Big truck bomb in Iraq's Kirkuk, casualties-police

Source: Reuters

Big truck bomb in Iraq's Kirkuk, casualties-police

KIRKUK, Iraq, April 2 (Reuters) - A big truck bomb exploded in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Monday, police said, adding there were dead and wounded.

Police said the blast, near a government office, echoed across the city. They had no other details. Insurgents have increasingly used truck bombs in attacks in recent months.

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/YAT225980.htm

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UPDATE:

Truck bomb in Iraq's Kirkuk kills 11 - police

KIRKUK, Iraq, April 2 (Reuters) - A suicide attacker driving a truck packed with explosives blew himself up in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Monday, killing up to 11 people and wounding 90, police said.

The attacker rammed his vehicle into the main gate of the police criminal investigation department and detonated the bomb, triggering a blast that echoed across the city.

Police Brigadier Sarhat Qadir said 11 people were killed, seven houses destroyed and 35 cars set ablaze. He said the toll was expected to rise.

Another police official, Brigadier Torhan Abdul-Rahman, said six people were killed and more than 100 people wounded.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL230256.htm

if this continues to deteriorate, we could have enough votes to over-ride a veto on withdrawal by the end of the year

We need that kind of switch. I know our Congresspeople are working on it.

:eyes:

Attack the police now so they can attack the softer targets later. Keep the police demoralized and understaffed and paranoid. The police make mistakes that get innocent people killed, and more people start to hate them and want to strike back.

Not to mention, in this attack they are destroying the ability of the police to go after organized militias, compile and process evidence, and perform forensic analysis.

This is simply terrible all round. Thank got that truck didn't have some chlorine or something in it.

I wonder how long until they start mixing tar or napalm with the truck bombs?

no doubt they've already thought of them, though.

You could apply the same logic to those lines of students trying to get through high-school metal detectors. "Moral panics" often times create more problems than they solve.

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BTW, if you want to read a book that will keep you up at nights, read "The Enemy Within" by Larry Bond

Source: Associated Press

Baghdad Car Bomb Kills 3, Wounds 10
Car Parked in Baghdad Garage Explodes, Killing at
Least 3 People and Wounding 10

By KIM GAMEL

BAGHDAD Apr 2, 2007 (AP)— A car parked in a garage exploded Monday in Baghdad,
killing at least three people and wounding 10, police said. The blast took place
about 10 a.m. near a governmental property registration agency in Baiyaa, an area
with a mixed population of Sunnis and Shiites in western Baghdad. Police said five
cars and nearby buildings also were damaged.

The area has been a frequent target of suspected Sunni insurgents who apparently
have stepped up their campaign of bombings in a bid to derail a 7-week-old U.S.-
Iraqi security plan.

-snip-

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2999929

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Article continues with events from Sunday.

Source: Reuters

Bodies of 19 kidnapped men found in Iraq-police
02 Apr 2007 07:50:09 GMT
Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, April 2 (Reuters) - The bodies of 19 civilians kidnapped by gunmen
at a fake checkpoint north of Baghdad were found on Monday, Iraqi police and
hospital sources said.

They said all had been shot in the head and chest in one of the biggest mass
kidnappings in months.

Gunmen kidnapped the civilians, men from a Shi'ite village near the city of
Baquba, after stopping cars at a fake checkpoint on Sunday. The bodies were
found not far from Baquba, which lies 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad.

Gunmen also kidnapped 14 policemen near Baquba, the provincial capital of
Diyala province, a month ago. They were later found dead. Diyala is home
to Shi'ites, Sunni Arabs and Kurds and has been the scene of relentless
bloodshed.


Link: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/YAT227745.htm

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Three women from the group were released according to this report:
Baghdad Car Bomb Kills 3, Wounds 10 (AP)

A suicide truck bomb killed 12 people and wounded 137 others in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Monday in the latest attack by insurgents using explosives-laden trucks.

Many of the victims were women and children at a nearby school, police said.

Insurgents have hit a string of northern Iraqi towns in the past 10 days in bombings that have killed hundreds of people. Officials have blamed the attacks on Sunni Islamist al Qaeda.

In other violence, the bodies of 19 men from a Shi'ite village kidnapped by gunmen at a fake checkpoint north of Baghdad were found on Monday, police said. All had been shot in the head in one of the biggest kidnappings in months.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L02224677.htm

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, April 2

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL257265.htm

Scattered violence all over Iraq.

You people are making it sound like you can't walk freely around Iraq, and that directly contradicts Senator Straight Talk, Maverick Johnny hisself. All these explosions and dead bodies are just trying to embarrass him, so cut it out, okay?

Source: CBS/AP

Baby, GI Among Iraq Truck Bomb Victims
Kirkuk Suicide Attack Kills At Least 15 Near School,
U.S. Troops Seen At Site

BAGHDAD, April 2, 2007

(CBS/AP) A suicide truck bomber, his deadly payload hidden under bags of flour,
crashed into a police station in a Kurdish neighborhood in the disputed city
of Kirkuk on Monday. At least 15 people were killed, including a newborn girl
and a U.S. soldier, and nearly 200 were wounded.

-snip-

Bombings elsewhere in Iraq killed at least 12 people and wounded more than 40,
and police found the bodies of at least 35 victims of sectarian killings. The 21
bodies discovered in Baqouba, about 50 miles north of the capital, were believed
to have been Shiite workers grabbed from three minibuses stopped at illegal Sunni
insurgent checkpoints near the violent city. Baghdad police said they found
14 corpses, most tortured and killed execution style; all were thought to be
victims of Shiite death squads.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/02/iraq/main2636118.shtml

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Source: Agence France-Presse

Schoolgirls massacred, Shiites executed in Iraq

by Ali Yussef
Mon Apr 2, 1:11 PM ET

BAGHDAD (AFP) - A truck bomber carrying food supplies killed eight Iraqi
schoolgirls and a baby in the northern oil city of Kirkuk on Monday as
suspected Sunni militants executed 21 Shiite workers north of Baghdad.

-snip-

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070402/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_070402164916

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Related: MNC-I unit attacked - MNF Iraq

2 billion dollars from the saudis to give up kirkuk?
:shrug: