Up to 30 gunmen attack Iraq ministry-sources

[ECH1969]

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Up to 30 gunmen in 10 cars opened fire on Iraq's interior ministry at around 6.15 a.m. (0215 GMT) on Monday morning, killing two policemen and wounding five, police and interior ministry sources said.

"Two policemen were killed and five wounded," an interior ministry source told Reuters, adding that the gunmen had used rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and automatic rifles.

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[NYC]

1. All hell seems to breaking loose in Iraq

from the little I've seen. I've been reading about the hurricane most of the time. I imagine most people are.

Civil war, and nobody in America will know about it.

[sabra]

2. the attacks are also very sophisticated and prices

last throes, yeah right!

[beetbox]

3. Militants Attack Iraq's Interior Ministry

Militants Attack Iraq's Interior Ministry

By SLOBODAN LEKIC, Associated Press Writer
September 5, 2005   4:50 pm


BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Insurgents launched a daring daylight assault Monday against the Interior Ministry in Baghdad, killing two police in a surge of attacks by al-Qaida's arm in Iraq. Two British soldiers died in a roadside bombing in the south.

U.S. Marines said Monday that al-Qaida in Iraq launched multiple attacks the day before against U.S. and Iraqi targets in Hit, 85 miles west of Baghdad. Eight civilians, an Iraqi soldier and three suicide bombers died in the Hit attacks

Elsewhere, at least eight Iraqi civilians -- including five children -- were killed in fighting Monday in Tal Afar, said Dr. Abdul-Aal Kamal of the northern city's hospital.

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However, Iraqi authorities said the bodies of three community leaders who had refused insurgent demands for help were found Monday in the city. Iraqi officers said gunmen swept through the victims' districts over the weekend as fighting around the city escalated.

In Baghdad, thunderous explosions and volleys of heavy gunfire rattled the downtown area soon after sunrise Monday as about four carloads of insurgents staged a lightning raid on the Interior Ministry, which is responsible for police and paramilitary units nationwide.

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[A-Schwarzenegger]

4. How is it determined that the attacks are by "al-Qaida's arm in Iraq"?

[paper chase guy]

5. It seems like...

"Insurgents" and "Al-Qaida" are being used interchangeably in news stories more and more often, sometimes in the same sentence.

[cvoogt]

6. imagine if pacifists attacked

... what's needed is a drug against war, to paraphrase KMFDM.