19 people killed in attacks in Iraq; 6 vehicle bombs explode in Baghdad

BAGHDAD (CP) - Gunmen shot and killed five police officers at a checkpoint north of Baghdad on Monday, and attackers exploded six vehicle bombs in the capital, killing at least five people and wounding more than 40.

At least 19 people were killed across Iraq on Monday, a day after bloodshed claimed 18 lives, part of an increase in violence seen in recent days after a relative lull in attacks around the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections.

A suicide car bomber slammed into a police patrol in the capital, leaving three dead, officials said, and a suicide motorcycle bomber rammed into a Shiite funeral ceremony, killing at least two and wounding 26, said Maj. Falah Mohamadawi of the Interior Ministry.

Four other car bombs killed at least two people and wounded 15, officials said.

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http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=700d8a9d-790f-446f-9b60-4eccc107c225&k=38745

helped get everyone to calm down. :sarcasm:

in Iran or Syria. :sarcasm:

... Hope you fully appreciate what your (alleged) devout follower, George W. Bush, has wrought.

desperately needs the fools who don't know any better to think that things are going great since the election, regardless of the fact that it is now governed by a Shi'ite controled Islamic theocracy.

Here are some links, I don't see it.

Top News
<http://staging.hosted.ap.org/dynamic/fronts/HOME?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME>

Raw News (Latest News)

<http://staging.hosted.ap.org/dynamic/fronts/RAW?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME>

Instead, they have in their "World" section what looks like Pentagon Propaganda a story from yesterday about how much the security in Mosul has improved:

<http://staging.hosted.ap.org/dynamic/fronts/WORLD?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME>

<http://staging.hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ_MOSULS_STORY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2005-12-25-11-38-57>

And yet AFP has it with pictures: <http://www.afp.com/english/news/stories/051226172802.xbiuwqmz.html>

And so does Reuters: <http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=10690007§ion=news[br />
The AP really sucks.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/wireStory?id=1442845&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312


A police vehicle, center, sits amidst other destroyed cars at the site of a car bomb explosion in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday Dec. 26, 2005. Insurgents killed at least 10 people in attacks around Iraq on Monday, including five police officers killed at a checkpoint. Attackers exploded five car bombs around Baghdad but caused relatively few casualties. (AP Photo/Khalid |Mohammed)

excerpt:

Gunmen in Baghdad killed a civilian who was driving his two children to school, a hospital official said. A professor was shot and killed by insurgents in western Baghdad, police said.

Bloodshed claimed at least 18 lives across Iraq on Sunday, including two U.S. and five Iraqi soldiers killed by bombings in Baghdad. The attacks are part of an increase in violence seen in recent days after a relative lull in attacks around the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections.

Iraq's electoral commission was expected Monday to announce the results from balloting of Iraqis living overseas.

Partial results already released from voting in Iraq showed that the United Iraqi Alliance, a religious Shiite coalition, with a large lead.

Those results have been attacked by Sunni Arab and secular Shiite parties, which charge the election was tainted by fraud and other irregularities.

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These things tend to go on for five, six, eight, 10, 12 years...

:sarcasm: