Roadside bomb kills seven in Samarra - Iraq police

Source: Reuters

Roadside bomb kills seven in Samarra - Iraq police
27 Jun 2007 09:29:10 GMT

SAMARRA, Iraq, June 27 (Reuters) - A roadside bomb
killed seven people including five police commandos in
central Samarra on Wednesday, Iraqi police said, and two
more civilians were killed in the aftermath of the blast
when security forces opened fire.

Police Captain Ali Mohammed Ali said the attack targeted
the police patrol. He said two policemen had been wounded
in the blast and two civilians had been hurt by the
subsequent police shooting.

The blast in Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad,
comes despite heightened security in that city after
suspected al Qaeda militants blew up the twin minarets of
a Shi'ite mosque there earlier this month.


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At least three killed by Baghdad car bomb: witness

45 minutes ago

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb killed at least three people on
Wednesday in an attack on police vehicles near a busy market
in northern Baghdad, a witness said.

Police said there had been an explosion in the Suleikh district,
adding 10 people had been wounded. The witness told Reuters
he had seen at least three badly burned bodies and two police
vehicles ablaze.

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Source: Reuters

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, June 27
27 Jun 2007 05:15:44 GMT

June 27 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq
at 0515 GMT on Wednesday:

BAGHDAD - The bodies of 21 people were found in Baghdad on
Tuesday. Most of victims were found in the western Karkh side
of the Tigris river, police said.

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Source: Reuters

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, June 27
27 Jun 2007 17:28:31 GMT
Source: Reuters

June 27 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq
at 1700 GMT on Wednesday:

* denotes new or updated item.

* BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed seven people and wounded 14
in the Shi'ite district of Kadhimiya in Baghdad, police said.

* BAGHDAD - Police found the bodies of 21 people in Baghdad
on Wednesday. Most had been shot.

KIRKUK - Four Iraqi policemen were killed in an ambush near
the oil city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad,
when gunmen opened fire on their vehicles, police said.

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A merchant in Bagdad sends his servant to the marketplace for provisions. Shortly, the servant comes home white and trembling and tells him that in the marketplace he was jostled by a woman, whom he recognized as Death, and she made a threatening gesture.

Borrowing the merchant's horse, he flees at top speed to Samarra, a distance of about 75 miles (125 km), where he believes Death will not find him.

The merchant then goes to the marketplace and finds Death, and asks why she made the threatening gesture. She replies, "That was not a threatening gesture, it was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra."

(Old story retold by W. Somerset Maugham in 1933)

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Insurgents killed at least 17 people in bombings and shootings in Iraq on Wednesday, including nine policemen in attacks in northern Samarra town and near Kirkuk, security officials said.

The predominantly Sunni town of Samarra was shaken by a roadside bomb which targetted a police patrol, killing five police officers and two civilians, police Captain Alaa al-Samarrai said.

The attack, which wounded another two people including a policeman, took place in a neighbourhood near the revered Shiite shrine of Al-Askari.

The shrine was bombed earlier this month and since then the town has seen several other attacks.

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Source: Associated Press

Bombing near Shiite shrine kills 14

By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer
19 minutes ago

BAGHDAD - America's No. 2 diplomat in Iraq predicted progress
by fall on bringing together Iraq's feuding factions as violence
claimed more lives Wednesday, including 14 people killed in a
late night car bombing near a Shiite shrine in the capital.
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In all, at least 60 Iraqis were killed or found dead across the
country, most of them in the Baghdad area, according to police
reports. Also Wednesday, one American soldier was killed and
four were wounded in a roadside bombing in east Baghdad, the
U.S. command said.

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The article continues with efforts at political progress and
reports of other violence including a shelling of the Green Zone.