Three killed in Iraq mine blasts (Kirkuk, Friday)

[Barrett808]

THREE people were killed and four wounded, including a US soldier, when two mines dating to the ousted regime of Saddam Hussein went off near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, an Iraqi police officer said today.

The first mine exploded on the main road between Kirkuk and Lailan to the south-east as a car drove by last night, killing a man and his wife who were in the vehicle.

Their four-year-old daughter lost both legs, said local police chief Hashem al-Hamdani.

A police unit that went to the site of the blast concluded that the mine had been planted under the former regime, which declared that area a military zone.

As the policemen searched the site, another mine went off, killing one of them and wounding two others as well as an American soldier who was accompanying the Iraqis, Hamdani said.

The US soldier was injured in the right leg, he said.

It was not immediately possible to confirm this with the US army.

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[Newsjock]

1. How many deaths are we not being told about?

It was not immediately possible to confirm this with the US army.

How long can they be kept hidden? Are families keeping quiet as well, or are they not being told? Don't they have to be told sometime?

[lindashaw]

3. I read early yesterday in a Pershwar (sp) paper that four GIs...

had been taken prisoner by the Taliban. Has anyone heard anything about this? Goodness, getting news out of Afghanistan is excruciating. And I'm sickened by this poor girl's plight, but it's not like it's the first in this sad, sad country. All this for pipelines.

[Skittles]

2. a 4 year old loses her parents and her legs

war