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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: jlallen who wrote (12934)7/11/2006 9:24:08 PM
From: Rock_nj  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 20039
 
Good News From Iraq Today (in case you thought the war was actually going well)

07/11/06 Reuters: Mourners gunned down in Baghdad (video)
Gunmen ambushed a minibus in a Sunni neighbourhood in southern Baghdad as it was returning from a funeral in a holy Shi'ite city, killing 10 people and wounding one.

07/11/06 AP: Gunmen kill 2 civilians in Kirkuk, 1in Taji
Elsewhere, gunmen killed an engineer with Iraq's North Oil Co. and his driver in Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad. Gunmen also ambushed a minivan in Taji...killing one passenger and wounding five, Lt. Mohammad Khayoun said.

07/11/06 AP: Nine Iraqi soldiers killed three wounded near Sharqat. Police also said gunmen opened fire on an Iraqi army convoy near Sharqat on Monday evening, killing nine soldiers and wounding three.

07/11/06 AP: Gunmen kill two civilians in Baquba
Northeast of Baghdad, gunmen in a speeding car fired randomly at textile shops in Baqouba, killing two shop owners and wounding four others, police said.

07/11/06 AP: Gunmen kill five civilians in western Baghdad
Gunmen in three cars attacked a Saudi Arabian import/export company in the upscale Mansour neighborhood in western Baghdad, killing five Iraqi employees before fleeing, Capt. Jamil Hussein said.

07/11/06 AP: Bomb kills 2, wounds 6 in central Baghdad
A parked car bomb also exploded in the central Baghdad neighborhood of Karradah, killing two people and wounding six, he said.

07/11/06 AP: Bomb kills 2, wounds 18 in southeastern Baghdad
A bomb planted under a fuel tanker exploded between a market and a medical center in the southeastern Baghdad suburb of Nahrawan, killing two people and wounding 18, Lt. Bilal Ali said. It sparked a fire that was extinguished, Ali said.

07/11/06 AP: Iraq Sunnis End Boycott; Attacks Kill 39
The largest Sunni bloc in parliament said Tuesday it will lift a legislative boycott after a call for unity by a radical Shiite cleric and promises that a kidnapped legislator will be released

07/11/06 Reuters: Suicide bomber kills five outside of green zone
A suicide bomber blew himself up outside the fortified Green Zone government compound, killing five people and wounding 10, as parliament prepared to meet a few hundred yards away.

07/11/06 AFP: Ten Iraqi soldiers killed in Salaheddin province
In Iraq's northern Salaheddin province a raging gunbattle between Iraqi troops and villagers left 10 soldiers dead, a security source said.

07/11/06 AP: Group Claims 3 GIs Killed Over Rape-Murders
An al-Qaida-linked group claims it killed three U.S. soldiers last month and mutilated two of their bodies to avenge the rape-slaying of a young Iraqi woman by troops of the same unit, an institute which monitors extremists Web sites said Tuesday

07/11/06 Reuters: Gunmen ambush bus in Baghdad, killing 10
Sectarian violence rocked Baghdad again on Tuesday, as gunmen ambushed a minibus as it drove through a Sunni neighborhood bringing Shiites from a funeral and killing 10 of those aboard, police said.

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