating.
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A Bangladeshi immigrant who called for "the slaughter of Jews" in online postings has become the first person to be charged with promoting genocide in Canada, police said on Friday. Salman Hussain, 25, who apparently left the country in May, was charged with five counts of promoting hatred and advocating or promoting genocide over postings on his website and blog, as well as on a third-party website, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) said. "He willfully promoted hatred and advocated genocide of the Jewish community," said a statement. Until now, Canada has only prosecuted suspects accused of mass atrocities abroad, in countries such as Rwanda. The Canadian government has also deported war crimes suspects to be tried in foreign courts.
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Anyone who supports Palestinian State supports genocide of Jews.
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Only when the Government knew that he was safely out of the country did they charge him. All visuals. "We've taken firm action but unfortunately we can't do anything about him because he is no longer in Canada".
As Mrs. Slocombe would say . . . "Weak. Weak as water".
[Dawn] Three Pakistani soldiers were killed as Taliban attacked security forces in the South Waziristan tribal region, sparking clashes in which 25 militants were killed, officials said Saturday.
"Militants attacked an army patrol in Makeen district of South Waziristan area late Friday in which three soldiers were killed and eight wounded," a security official said.
Taliban fighters also attacked a security post in Kaniguram valley, 30 kilometres north of the region's main town of Wana overnight, injuring five soldiers, another security official said.
Military officials said troops launched retaliatory strikes, killing 25 militants in the two areas.
Independent confirmation of casualty figures is impossible because the area is closed to aid workers and journalists.
South Waziristan, considered a stronghold of militants and headquarters for the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), was the scene of a major government offensive against the insurgents last year.
The TTP is a major force behind a bombing campaign that has killed more than 3,500 people across Pakistan in three years.
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One would feel for the poor Pakistanis, had the government, regardless whether civilian or military, not financed and trained these people for decades. Sowing and reaping, donchaknow.
As the NYT would say, women and children affected most
PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD: At least 65 people were killed, including women and children, and 110 injured, as two suicide bombers ripped through political offices, just seconds apart from each other, in Yakka Ghund tehsil of Mohmand Agency on Friday, Mohmand Political Agent Amjad Ali Khan said.
The dead included five khasadars, two political moharrars and five members of a family, while over 100 shops and more than two dozen vehicles were destroyed in the explosions. According to AFP, the force of the explosives collapsed flimsy wooden roofs of more than two dozen shops, twisted shutters and snapped off doors.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) Mohmand chapter claimed responsibility for the attacks.
The first bomber, riding a motorbike, hit the main boundary wall of the political offices of the Yakka Ghund tehsil, while the second attacker, driving an explosives-laden coach, hit the main offices, which also included a sub-jail in the premises. Resultantly, the entire building collapsed, killing 65 people and injuring 110 others. Thirty-five prisoners fled from the prison, four of whom were recovered later.
The bomber rammed the vehicle, as hundreds of tribal elders had gathered around the office of Rasool Khan, the Mohmand assistant political agent, for a meeting. None was hurt, according to Amjad Ali Khan.
Among the wounded were several people displaced due to the military operation, who were collecting relief goods near the blast site. Residents said five children, aged between five and 10, and several women were among those dead. The injured were immediately rushed to a nearby hospital and those critically-wounded were shifted to Peshawar's Lady Reading Hospital.
Meanwhile, TTP Mohmand spokesman Ikramullah told reporters on telephone from an undisclosed location that their targets were the offices of the political administration and the local peace committee, which had arranged an anti-Taliban jirga there. We have no enmity with the people, he added.
"Our intentions were to stop the holding of the anti-Taliban jirga," Ikramullah said.
By killing everyone ...
It's a proven method, after all.
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BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: At least five people were killed and 18 others were wounded in a car bomb blast in western Baghdad on Friday, according to a security source.
A car rigged with explosives went off on Friday morning (July 9) near an army checkpoint in al-Aamiriya neighborhood in western Baghdad, killing five persons, including three soldiers and two civilians, and injuring 18, including two soldiers and 16 civilians, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The blast damaged a number of civilian vehicles, he added, without giving further details.
Baghdad witnessed several explosions in the past few days, during which scores were killed or wounded, most of them are Shiite pilgrims.
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AQI or Baathists are still trying to stir up a religious civil war in Iraq? Or just normal sectarian strife of the Religion of Pieces?
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Great question. Aswat al-Iraq is great at providing these pithy news stories on the who, what, when, and where, but how and why seems to be taboo to them.
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Maoist guerrillas killed seven soldiers in the northern Philippines on Friday, a military official said, even as the new government attempts to restart peace talks with the communist National Democratic Front. "Our troops were leaving a poor community where they had met village leaders for a medical mission when they were ambushed by dozens of rebels", Colonel Eliseo Posadas told reporters. President Benigno Aquino III, who took office last week, has promised to resume talks with rebel groups to end two long-running insurgencies in the country, which have killed more than 160,000 people and stunted economic growth in resource-rich areas outside Manila since the late 1960s. The communist rebels have said before negotiations can resume about a dozen rebel leaders have to be released from detention and they want to locate three more who they suspect were abducted by government agents.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: At least five people were killed and 18 others were wounded in a car bomb blast in western Baghdad on Friday, according to a security source.
