Saturday, September 09, 2006
Another day of violence
Security
Despite tight security controls in Karbala for the Shia Shaaban religios festival, bomb attacks and murders continued across the country on Saturday. In Baghdad two civilians were killed in a bomb attack targetting a US patrol in the city centre. The police force was targetted again as a suicide bomber tried to ram his vehicle into a police station in Waziriyah, northern Baghdad. Police and civilians were killed. An employee of the state-owned newspaper al-Sabah was shot dead.
In Kirkuk, in the north, two blasts killed four people and wounded 16. The second device wad detonated as a police patrol arrived at the scene of the first blast. In Tikrit, one civilian was found shot dead. South of Baghdad, five bodies were discovered in Suwayrah, a town which has become a dumping ground for victims of sectarian killings. They had been shot dead. Following the killing of several prominent tribal leaders in the Sunni north and west, Ibrahim al-Khalaf, leader of the Bugara tribe and a city councilman was shot dead in Hawija, near Kirkuk. He had announced support of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's project for national reconciliation.
