The effects of Bush's illegal war: liberating Iraqis from life by the dozens each day (still)

* BAQUBA - A suicide bomber posing as a shepherd killed four policemen and two civilians and wounded 13 others, including six policemen, in an attack on the Diyala province police headquarters in the city of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. Three women were killed in random gunfire which broke out after the blast.

* MOSUL - The bodies of four people with gunshot wounds were found dumped in the west of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

* MOSUL - A car bomb wounded four civilians in Mosul, police said.

* BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting a U.S. convoy wounded three civilians in the Karrada district of central Baghdad, police said.

* HAWIJA - Gunmen killed a policeman in a drive-by shooting in the town of Hawija, 70 km (45 miles) southwest of Baghdad, police said.

* RAMADI - The civilian driver of a vehicle was killed when U.S. troops opened fire on his vehicle as it sped towards a checkpoint in the city of Ramadi, 110 km (70 miles) west of Baghdad, on Sunday, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. soldiers opened fire on a minibus which failed to stop at a roadblock in the Shaab district of northern Baghdad, killing two people and wounding four, the U.S. military said. A police source said the bus was carrying finance ministry employees. Another police source said four people were killed, including three women.

BAIJI - U.S. soldiers killed two men and a child when they opened fire on a vehicle which approached a roadblock at high speed near Baiji, 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad on Monday, the U.S. military said. The incident happened during raids targeting al Qaeda in which two suspected insurgents were also killed.

TAJI - Iraqi soldiers arrested four suspected insurgents, two of them dressed as a bride and groom, during what they said was a fake wedding procession in Taji, 20 km (9 miles) north of Baghdad, the Defence Ministry said. They did not say when the arrests took place.

TIKRIT - The bodies of four men were found shot near the city of Tikrit, 170 km (105 miles) north of Baghdad, a Salahuddin province official said. The men were in police custody but armed tribal members stopped a police convoy on Monday and seized them.

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Monday 26 November: 15 dead

Baghdad: 4 bodies.
Mosul: roadside bomb kills civilian; 3 bodies.
Kut: gunmen kill policeman.
Kanan: al-Qaeda attack kills civilian.
Hilla: gunmen kill man in car.
Baiji: US forces open fire on vehicle, kill 2 men and child inside it.

Sunday 25 November: 50 dead

Baghdad: car bombs, roadside bombs kill 18 in Bab al-Muatham, Waziriya, Rostomiya, Rusafa; gunmen kill 11 members of journalist's family (his sisters, their husbands and 7 children) opposing US occupation of Iraq and the al-Maliki government; 5 bodies.
Baquba: gunmen open fire on car, kill 3 members of the same family.
Basra: gunmen kill civilian; 3 bodies.
Mandali: gunmen shoot 2 borthers.
Ramadi: US forces open fire on car, kill man travelling with his wife and children.
Saturday 24 November: 17 dead
Baghdad: 4 bodies.
Falluja: 2 bodies.
Mosul: roadside bomb kills policeman; 2 bodies -a university student and her mother.
Samarra: car bomb kills 3 policemen.
Hilla: 2 worshippers shot dead outisde mosque.
Tuz Khurmato: body found.
Wajihia: body found.

Friday 23 November: 74 dead

Baghdad: bomb in pet market kills 15; 6 bodies.
Mosul: car bombs hits police patrols, kill 21; 7 bodies.
Jalawla: school guard and wife beheaded in front of their children by relatives critical of their 'western' ways.
Kut: 2 killed in separate attacks; 8 bodies.
Dhuluiya: 3 bodies.
Najaf: body of 17-year-old is found.

Thursday 22 November: 48 dead

Baghdad: 4 bodies.
Hawr Rijab: up to 18 'Awakening' Council guards reported killed in attack by gunmen.
Baquba: 3 village residents killed in attacks by gunmen on two villages.
Abu Saida: 8 residents killed during clashes with militants.
Mosul: car bomb kills 2; roadside bomb kills policeman; decapitated body of University lecturer from Tikrit is found.
Kirkuk: member of municipal council is shot dead; decapitated body found.
Basra: 2 shot dead.

Wednesday 21 November: 67 dead

Baghdad: gunmen kill interior ministry secretary; 9 bodies found, 6 in mass grave in back garden in Saidiya.
Ramadi: suicide car bomb kills 6; mass grave is found, containing 40 bodies.
Hawija: US forces raid house, kill 4 peasants from the same family.
Baquba: 3 bodies.
Mosul: 2 bodies.

Tuesday 20 November: 31 dead

Baghdad: 6 killed in separate incidents, Mansour, Atifiya, Bayaa; 6 bodies.
Zighania: gunmen attack home, kill 3 brothers.
Dhuluiya: 3 bodies.
Basra: 4 bodies.

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2 soldiers killed in northern Iraq

The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Nov 27, 2007

BAGHDAD — Two U.S. soldiers were fatally injured in a blast while conducting combat operations Tuesday in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said.

Two other soldiers were wounded in the explosion in Salaheddin province, a mostly Sunni area where al-Qaida and other insurgent groups remain active.

No further details were released.