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Round-up of daily violence, Monday 16 July 2007
By Mohammed al Dulaimy McClatchy newspapers
The daily Iraq violence report is compiled by McClatchy Newspapers Special Correspondents in Baghdad from police, military and medical reports. This is not a comprehensive list of all violence in Iraq, much of which goes unreported. It’s posted without editing as transmitted to McClatchy’s Washington Bureau.
Baghdad - Around 4 a.m. an IED explosion targeted an Iraqi army patrol in Bub Al Sham area. 5 soldiers were killed and one was injured. - Around 7 a.m. mortar shells landed in Abu Disheer. 2 residents were killed and 6 were injured. - Around 10 a.m. a parked car bomb detonated in Al Arasat area. 1 civilian was killed and 3 were injured. - Around 11 a.m. a mortar shell landed in the vicinity of Babil hotel. 2 civilians were injured. - Around 4 p.m. a suicide car bomb targeted national Iraqi police in Al Harthiyah. 2 killed (one of the two was civilian) and 12 were injured (8 of them were civilians). - A kidnapped man was released by his abductors. The man drove back to his family in New Baghdad, district 702. As soon as he entered the house the car exploded killing 2 and injuring 5 of the family. The man was killed. - A mortar shell targeted Al Sadr police station. One vehicle was damaged. - An American helicopter killed on man in Sheikh Omar area today, Iraqi police said. - Iraqi police found 25 dead bodies throughout the capital. 2 in Shuala, 3 in Saidiyah, 1 in Ealam, 1 in Qadisiyah, 2 in Shurta Rabiaa, 6 in Amil, 4 in Doura, 3 in Bayaa, 1 in Jisr Diyala, 1 in Sleikh, 1 in Sadr. Kirkuk - Series of bombings in the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk killed 70 and injured 160, Kirkuk hospital official said today. The four bombings in different areas of the city took place around midday. A suicide truck bomb targeted the head quarter of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) causing severe damages to the building and the surrounding building that most of it follow the party. The second explosion was a parked car bomb in the busy bus station in the city and the market. The third explosion was a suicide car bomb targeted Iraqi police patrol killing one police officer and injuring 4 other policemen. The fourth explosion was a controlled explosion when the troops suspected a parked car to be a car bomb, causing no human casualties. - An IED explosion targeted a police patrol in Al Hawija west of Kirkuk yesterday night. One police was injured. ......... (oh there's more - click on the link for the rest)
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Juan Cole has excellent coverage of what is going on over there each day. I never miss reading his site.
He references papers from around the world, plus he is a prof of mid eastern affairs.
It's amazing how "things are looking up" but the violence isn't going down. We've turned the entire nation into a case-study in mob-rule . . . it's like we transported our inner-city problems from when Reagan was president over to Iraq, gave them bigger weapons and took away any chance to escape the 'hood.
What a disaster.
Heard something on the news about sending even more troops after the September report to congress, the term "resurg" was used. Don't know where they are going to get enough troops to keep the levels they have now. Hell, they might try to call up the more of the Individual Ready Reserves and call back retirees like me. But this is just idle speculation on my part.
pop, rick and bb, while riding home yesterday i was listening to npr. they were talking about the number of (mostly headless and mostly showing signs of torture) bodies that have been found floating in the tigres. i almost had to pull over and i'll tell you this right now. i had to stop typing for a sec because i was dry heaving
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