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Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"Harry Hope" |
| Date: |
17 Jun 2006 08:00:34 AM |
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News from Bush's Iraq quagmire is, as usual, all bad. |
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13355608/
Baghdad security crackdown has little effect
More than 30 killed in fresh strikes;
U.S. searches for 2 missing soldiers
BAGHDAD, Iraq -
Bomb and mortar attacks killed at least 31 people in and near Baghdad
on Saturday in violence that showed no sign of easing despite a
security crackdown in the capital.
U.S. forces were searching for two American soldiers who went missing
after an attack on Friday in which one U.S. soldier was killed in the
Sunni insurgent stronghold of Youssifiyah, south of Baghdad.
"After hearing small arms fire and explosions in the vicinity of the
checkpoint, a quick reaction force responded to the scene. Coalition
forces have initiated a search operation to locate and determine the
status of the soldiers," it said.
More than 2,500 U.S. soldiers have died in Iraq since the U.S.-led
invasion in 2003.
Saturday’s violence followed a vow by al-Qaida in Iraq’s new leader to
avenge the death of his predecessor Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was
killed in a U.S. airstrike last week.
In the deadliest attack, a car bomb targeting Iraqi army and police
killed 11 people.
Reuters Television footage showed the blackened remains of at least
six burned-out cars.
A charred body was taken on a stretcher to an ambulance.
A man with blood on his face stood nearby looking stunned and smoking
a cigarette.
New Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who is under pressure to rein in
violence that has killed tens of thousands of Iraqis, on Wednesday
launched a much-trumpeted security sweep with 50,000 Iraqi forces
backed by 7,000 U.S. troops to pile pressure on al-Qaida in Iraq.
But the operation, mounted one day after President Bush made a
surprise visit to Baghdad to bolster al-Maliki’s month-old government,
has failed to stop attacks.
In more violence, a bomb killed six people and wounded 11 in a crowded
market in central Baghdad and mortar rounds killed two people and
wounded 14 in another market in the Shiite district of Kadhimiya.
Market attacks
Attacks on crowded markets are a common tactic used by al-Qaida in
Iraq as part of what U.S. officials say is a campaign to ignite a
sectarian civil war between majority Shiites and Sunni Arabs.
In the town of Mahmudiya just south of the capital, a car bomb
targeting an Iraqi army checkpoint killed seven people.
Four days into the crackdown, the Interior Ministry has not announced
any arrests or other results.
As the wounded from Saturday’s blasts were being treated, state
television broadcast footage of Iraqi soldiers marching to the sound
of martial music, part of a government campaign to bolster the image
of its security forces.
The U.S. military has said it expects the new leader of al-Qaida in
Iraq, who it identified as Abu Ayyub al-Masri, to use the same tactics
as al-Zarqawi, a Sunni Arab militant who had concentrated mass attacks
against Shiites.
On Friday, a suicide bomber killed at least 10 people in a Shiite
mosque in Baghdad.
An Iraqi militant body linked with al-Qaida in Iraq pledged on Friday
to continue a holy war against U.S. forces until "doomsday."
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06/17/06 CNN: Minibus bomb kills 4, wounds 7
A bomb exploded in a minibus that was carrying passengers. Four people
were killed and seven others were wounded.
06/17/06 Reuters: Car bomb kills civilain near Iraq's National Theatre
A car bomb exploded near Iraq's National Theatre in central Baghdad,
killing one person and wounding five, police said.
06/17/06 Reuters: Gunmen kill civilian in Mahaweel
Gunmen in a car shot dead a civilian near his house on Friday in the
town of Mahaweel, 75 km (45 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
06/17/06 CNN suicide car bomb kills 10 civilians, 1 Iraqi soldier
The deadliest attack was the suicide car bomb, which targeted an Iraqi
army-police patrol in central Baghdad around 11 a.m. Eleven people,
including one Iraqi soldier, were killed and 15 people were wounded,
including 8 soldiers and 3 police.
06/17/06 KUNA: Store owner and child killed in Somar neighborhood
unknown gunmen killed the owner of a vegetables store in the Somar
neighborhood...the store exploded shortly after the police forces
removed the dead body. The store was demolished and a child was killed
due to the blast.
06/17/06 KUNA: Three Iraqi soldiers, civilians killed in armed attacks
in Mosul
An Iraqi police source in Mosul told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that
three Iraqi soldiers were killed when an explosive device targeted a
military patrol in Talafar in western Mosul.
06/17/06 Reuters: Bomb kills six in Baghdad market
A bomb exploded in a crowded market in central Baghdad on Saturday,
killing six people and wounding 11, police said. Earlier, mortar
rounds killed two people and wounded 14 in another market also in the
Iraqi capital
06/17/06 Reuters: Attacks in Baghdad kill at least 31
Bomb and mortar attacks killed at least 31 people in and near Baghdad
on Saturday in violence that showed no sign of easing despite a
security crackdown against al Qaeda in the capital.
06/17/06 AP: Death threats are alleged in Marine investigations
Pentagon investigators threatened the death penalty and used other
coercive techniques to obtain statements from some of the seven
Marines and a Navy corpsman jailed at Camp Pendleton in the shooting
death of an Iraqi civilian
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Harry
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