Chlorine truck bomb in Iraq makes 11 people sick

Source: Reuters

Chlorine truck bomb in Iraq makes 11 people sick
20 May 2007 08:24:02 GMT

RAMADI, Iraq, May 20 (Reuters) - A truck bomb laden with chlorine
gas exploded before it rammed into a police checkpoint near the Iraqi
city of Ramadi on Sunday, making 11 people sick, a local official said.

Faleh al-Dulaimi, a spokesman for an association of local tribes in
western Anbar province fighting al Qaeda militants, said police opened
fire on the truck before it ran into the checkpoint in the town of
Zangoura, north of Ramadi.

The explosion released the gas, Dulaimi said.

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Source: Reuters

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, May 20
20 May 2007 07:52:23 GMT

May 20 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 0745 GMT
on Sunday:

NEAR KUT - Police retrieved the bodies of five people, including one that
was decapitated, from the Tigris River near the city of Kut, 170 km (100
miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said.

BASRA - Two roadside bombs exploded near a British patrol in two different
districts in northern Basra, wounding a number of British forces, the British
military said, adding their wounds were not life-threatening. Four people
were detained in the operation.

BAGHDAD - The bodies of 20 people were found shot in different districts
of Baghdad on Saturday, police said.

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Mass grave found in Mahmoudiya , armed clashes erupt in Basra

Baghdad- A mass grave has been discovered in a house near a Sunni mosque in the southern Iraqi city of Mahmoudiya, the Sunni Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS) said Sunday. The grave was discovered Friday by joint US-Iraqi forces at the al-Sadeq al-Amin mosque in Mahmoudiya, 30 kilometres south of Baghdad. The mosque and its imam's house had been seized a few months ago by a militia linked to the Shiite Mahdi army, an affiliate of the Shiite Sadr movement led by cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

In a statement published online the AMS accused the Mahdi army of "using the mosque for torturing the innocent and killing them after kidnapping them."

The association called on international human rights organizations "to exert pressure (on Iraqi authorities) to guarantee an independent and honest investigation into this crime by neutral entities."

Led by Sunni cleric Harith al-Dhari, the Association of Muslim Scholars is the highest Sunni authority in Iraq. It was formed by a group of Iraqi Sunni clerics April 14, 2003 - four days after Saddam Hussein's regime was overthrown by the US-led invasion.



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2 Iraqi police die in suicide bombing By RAVI NESSMAN, Associated Press Writer
15 minutes ago



BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber exploded a tanker truck near a police checkpoint outside a market west of Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least two police officers and injuring nine others, police said.

The attack occurred about 10 a.m. in a town just outside of the turbulent city of Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, police said.

Police grew suspicious of the truck as it approached the checkpoint and opened fire when it was still 200 meters away, but the bomber still managed to detonate the explosives, police said. Police said they suspected chlorine gas was used in the attack. The U.S. military said it had no reports that chlorine was used in the bomb.

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Iraqi activist assassinated


BAGHDAD, May 20 A leading member of the Iraqi National Accord has been assassinated, it was reported Sunday.

Hadi Farhan Al-Rabe'ei was killed Friday in Iraq, said former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, who leads the Accord.

The statement from Allawi did not say where in Iraq Al-Rabe'ei was killed, reported Kuna, the Kuwait news agency.

The Accord statement condemned "the senseless assassination" of Al-Rabe ' ei "who was among the first to oppose (Saddam Hussein's) dictatorship and was also a good example of sacrifice to establish a unified democratic Iraq." The Accord was established in 1990 to advance a democratic pluralistic regime, Alalam TV said.

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