Blasts at Baghdad police station kill 7

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Blasts at Baghdad police station kill 7

By SINAN SALAHEDDIN, Associated Press Writer
3 minutes ago

BAGHDAD - Two car bombs exploded in the parking lot of a
police station in Baghdad on Sunday, killing seven people
and wounding about 30, police said.

The blasts occurred at about 10 a.m. in Baiyaa, a mixed
Sunni-Shiite area of western Baghdad, a policeman said on
condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to
talk to the media.

He said the victims included policemen and civilians.
He said the blasts damaged many homes near the police
station.

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Source: Reuters

Suicide car bombers kill 10 at Baghdad police station
22 Apr 2007 07:11:39 GMT
Source: Reuters

(Updates toll)

BAGHDAD, April 22 (Reuters) - Two suicide bombers rammed
their vehicles into a police station in southwestern Baghdad
on Sunday, killing 10 people and wounding 75, police said.

Police and civilians were among the dead and wounded in the
attack in the mostly Shi'ite al-Bayaa neighbourhood, police
said.

The blasts set several police vehicles on fire and damaged
the police station.


Link: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L22640546.htm

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Original story: Two suicide car bombs kill 2 at Baghdad police station - Reuters

[Erika]

1. Just another liberated day by W

He's happy as long as the corporate bids keep on flowing to his corporate buds.

[Eugene]

2. 11 bodies found in Baghdad Saturday - Reuters Factbox

Source: Reuters

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, April 22
22 Apr 2007 08:26:52 GMT
Source: Reuters

April 22 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 0800 GMT
on Sunday:

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BAGHDAD - The bodies of 11 people were found shot in different districts of Baghdad
on Saturday, police said.

-snip-

MADAEN - Two car bombs killed one person and wounded five others in Madaen,
about 45 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, on Saturday, police said.

BAGHDAD - A mortar round which landed in a residential district killed two people
and wounded two others in the southern Doura district of Baghdad, police said.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KAM235038.htm

[Eugene]

3. Bombs kill 17 people in Baghdad

Source: Reuters

Bombs kill 17 people in Baghdad
22 Apr 2007 13:58:15 GMT
Source: Reuters

(Adds new car bomb)

By Dean Yates and Ibon Villelabeitia

BAGHDAD, April 22 (Reuters) - Two suicide car bombers rammed
their vehicles into a Baghdad police station on Sunday, killing 12
people in one of the worst attacks aimed at Iraq's security forces
since a security crackdown was launched in the city.

The bombings in the mostly Shi'ite al-Bayaa neighbourhood in
southwestern Baghdad wounded 95, police said.

Most of the dead were civilians, police said, reversing earlier
statements that mainly police had been killed. The blasts damaged
the police station and also largely destroyed a garage next door,
collapsing rubble onto a dozen cars.

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In a separate attack, a car bomb in a Shi'ite enclave in the mostly
Sunni neighbourhood of Saidiya in southern Baghdad killed up to five
civilians and wounded 25 people, police said.

-snip-

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[Doctor_J]

4. Let's have a pool as to when the Green Zone falls

July 8

[Eugene]

5. Gunmen kill 23 workers in Iraq's Mosul - sources

Source: Reuters

Gunmen kill 23 workers in Iraq's Mosul - sources
22 Apr 2007 15:32:37 GMT
Source: Reuters

MOSUL, Iraq, April 22 (Reuters) - Gunmen killed 23 textile factory
workers and seriously wounded three after forcing them out of a
minibus in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Sunday, police and
hospital sources said.

Brigadier-General Mohammed al-Waggaa said the gunmen stopped
the vehicle and gunned down the employees in the eastern al-Nour
district of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq's
third-largest city. A source at a local hospital said 23 people were
killed.


Link: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L22702318.htm

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Source: Associated Press

Gunmen kill 23 from Iraqi religious sect

By LAUREN FRAYER, Associated Press Writer
22 minutes ago

BAGHDAD - Gunmen in northern Iraq stopped a bus filled with Christians
and members of a tiny Kurdish religious sect, police said, separating out
the groups and taking 23 of the passengers away to be shot.

Police said the execution-style killings of the Yazidis — a primarily
Kurdish sect that worships an angel figure considered to be the devil by
some Muslims and Christians — appeared to be in response to the stoning
death of a Yazidi woman who had recently converted to Islam.

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The gunmen checked passengers' identification, then asked the Christians
to get off the bus, said police Brig. Mohammed al-Wagga.

With the Yazidis still inside, the gunmen drove them to eastern Mosul,
where they were lined up along a wall and shot to death, al-Wagga said.

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[maddezmom]

6. More than 70 Iraqis killed in violence

More than 70 Iraqis killed in violence By THOMAS WAGNER, Associated Press Writer
28 minutes ago



BAGHDAD - Gunmen shot and killed 23 members of an ancient religious sect in northern Iraq on Sunday after stopping their bus and separating out followers of other faiths, while at least 20 people were killed in car bombings in the capital.

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Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told Egypt's leader, meanwhile, to ignore widespread reports that the country is suffering "a civil or sectarian war." He also said he would halt the construction of a barrier that would separate a Sunni enclave from surrounding Shiite areas in Baghdad that had drawn sharp criticism from Sunni leaders and residents.

In the northern Iraq attack, armed men stopped the bus as it was carrying workers from a textile factory in Mosul to their hometown of Bashika, which has a mixed population of Christians and Yazidis — a primarily Kurdish sect that worships an angel figure considered to be the devil by some Muslims ad Christians.

The gunmen checked the passengers' identification cards, then asked all Christians to get off the bus, said police Brig. Mohammed al-Wagga. With the Yazidis still inside, the gunmen drove them to eastern Mosul, where they were lined up along a wall and shot to death, al-Wagga said.

After the killings, hundreds of Yazidis took to the streets of Bashika. Shops were shuttered and many Muslim residents closed themselves in their homes, fearing reprisal attacks. Police set up additional checkpoints across the city.

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