Industry ministry adviser among 17 killed in Iraq

[maddezmom]

Another market bombing kills eight, wounds 18 in Sadr City
• Bomb in a plastic bag rips through minibus in Shiite area, killing one
• Clashes in Najaf leave three gunmen dead, three Iraqi police officers hurt
• Gunmen kill Industry Ministry adviser and his daughter in Baghdad
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Armed gunmen and bomb attacks killed 17 people -- including an Industry Ministry adviser -- and wounded 37 others on Sunday throughout Iraq, Iraqi officials said.

A bomb concealed in a plastic bag ripped through a minibus in a Shiite neighborhood in eastern Baghdad, killing one passenger and wounding seven others Sunday morning, a Baghdad police official said.

South of the capital in Najaf, a Shiite holy city, ongoing clashes early Sunday left three gunmen dead and three Iraqi police officers wounded, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official in Baghdad said.

Gunmen ambushed and killed Adel Abdul Muhsen, the Industry Ministry adviser, and his daughter, also a ministry official, in western Baghdad's Yarmouk neighborhood, an Interior Ministry official said. The gunmen also shot and killed their driver and bodyguard.

more:http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/01/28/iraq.main/index.html?section=cnn_latest

[maddezmom]

1. Gunmen kill top Iraqi Industry Ministry official

BAGHDAD, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Gunmen ambushed the director general of Iraq's Industry Ministry as he drove to work in Baghdad on Sunday, killing him, his daughter and two others, police and the ministry said.

Police said gunmen in a car sprayed Adel Abdul-Mehsun al-Lami's vehicle with bullets in Baghdad's western Yarmouk district. Insurgents fighting the U.S.-backed Shi'ite-led government frequently attack or kidnap government officials.

A ministry spokesman said Lami's daughter had worked as an engineer in the ministry. The other two killed were his driver and a second unidentified employee.

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[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

2. All The Bright Ones Are Either Leaving Or Getting Killed

This is Democracy, eh?

[Eugene]

3. some more details - AP: Gunmen Slay Shiite Official in Baghdad

Gunmen Slay Shiite Official in Baghdad
Gunmen Kill High-Ranking Shiite Official at Iraqi
Industry and Mines Ministry in Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Iraq Jan 28, 2007 (AP)— Drive-by shooters on Sunday killed a high-ranking
Shiite official at the Iraqi industry and mines ministry in western Baghdad, the
ministry said.

Eight gunmen in two cars blocked the way of Adil Abdul-Muhssin al-Lami, who served
as a general director of the ministry's engineering directorate, as he was traveling
in the Sunni-dominated neighborhood of Dakhiliya.

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Full article: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2829622

[maddezmom]

4. Iraqi security forces clash with militants-governor

NAJAF, Iraq, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Iraqi security forces were fighting a group of Sunni insurgents holed up in orchards in the Shi'ite holy city of Najaf on Sunday, the provincial governor said, but details of the incident were sketchy.

Police in Najaf, seat of Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite clerics, and the U.S. military did not confirm any clashes.

Governor Asaad Abu Gilel told Reuters the authorities had uncovered a plot by the fighters to kill some of the clerics on Monday, the climax of the Shi'ite mourning ritual of Ashura, a highpoint of the Shi'ite religious calendar.

Abu Gilel said the militants, who included foreign fighters, had arrived in the city disguised as pilgrims in recent days and based themselves in the orchards, which he said had been bought three or four months ago by supporters of Saddam Hussein.

Iraqi forces had now surrounded the orchards and were battling the militants. No U.S. troops were involved in the operation, but U.S. helicopters were providing air support, he said. The U.S. military, whose forces largely withdrew from Najaf province last month, had no immediate comment.

more:http://mobile.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L28935454.htm

[maddezmom]

5. Minibus bomb kills 1, wounds 7 in Baghdad while gunmen and insurgents in Najaf clash

Meanwhile, south of the capital in Najaf, a Shiite holy city, ongoing clashes that sparked early Sunday between gunmen and Iraqi security forces have left three gunmen dead and three Iraqi police officers wounded, an Iraqi interior ministry official in Baghdad told CNN.



http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/01/28/sunday/index.html?section=cnn_latest

[maddezmom]

6. Mortar attack on Baghdad girls school kills five

BAGHDAD, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Five female pupils were killed in a mortar strike on a secondary school in the predominantly Sunni Adil district of western Baghdad on Sunday, the school's principal told Reuters.

