Suicide car bombers kill 10 in Iraq

[sabra]

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Suicide car bombers kill 10 in Iraq
Mon Jun 13, 2005 12:40 PM BST

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three suicide car bombers targeted U.S. and Iraqi security forces in separate attacks on Monday, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than 20, the Interior Ministry and police said.

The first blast occurred in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, where police pursued a suspicious driver who then blew up his car after being cornered.

The blast killed two policemen and a firefighter and wounded 11 people, including seven civilians, the Interior Ministry said.

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In Baghdad, a suicide bomber detonated his vehicle near a U.S. military patrol and an Iraqi police station, killing two civilians and wounding five, police said.
Witnesses said a U.S. army Humvee was on fire after the blast and said a U.S. helicopter arrived to evacuate the wounded. They said three U.S. soldiers were evacuated, but the details could not be confirmed with the U.S. military.

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[acmavm]

1. This can't be true. Our fearless leader and his henchmen told us that

we've turned the corner, it's getting better, blah, blah, blah. So how can this be? People can't still be fighting and dying when pResident AWOL declared the war over two years ago.

[RetroLounge]

2. It's just freedom marching

RL

[Halliburton]

3. I thought the elite Iraqi Security Forces had Baghad on lockdown...

And we killed 40 insurgents the other day. It's morning again in Iraq.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

4. 4 Bombings, Other Attacks Kill 10 in Iraq ...minutes ago

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Four suicide car bombings and other insurgent attacks Monday killed 10 people, and at least 16 Iraqis were wounded after militants opened fire on authorities trying to evacuate the injured from one of the blasts.

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The new wave of attacks in Baghdad, Samarra and Tikrit came as radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr met with the Russia ambassador and tribal chiefs from the insurgent hotbeds of Fallujah and Ramadi. Russia and al-Sadr fiercely opposed the war.

The meetings in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, south of the capital, seemed to be a sign of al-Sadr's desire to return to active politics after going into isolation last fall following clashes between his militia — the Imam al-Mahdi Army — and U.S. troops.

Al-Sadr has in recent weeks been trying to mediate between an influential Sunni Arab association and a Shiite militia that have traded accusations of targeting each others supporters and clerics.

Ambassador Vladimir Chamov was making the first visit by a Russian envoy to al-Sadr's office since the U.S.-led war began two years ago.

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In one such attack, a suicide car bomb targeting a U.S. convoy in Baghdad missed and instead killed a 6-year-old girl and injured another five Iraqis.

In Baghdad's western Radwanya district, another Iraqi army soldier was killed and three were injured by a car bomb, hospital officials said.

Police have also found the bullet-riddled bodies of 28 people — many thought to be Sunni Arabs — buried in shallow graves or dumped along streets in Baghdad. At least one was identified as a security guard at a leading Sunni charitable organization.

A suicide car bomber blew himself up about 9 a.m. in the Khadra neighborhood of Samarra, about 60 miles north of Baghdad, as an American-Iraqi patrol was passing by, police Lt. Qassim Mohammed said.

[Halliburton]

5. Hey!

This is not a story. Be sure to put that "Support Our Troops" sticker on your Hummer.

[Divine Discontent]

6. BULLET RIDDLED BODIES OF 28 PEOPLE

GOOD GOD....

this thing is SQUARELY on George Bush's soul. This is such a devastating world event that is going on, and to know dumbxuck is responsible, rather p's me off.


I cannot stand the idiot.

28 dead people just .... "found" by the police? it's sooooooo beyond out of control.

[Frederik]

7. radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr

He wants an end to the occupation of his country, which of course makes him "radical" and "anti-American".

[Pystoff]

8. Just another day...

In that sunny paradise called Iraq :patriot:

[The_Casual_Observer]

9. Get used to this. Those "insurgents" are relentless

Pursuing the installation of a friendly democratic government in Iraq is fruitless. The end result of this will be another Saddam/Egypt/Saudi/Iran.... repressive government. However, it won't be the government of our choosing.

[baron j]

10. Mission Accomplished!

The Mission to Stir Up a Hornets' Nest, that is...