FACTBOX-Developments in Iraq on July 12

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FACTBOX-Developments in Iraq on July 12
12 Jul 2006 14:15:53 GMT
Source: Reuters

July 12 (Reuters) - The following are security developments in Iraq on Wednesday as of 1400 GMT.
Asterisk denotes a new or updated item.

*BAGHDAD - Clashes erupted between Iraqi policemen and gunmen in the mostly Shi'ite district of Um al-Maalif in southern Baghdad, killing one civilian and one policeman, police said. Two police cars were burnt, they added.

*TIKRIT - One policeman was killed when gunmen shot at a police patrol in central Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

*TIKRIT - The bodies of two carpenters were found with gunshot wounds in Tikrit, police said.

MUQDADIYA - Iraqi security forces said they had found the bodies of 20 bus drivers kidnapped earlier from a bus station in Muqdadiya, 100 km (60 miles) northeast of Baghdad.

HASSWA - One civilian was killed and six were wounded when a car bomb exploded near an Iraqi army headquarters in the town of Hasswa, about 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK - Gunmen killed a policeman in the northern city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK - A body with gunshot wounds and signs of torture was found near Kirkuk, police said.

BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber walked into a restaurant in eastern Baghdad on Wednesday and blew himself up, killing seven people and wounding 20, police said.

BAGHDAD - Three civilians, including a child, were wounded when a roadside bomb went off near a police patrol in northern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed a Baghdad University professor on Tuesday in the western Mansur district, police said.

TIKRIT - A bomb exploded near a private clinic owned by the wife of the Governor of Salahaddin, killing her and wounding two of her aides on Tuesday in Tikrit, police said.

OTHER DEVELOPMENTS
*BAGHDAD - Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told parliament that a national reconciliation plan he has promoted was Iraq's "last chance" to stem the violence. "If it fails, I don't know what the destiny of Iraq will be," he said.

BAGHDAD - The U.S. military commander in Iraq, General George Casey, told U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld during a visit to Baghdad that Shi'ite extremist groups are fuelling sectarian violence in Iraq.

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1. I hadn't read one of these in awhile.

It's distubing to see the whole collection of mayhem - that occurs on a daily basis. Not just this here and that there - now and then.

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2. K & R