Monday, April 16, 2007
Shias targeted in bomb attacks as British helicopters collide
Security
(Al Jazeera) - Bomb attacks killed at least 26 people in Baghdad, while two British helicopters crashed after an apparent mid-air collision that killed two crew members. Five other people were injured when the Puma transport helicopters crashed on Sunday near a large US air base in Taji, 20km from Baghdad. It appeared the helicopters may have collided in mid-air, the US military said. Earlier, two car bombs killed 18 people and wounded 50 more in the al-Shurta al-Rabeia neighbourhood in southwest Baghdad.
The first was detonated in a market, followed seconds later by another at a nearby intersection, police said. Mortar rounds also landed in the area as part of an apparently co-ordinated attack, they added. In the district of al-Utaifiya, a suicide bomber blew himself up in a minibus, killing six people and wounding 10.
In Karrada, near the centre of the capital, a car bomb aimed at a police patrol killed five people and wounded another 10 in a blast that rattled windows hundreds of metres away, police said. Meanwhile, in Mosul, 390 km north of Baghdad, four Iraqi soldiers were killed when two oil trucks driven by suicide bombers exploded outside an Iraqi military base, police said. "We have seen a rise in the number of car bomb attacks. We have been very diligent in taking down these people who build these car bombs. We are taking one cell at a time," Rear Admiral Mark Fox, US military spokesman, said on Sunday.
The helicopter crash brought the British death toll in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003 to 142. Eight have been killed this month alone. Puma helicopters normally have a three-person crew and can carry up to 16 troops. Fighters shot down eight helicopters during a month-long period earlier this year, killing 28 people, mainly American soldiers. Six of those aircraft were US military helicopters and the other two belonged to a private American security company.
The first was detonated in a market, followed seconds later by another at a nearby intersection, police said. Mortar rounds also landed in the area as part of an apparently co-ordinated attack, they added. In the district of al-Utaifiya, a suicide bomber blew himself up in a minibus, killing six people and wounding 10.
In Karrada, near the centre of the capital, a car bomb aimed at a police patrol killed five people and wounded another 10 in a blast that rattled windows hundreds of metres away, police said. Meanwhile, in Mosul, 390 km north of Baghdad, four Iraqi soldiers were killed when two oil trucks driven by suicide bombers exploded outside an Iraqi military base, police said. "We have seen a rise in the number of car bomb attacks. We have been very diligent in taking down these people who build these car bombs. We are taking one cell at a time," Rear Admiral Mark Fox, US military spokesman, said on Sunday.
The helicopter crash brought the British death toll in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003 to 142. Eight have been killed this month alone. Puma helicopters normally have a three-person crew and can carry up to 16 troops. Fighters shot down eight helicopters during a month-long period earlier this year, killing 28 people, mainly American soldiers. Six of those aircraft were US military helicopters and the other two belonged to a private American security company.
Labels: al-Shurta al-Rabeia, al-Utaifiya, British helicopters, Iraqi Army base, Mosul, Puma transport helicopter, suicide bombings, Taji
Saturday, April 07, 2007
Round-up of violence across Iraq
(Reuters) - Security developments in Iraq as of 1130 GMT on Saturday:
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* SAMARRA - A suicide bomber targeting an Iraqi army checkpoint killed five Iraqi soldiers in Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
RAMADI - The death toll from a chlorine truck bomb attack on a police checkpoint in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Friday rose to 12 civilians, the U.S. military said. The blast wounded 43, including eight women and five children.
BAGHDAD - An explosively formed projectile (EFP) killed one U.S. soldier and wounded four when it blew up next to a U.S. patrol in eastern Baghdad on Friday, the U.S. military said.
HIMREEN - Gunmen kidnapped 10 people who were travelling in a minivan near Himreen, 100 km (60 miles) south of Kirkuk, police said. The identity of the victims and the motivation for the kidnapping were not immediately clear.
BAGHDAD - The bodies of 11 people were found dumped across Baghdad in the past 24 hours, police said.
SUWAYRA - Insurgents killed an Iraqi soldier and wounded six others when they attacked an Iraqi army base on Friday evening near Suwayra, just south of Baghdad, police said.
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* SAMARRA - A suicide bomber targeting an Iraqi army checkpoint killed five Iraqi soldiers in Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
RAMADI - The death toll from a chlorine truck bomb attack on a police checkpoint in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Friday rose to 12 civilians, the U.S. military said. The blast wounded 43, including eight women and five children.
BAGHDAD - An explosively formed projectile (EFP) killed one U.S. soldier and wounded four when it blew up next to a U.S. patrol in eastern Baghdad on Friday, the U.S. military said.
HIMREEN - Gunmen kidnapped 10 people who were travelling in a minivan near Himreen, 100 km (60 miles) south of Kirkuk, police said. The identity of the victims and the motivation for the kidnapping were not immediately clear.
BAGHDAD - The bodies of 11 people were found dumped across Baghdad in the past 24 hours, police said.
SUWAYRA - Insurgents killed an Iraqi soldier and wounded six others when they attacked an Iraqi army base on Friday evening near Suwayra, just south of Baghdad, police said.
Labels: abduction, Baghdad, EFP, Himreen, Iraqi Army, Iraqi Army base, Ramadi, Samrra, suicide bomber, Suwayra
Sunday, April 01, 2007
Round-up of violence across Iraq
Security
(Reuters) - Security developments in Iraq at 1500 GMT on Sunday (follow link for full list).
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* MOSUL - Two suicide truck bombs killed two people and wounded 17 when they exploded at an Iraqi army base east of the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (242 miles) north of Baghdad, on Sunday, police said. Police said the two dead were civilians while most of the wounded were soldiers.
* BAGHDAD - Omar al-Jubouri, a member of the Sunni Islamic Party and a parliament member, escaped a roadside bomb attack in the Yarmouk district in western Baghdad. No one in his motorcade was hurt, the office of the Islamic Party said. Police said two of his guards were wounded.
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* MOSUL - Two suicide truck bombs killed two people and wounded 17 when they exploded at an Iraqi army base east of the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (242 miles) north of Baghdad, on Sunday, police said. Police said the two dead were civilians while most of the wounded were soldiers.
* BAGHDAD - Omar al-Jubouri, a member of the Sunni Islamic Party and a parliament member, escaped a roadside bomb attack in the Yarmouk district in western Baghdad. No one in his motorcade was hurt, the office of the Islamic Party said. Police said two of his guards were wounded.
JIBLA - Gunmen killed an official in the office of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in the town of Jibla, near the southern city of Hilla, on Saturday, police said. Gunmen also killed the guard of a Sunni mosque and set the mosque on fire in Jibla, police said.
Labels: Iraqi Army base, Iraqi Islamic Party, Jibla, Mosul, Omar al-Jubouri, suicide truck bomber, Sunni mosques
Monday, March 19, 2007
Iraqi Army base in Fallujah attacked
Security, Insurgency
(VOI) - An Iraqi army base was fully destroyed on Sunday morning when a truck crammed with explosives detonated in eastern Falluja, leaving an unidentified number of casualties, a police source said. "A truck crammed with explosives detonated this morning near the Iraqi army base at al-Salam hotel, eastern Falluja, leading to wide scale destruction of the base and leaving an unidentified number of casualties among the base personnel," the source told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
He added, "the explosive-laden truck was detonated by a remote control device at 9:00 am. "Iraqi security forces cordoned off the scene while reinforcements were sent to the location, the source added. The security forces fired over head to secure the operation to rush the wounded to nearby bases for treatment, he said.
Labels: Fallujah, Iraqi Army base, VBIED
