Suicide car bomb kills 13 at Iraq police station

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Source: Reuters

Suicide car bomb kills 13 at Iraq police station
02 Aug 2007 09:59:13 GMT

BAGHDAD, Aug 2 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber drove a car bomb into
a police station on Thursday, killing 13 people and wounding 15 in the
town of Hibhib, north of Baghdad near Baquba, police said.

A police source said the attacker struck a queue of recruits lined up
to join the police force in the town. The dead included six police and
seven civilians.

The attack followed a day of major strikes in Baghdad, in which suicide
bombers killed more than 70 people.

Hibhib is in Diyala province, the area north of the capital which has
been a focus of a U.S. offensive over the past two months after
Washington dispatched extra troops to Iraq and spread them out in
neighbourhoods within Baghdad itself.


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1. Al-Qaeda warlord killed, emirs arrested in Iraq crackdown

Source: Agence France-Presse

Al-Qaeda warlord killed, emirs arrested in Iraq crackdown

by Jennie Matthew
51 minutes ago

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi troops killed a local Al-Qaeda warlord and
US soldiers arrested two of the extremist network's chieftains,
during several operations announced Thursday in the wake of deadly
bomb attacks.

The raids were announced after a series of car bombings killed at
least 70 people in Baghdad on Wednesday, which served as a bloody
backdrop to mounting political crisis in Iraq's shrinking coalition
government.

A militant known as Safi, touted as Al-Qaeda in Iraq's emir of Mosul,
was killed in a shootout with Iraqi soldiers on Wednesday after he
and two cohorts were spotted driving in the country's third largest
city, the US military said.

An Iraqi unit gave chase and halted the vehicle. Safi and his
bodyguards jumped out and opened fire. Iraqi troops returned fire
and the three members of the Al-Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate were killed,
the US Army said.

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2. 60 killed or found dead in Iraq Thursday - Reuters Factbox

Source: Reuters

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Aug 2
02 Aug 2007 15:09:19 GMT
Source: Reuters

Aug 2 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq
at 1500 GMT on Thursday:

* denotes new or updated item:

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* KIRKUK - Police found the bodies of five brothers, all day
labourers, who had been kidnapped near al-Rashaad district
40 km southwest of Kirkuk a day earlier. A sixth brother, six
or seven years old, was found nearby unharmed.

TIKRIT - U.S. soldiers discovered a mass grave on July 31 near
the village of Muhbabiya in Diyala province north of Baghdad
that contained 17 bodies, including those of women, children
and elderly people, the U.S. military said. All were believed
to be Sunnis. Villagers blamed al Qaeda militants.

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