Iraqi police, civilians killed in attacks

[maddezmom]

Source: CNN


BAGHDAD (CNN) -- Attacks in Baghdad and Baquba on Monday left 12 Iraqi civilians and police dead and 24 wounded, according to police and government officials.

A mortar attack on the Za'afaraniya neighborhood in southeastern Baghdad killed at least three people and wounded nine, an Interior Ministry official said.

Around 1 p.m. (5 a.m. ET), a parked car bomb detonated along Palestine Street in eastern Baghdad, killing three people and wounding seven, the official said.

One police officer was among the dead, and three police officers were among the wounded.



Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/14/monday/index.html?section=cnn_latest

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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, May 14
* BAGHDAD - The bodies of 18 people were found around Baghdad in the past 24 hours, police said.

* NEAR TIKRIT - Gunmen abducted nine people working for the Baiji oil refinery near Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

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BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed one person and wounded 13, including four policemen, in Zaafaraniya district of southern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb in a parking lot killed one person and wounded four others in the central Karrada district of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed one person and wounded three others in Palestine Street in northeastern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - The bodies of 22 people were found in different districts of Baghdad on Sunday, police said.

BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomber killed two Iraqi soldiers and wounded four others at a major intersection in western Baghdad, police said.

more:http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L14614246.htm

[whistle]

1. More evidence of how well Bush's "surge" escalation is working

....We really need to Impeach Bush/Cheney now before more American lives are wasted on this corrupt war.

[Eugene]

2. Sadrist lawmakers, U.S. soldiers in Green Zone standoff

Source: Associated Press

Sadrist lawmakers, U.S. soldiers in Green Zone standoff

The Associated Press
Published: May 14, 2007

BAGHDAD: U.S. soldiers on Monday stopped five lawmakers loyal
to anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as they were
walking to a parking lot inside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone,
one of the lawmakers said.

An Associated Press reporter witnessed the encounter.

He said the soldiers drove up in an SUV marked "police" and
stopped the lawmakers, who included two women, just outside
the building where they attended a session of the 275-seat
parliament.

The soldiers asked the three male lawmakers to hand over the
passes giving them access to the Green Zone, home to Iraq's
parliament as well as its government offices and the U.S. and
British embassies.

The lawmakers obliged, but an argument broke out.

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Read more: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/14/africa/ME-GEN-Iraq-Sadrist-Lawmakers.php