Principal Fawziya Swadi said two mortars landed in the schoolyard where many pupils were gathered. The blasts blew in classroom windows, spraying pupils with glass shards that accounted for some injuries. She said 20 people were wounded.

Police confirmed the attack, one of many tit-for-tat mortar strikes in Sunni and Shi'ite areas of the capital every day.

http://mobile.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L284136.htm

[maddezmom]

7. BAGHDAD (AFP) - At least 24 Iraqis have been killed in ambushes, car bombs and firefights as Shiite

BAGHDAD (AFP) - At least 24 Iraqis have been killed in ambushes, car bombs and firefights as Shiite Muslims headed to the shrine city of Karbala for Ashura, one of their most sacred ceremonies.

A car bomb ripped through Baghdad's Sadr City, the impoverished Shiite bastion of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, killing eight people and wounding 18, a security source said Sunday.

"A car bomb exploded around midday (0900 GMT) in Sadr City," the source said.

The latest bloodletting comes as Iraqi and US authorities gear for a broad offensive against insurgent and militia groups engaged in a bitter sectarian war centered on Baghdad.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070128/ts_afp/iraq_070128124647

[maddezmom]

8. 47 killed, dozens wounded in Iraq violence

BAGHDAD - Ongoing violence in and around Baghdad claimed at least 47 more Iraqi lives on Sunday despite beefed-up security and police raids.


In Kirkuk, 250 kilometres north of Baghdad, a car bomb killed eight Iraqis and wounded 15 others in a district dominated by Shias and Kurds. The bomb was detonated in a busy car market.

Adel Abdel-Mohsen, adviser to the Minister of Industry, was shot down by armed militants in Yarmouk district, western Baghdad. His two daughters and three others were also killed.

Earlier, in the same area, an adviser for the Agriculture Ministry was also killed, reported the Al Iraqia state channel
more:http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2007/January/focusoniraq_January193.xml§ion=focusoniraq

[Eugene]

9. AFP: At least 61 killed in Iraq

At least 61 killed in Iraq

by Assad Abboud

38 minutes ago

BAGHDAD (AFP) - At least 61 people were killed and scores wounded in Iraq,
while police found 54 more corpses of people killed in brutal sectarian
attacks in violence-wracked Baghdad.

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In the northern oil city of Kirkuk meanwhile, two car bombings killed 16
people and wounded 30, police chief Major General Torhan Yussef told AFP.

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In another brutal bombing, eight more people were killed and 18 wounded
as a car bomb ripped through the impoverished Shiite bastion of Sadr City
in Baghdad, as Shiites headed to Karbala for Ashura, their most sacred
mourning rite that culminates Tuesday.

Casualties were also reported from south of Baghdad in the Babil province
where several mortar rounds killed another 10 people, a police officer said.

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Full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070128/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_070128175700

The article goes on with a very long list of incidents.

[Eugene]

10. BBC: Iraqi clashes 'kill 250 rebels'

Last Updated: Sunday, 28 January 2007, 19:32 GMT

Iraqi clashes 'kill 250 rebels'

US and Iraqi troops have killed about 250 rebels in fierce fighting
around the holy city of Najaf, police say.

The battle has been raging all day as US-backed Iraqi army units fight the
unidentified rebel group in orchards on the northern outskirts of Najaf.

The US military has not commented and there is no independent confirmation
of the Iraqi announcement.

It said three Iraqi soldiers had died in the fighting. A US helicopter is
also reported to have been shot down.

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Full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6308365.stm