Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Attacks step up as Operation Imposing Law continues
Security
(Al Jazeera) More than 40 civilians and several Iraqi and US soldiers have died in a series of attacks in Baghdad, a day after more than 60 people were killed when two car bombs were detonated near a market. Monday's killings were the latest blow to a joint security operation by US and Iraqi forces aimed at improving security in the capital.
In Baghdad, the bloodshed included at least 11 people killed in a mortar attack on a Shia enclave and five killed when a suicide attacker detonated a bomb-rigged belt on a public bus headed for the mostly Shia area of Karradah, police reported.
On a highway about nine miles northwest of Baghdad, armed men stopped a minivan and assassinated all 13 occupants, including an elderly woman and two boys, accusing them of opposing al-Qaeda in Iraq, police and witnesses said. North of Baghdad, a suicide car bomber attacked a house in the Khazraj district belonging to an Iraqi army major, killing five soldiers and wounding 10 others, police said. In a separate incident, one person was killed and seven others were injured in a car bomb explosion in Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad, police said. In the northern city of Tal Afar, five people, including a six-year-old boy, were killed by a roadside bomb, Najim Abdullah, a local official, said.
In Baghdad, the bloodshed included at least 11 people killed in a mortar attack on a Shia enclave and five killed when a suicide attacker detonated a bomb-rigged belt on a public bus headed for the mostly Shia area of Karradah, police reported.
On a highway about nine miles northwest of Baghdad, armed men stopped a minivan and assassinated all 13 occupants, including an elderly woman and two boys, accusing them of opposing al-Qaeda in Iraq, police and witnesses said. North of Baghdad, a suicide car bomber attacked a house in the Khazraj district belonging to an Iraqi army major, killing five soldiers and wounding 10 others, police said. In a separate incident, one person was killed and seven others were injured in a car bomb explosion in Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad, police said. In the northern city of Tal Afar, five people, including a six-year-old boy, were killed by a roadside bomb, Najim Abdullah, a local official, said.
Outside Baghdad, nearly 150 people were hospitalized complaining of breathing problems, vomiting and other ailments after a truck carrying a chlorine-based substance was hit by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad, said Brig. Gen. Qassim Moussawi, a military spokesman. Two people died in the blast and the others were treated after being exposed to fumes and debris near Taji, about 12 miles northwest of Baghdad, Moussawi said. All those treated were in stable condition.
Tens of thousands of US and Iraqi troops have been deployed in Baghdad as part of Operation Fardh al-Qanoon - Operation Imposing Law - which officially started last week.
Tens of thousands of US and Iraqi troops have been deployed in Baghdad as part of Operation Fardh al-Qanoon - Operation Imposing Law - which officially started last week.
Labels: Operation Fardh al-Qanoon, Operation Imposing Law -
