Iraqi police targeted in assassination attempt, car bomb ploy

[maddezmom]

Source: CNN

Iraqi police targeted in assassination attempt, car bomb ploy
BAGHDAD (CNN) -- Baghdad police said insurgents used a dead body stashed in a parked car to lure two Iraqi police officers to the vehicle on Thursday. When police approached, the explosives-rigged car exploded, killing them.

The blast also wounded six officers nearby, police said.

The incident occurred at 8 a.m. in the Amil neighborhood in southwest Baghdad.

Thirty minutes later in northern Baghdad's Qahira neighborhood, gunmen attempted to assassinate the Iraqi chief of traffic police.

Police said the chief survived, but two of his security guards were killed and two others were wounded in the attack.

In southern Baghdad two civilians were killed and six others were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded on a busy market street, police said.



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/03/29/thursday/index.html

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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, March 29
March 29 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 0700 GMT on Thursday:

BAGHDAD - Two policemen were killed and six wounded when they approached a car bomb in Amil district in southwestern Baghdad, police said. There was a corpse in the car.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen attacked the motorcade of the head of traffic police, Jaafar al-Khafaji, in northern Baghdad, killing two traffic policemen and wounding two others, police said.

BAGHDAD - The bodies of 13 people were found shot in different districts of Baghdad on Wednesday, police said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb targeting an Iraqi army checkpoint killed a soldier and wounded three others on Wednesday near al-Shurta tunnel in western Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK - Ali Abid, the deputy to the governor of Kirkuk, escaped a roadside bomb attack on Wednesday in the northern city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. He was unharmed but three of his guards were wounded.

more:http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29339182.htm

[maddezmom]

1. 13 policemen arrested for Iraqi town massacre 29 minutes ago

13 policemen arrested for Iraqi town massacre 29 minutes ago



MOSUL, Iraq (AFP) - Iraqi authorities have arrested 13 policemen for carrying out a massacre of 70 Sunni Arabs in a northern Iraqi town to avenge a devastating bomb attack, officials said on Thursday.

On Tuesday, a suicide bomber blew up a truck in a Shiite district of Tal Afar -- a town rated in 2006 by US President George W. Bush as a symbol of a stable Iraq -- and killed 85 people and wounded 183 others

~snip~

At least 70 people were killed, while 30 were wounded and 40 more remain missing in one of the worst sectarian attacks in Iraq in recent months.

An Iraqi army source told AFP that 13 policemen have been detained for the mass killings.

More than 50 bodies of the executed victims have been moved to a hospital Mosul, the capital of Nineveh province which is home to Tal Afar, along with two ambulances ferrying women who were wounded in the rampage.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070329/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestshootingarrest_070329080041

[maddezmom]

3. police have been released

MOSUL, Iraq, March 29 (Reuters) - Policemen who took part in the reprisal shootings of scores of men in northwest Iraq this week were arrested but then freed again to prevent unrest, the provincial governor said on Thursday.

Hours after truck bombs killed 85 people on Tuesday in a Shi'ite area of Tal Afar, up to 70 Sunni Arab men were shot dead in a town which only a year ago was held up by U.S. President George W. Bush as an example of progress towards peace.

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a Shi'ite, has ordered an inquiry into reports the gunmen included policemen from his Shi'ite-dominated security forces.

"Yes, there are policemen who are involved," the governor of Nineveh province, Durad Kashmula, told a news conference in the regional capital Mosul.

"They have been arrested but released afterwards due to the demonstrations and to deter strife," he said, referring to protests in Tal Afar on Wednesday. But he said the culprits would be brought to justice in due course.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29385868.htm

[maddezmom]

2. Bomb tears through Baghdad market and Shiite Mosque

Bomb tears through Baghdad market By SINAN SALAHEDDIN, Associated Press Writer
7 minutes ago



BAGHDAD - A bomb planted under a parked car tore through an outdoor market in a mixed Baghdad neighborhood Thursday, killing at least three people and wounding 26, police and hospital officials said.

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About the same time, a car bomb went off near a Shiite mosque in the restive town of Mahmoudiyah, 20 miles south of Baghdad, killing five people and wounding 15.

The mosque and four adjacent stores were slightly damaged, according to a police officer at the scene who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the media.

In the northwestern city of Tal Afar, sectarian violence continued Thursday, when five mortar shells hit a Shiite district, wounding three people, according to police Brig. Abdul-Karim al-Jibouri.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070329/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[Eugene]

4. Updated Reuters Factbox - 11 killed in various new incidents

Source: Reuters

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, March 29
29 Mar 2007 11:38:07 GMT
Source: Reuters

March 29 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1115 GMT
on Thursday:

* Indicates new or updated items.

-snip-

* MAHMUDIYA - A car bomb killed four people and wounded 20 in a parking lot
in Mahmudiya, 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. A Local official
in the town said eight people were killed and 12 wounded.

* MAHMUDIYA - Two mortar bombs landed in a residential district and killed two
people and wounded seven others in the town of Muhmudiya, police said.

-snip-

* MOSUL - Gunmen killed Nawaf al-Hadidi, Imam of a mosque in Mosul, in a drive-by
shooting on Wednesday, police said.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29374471.htm

[Eugene]

5. Car bomb, suicide bomber kill 10 in Baghdad

Source: Reuters

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, March 29
29 Mar 2007 16:51:06 GMT
Source: Reuters

March 29 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1630 GMT
on Thursday:

* Indicates new or updated items

-snip-

* BAGHDAD – A car bomb killed four policemen and one civilian and wounded nine
more police in Jihad in southwest Baghdad, the U.S. military said. Police were
checking a suspicious vehicle when it exploded.

BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber blew himself up in a market in the Shaab district of
northern Baghdad, killing five and wounding 15, a police source said.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29374471.htm

[maddezmom]

6. and then we have this: BOMB ATTACK IN SHI'ITE AREA OF BAGHDAD KILLS 60 PEOPLE - POLICE

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PAR960575.htm

[Eugene]

7. A check of the Factbox shows over 90 dead today.

:(

[maddezmom]

8. it's really depressing trying to keep it all together

:( I just can't imagine living through this as an Iraqi.

[maddezmom]

9. Suicide bombers kill more than 100 in Iraq

Suicide bombers kill more than 100 in Iraq
29 Mar 2007 17:10:28 GMT
Source: Reuters
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Background
Iraq in turmoil
More (Updates with Baghdad blast)

By Ahmed Rasheed

BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 29 (Reuters) - Suicide bombers killed more than 100 people in a Shi'ite neighbourhood of Baghdad and in a mainly Shi'ite town north of the Iraqi capital in a wave of sectarian violence on Thursday, police said.

A suicide bomber killed around 60 people in a market in the Shaab district of northern Baghdad, police sources said, in what appeared to be the latest in a string of attacks on Shi'ite districts and towns.

At about the same time, three suicide car bombs exploded within minutes of each other in Khalis, 80 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, killing about 50 people and wounding scores, police and hospital officials said.

The blasts follow a sharp upsurge in sectarian bloodshed, particularly outside the Iraqi capital, that has killed scores. Iraq has been swept by violence between majority Shi'ites and minority Sunnis that has killed tens of thousands.

more:http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL958118.htm