Security incidents in Iraq, Aug 23

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Security incidents in Iraq, Aug 23
23 Aug 2005 16:01:46 GMT

Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Following are security incidents reported in Iraq on Tuesday, Aug. 23, as of 1600 GMT.

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

Asterisk denotes a new or updated item.

* BAQUBA - A suicide bomber killed a U.S. soldier, an American contractor and four Iraqi security guards at a joint coordination centre in Baquba 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement. The attack wounded nine U.S. soldiers, four Iraqi police officers and six Iraqi civilians.

RAMADI - Three car bombs exploded near U.S. forces in Ramadi, 110 km (70 miles) west of Baghdad, in an apparently coordinated strike by insurgents, police and witnesses said. They said a car blew up next to a U.S. convoy, damaging a U.S. vehicle and wounding three bystanders. A suicide truck bomber rammed a building often used by U.S. troops, bringing down part of the structure. As U.S. reinforcements arrived, a third bomb concealed in a car parked near a mosque went off, a reporter for Reuters said. U.S. forces in Ramadi did not immediately reply to a request for information.

NAJAF - Two policemen were killed and another wounded by insurgents during a raid on the town of Haydariya, 30 km (20 miles) north of Najaf. A police source said insurgents were taken into custody after the raid.

BAQUBA - A policeman was killed when gunmen burst into his house in the Yarmouk district of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, a relative of the policeman said.

BAGHDAD - A deputy justice minister's motorcade was ambushed by gunmen near the Shurta tunnel, southwestern Baghdad. A police source said three of his bodyguards were wounded.

KIRKUK - Iraqi Environment Minister Nermeen Othman survived an assassination attempt on Monday, a ministry official said. Three of the Kurdish politician's bodyguards were wounded when gunmen opened fire on her convoy south of Kirkuk, as she was travelling from the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya to Baghdad.

TIKRIT - An energy pipeline from Baiji refinery to Baghdad was blown up at dawn in Isshaaqi town, 30 km (20 miles) north of Balad, a source at the Baiji refinery said.

BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier was killed in a rocket attack in southern Baghdad on Monday afternoon, the U.S. military said in a statement.

FALLUJA - A U.S. Marine was killed on Sunday when the vehicle he was in was struck by a roadside bomb during combat operations near Falluja, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement.

(Reporting by Twana Osman in Sulaimaniya, Majid Hameed in Rumadi, Faris al-Mehdawi in Baquba, Amir Salman in Tikrit and Alastair Macdonald, Aseel Kami, Luke Baker and Hiba Moussa in Baghdad)

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1. Thanks and a question: you can gather this info,

why can't the MSM? :wtf: