Security incidents in Iraq, Aug 15

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Security incidents in Iraq, Aug 15
15 Aug 2005 19:00:00 GMT

Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Following are security incidents reported in Iraq on Monday, Aug. 15, as of 1830 GMT.

U.S. and Iraqi forces are battling a Sunni Arab insurgency against the Shi'ite and Kurdish-led government in Baghdad.

An asterisk denotes a new or updated item.

KERBALA - Police in southern Iraq said on Monday they had discovered 30 bodies of people apparently tortured, shot and buried six months ago, in the village of Uwarige, south of the capital. Colonel Salam Taraad, of the Hilla police department, said two of the victims were women.

BUHRIZ - Four Iraqi soldiers were killed and three injured when gunmen ambushed their checkpoint in southern Buhriz, 45 km (28 miles) north of Baghdad, military and hospital sources said. * BAGHDAD - Four civilians were killed and four wounded when gunmen opened fire on a crowd in the southern Baghdad suburb of Hay al-Amil, police said. * BAGHDAD - Lieutenant Colonel Khaled Badran of the Iraqi army was shot dead as he drove in central Baghdad with his brother, police said. The brother was wounded.

BAGHDAD - Police said one civilian was killed and another three wounded when a roadside bomb targeted a U.S. military convoy in Khadhraa district, central Baghdad. There were no immediate reports on U.S. casualties.

LATIFIYA - Police said a civilian car was shot at by a U.S. convoy in Latifiya, south of Baghdad, killing its driver and wounding another two people. The U.S. military had no immediate comment on the incident.

BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber on a motorcycle wounded 11 people when he blew himself up in a central Baghdad restaurant popular with police officers, police sources said. The attack on Abu Ahmed's restaurant in the bustling Karrada district took place at lunchtime.

BAGHDAD - Mohammed Hassan Muhyi, a member of a municipality in the western Adil district of the capital, was killed by gunmen, a police source said.

BAGHDAD - Police sources said a mortar round landed on an Interior Ministry building, east of the capital, wounding 20.

TIKRIT - Mahir Younis, an Iraqi contractor working with the U.S. army, was abducted for the second time in al-Qadissiya area, north of Tikrit, a police source said. (Reporting by Faris al-Mehdawi in Baquba, Sami Jumaili in Kerbala, Amir Salman in Tikrit and Walid Ibrahim and Lutfi Abu Oun in Baghdad)

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1. freedom is messy

and hard work. :grr: