Security incidents in Iraq, Sept 25

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Security incidents in Iraq, Sept 25
25 Sep 2005 14:32:44 GMT

Source: Reuters

Sept 25 (Reuters) - Following are security incidents reported in Iraq on Sunday, Sept. 25, as of 1415 GMT.

U.S. and Iraqi forces are battling a Sunni Arab insurgency against the Shi'ite and Kurdish-led government in Baghdad.

Asterisk denotes new or updated item.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen stole $850,000 in cash on Sunday after holding up a convoy of armoured vehicles from the Iraqi Finance Ministry in Baghdad and killing two guards and wounding nine, police said. The gunmen forced the vehicles to halt as they travelled through Mansour, an upmarket district in the west of the capital.

BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomber killed 13 Iraqi police commandos and wounded 10 when he detonated his vehicle near a convoy of police special forces in eastern Baghdad, police said.

HILLA - A suicide bomber on a bicycle killed four civilians, including a woman and a child, and injured 35 when he blew himself up in a crowded market in the southern Shi'ite city of Hilla, police said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. troops clashed with militia fighters loyal to rebel Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in eastern Baghdad on Sunday, killing eight militiamen and wounding five, Iraqi police said.

BAGHDAD - The bodies of four Iraqis were found blindfolded and bound in the impoverished Baghdad district of Shula. Police said the victims were each shot with one bullet to the head.

THULUIYA - The U.S military said one of the militants it killed in the town of Thuluiya on Friday was Jabbar Ateyia, a member of the city council.

BAGHDAD - A dairy shop owner was killed by gunmen on his way to a mosque in western Baghdad, police said. It was not clear why the man had been targeted.

RAMADI - About 1,000 people marched through the town of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, to protest against the constitution, carrying pictures of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein and posters of anti-U.S Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

Witnesses said the demonstrators demanded the release of all prisoners including Saddam, who is awaiting trial on charges of mass killings.

* MOSUL - A roadside bomb killed one policeman and wounded three others in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad.

(Reporting by Faris al-Mehdawi in Baquba, Sami al-Jumaili in Kerbala, Habib al-Zubaidi in Hilla and Ammar al-Alwani in Ramadi)

[izzie]

1. Does it ever stop?

What is wrong with the people in DC?