Thursday, March 22, 2007
PUK office in Mosul attacked
Security, Politics
(Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed three and wounded 20 on Wednesday when he blew his truck up at the headquarters of a Kurdish party in the northern city of Mosul, police said. Witnesses said the bomber drove his truck into the headquarters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), led by the Kurdish leader Masoud Barazani, as Kurds were celebrating the spring festival of Nawruz.
Labels: Massoud Barzani, Mosul, PUK, VBIED
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
