Iraqi government official assassinated.

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Iraqi government official assassinated.
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Sun, 06-13-2004 - 1:25pm
Car bomb kills 12 Iraqis.

A car bomb near a U.S. military installation killed 12 Iraqis -- eight civilians and four police officers -- and wounded 13 others in southeastern Baghdad, according to a coalition news release.


Also Sunday, Iraqi cultural affairs attaché Kamal al-Jarah was assassinated outside his Baghdad home.


Three prominent Kirkuk residents were killed in targeted attacks in the northern Iraq city Saturday night: a well-known Kurdish cleric, a district mayor who also served as a police officer and the father of Kirkuk's police chief.


Also, one civilian was killed and seven police were wounded in early Sunday clashes in Kirkuk.


The Baghdad car bomb exploded around 9:15 a.m. (1:15 a.m. ET) near Camp Curvo, a U.S. forward operating base in the southeastern part of the city, according to Lt. Col. James Hutton, who offered no other details.


Brig. Gen. Jamal Abdullah of the Iraqi police said it was a suicide attack targeting an Iraqi police vehicle in Baghdad's Rustumia district.


The blast destroyed the police vehicle and two other nearby cars, Abdullah said.


And a rocket struck the Coalition Provisional Authority's main office in Baghdad -- known as "the palace" -- Sunday morning, according to sources inside the Green Zone, where the U.S.-led coalition is headquartered.


A senior military official said no one was hurt in the attack.


Members of Iraq's government have become targets for insurgents who see them as collaborating with the U.S.-led coalition.


Saturday morning, Bassam Salih Kubba, one of Iraq's four deputy foreign ministers, was killed as he was leaving his house when a car carrying several assailants drove by and fired shots into his car.


Assailants also opened fire on Iraq's deputy health minister, Ammar al-Saffar, Wednesday morning as he left his home for work. He escaped unharmed.


Last month, a convoy carrying Dr. Salama al-Khafaji, a female member of the Iraqi Governing Council, was ambushed. Four people in the convoy were killed, but the council member survived the assassination attempt.


In mid-May, a suicide bomber killed Izzedine Salim, who was just two weeks into his monthlong term as the council's president. Six others were killed in the blast outside the Green Zone.


The Governing Council dissolved itself to make way for the interim government.


On June 30, the coalition will transfer sovereignty to the interim leadership.


Bodies of three hostages found

A Lebanese national and two Iraqi co-workers who had been taken hostage earlier in the week were found shot to death on Saturday, a Lebanese diplomat said.


Hassan Hijazi, charge d'affaires of the Lebanese Embassy in Baghdad, said Lebanese national Hussein Olayyan and two Iraqis were working for a Lebanese telecommunications company. Their bodies were found on the road near Ramadi.


Another Lebanese, a businessman named Roger al-Hadad, was kidnapped a few weeks ago and released a few days later. Lebanese businessman Habib Sammour, who owns a small shop in Baghdad, disappeared about a month ago.


Meanwhile, seven Turkish civilian contractors held in Iraq have been released, their employer told CNN Turk on Saturday.


Serdar Adali of Serka Ltd. did not have any other details.


Video released this week showed members of an obscure militant group holding Turkish workers and issuing anti-coalition messages.


The video, obtained by Associated Press Television and released Thursday, showed the four kneeling in front of the masked, armed militants. The hostages were holding passports.


A video broadcast Tuesday showed three other Turks surrounded at gunpoint by militants.


More.............. http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/06/13/iraq.main/index.html

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Mon, 06-14-2004 - 10:07am

More carnage. BBC news correspondent interviewed a Dr. there, he said there were many serious injuries, burns & lost limbs.


Two Britons are killed in Iraq suicide bomb attack.



http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=675562004


TWO Britons were among 13 people killed when a suicide car bomber blew himself up on a busy Baghdad street during rush-hour today.

The explosion comes a day after a suicide car bomber killed at least seven Iraqis outside a US base in the city, the latest in a spate of such attacks.

Today’s incident partly demolished a nearby building in Tahrir Square and was aimed at a convoy of foreign contract workers who were driving past in civilian cars, police said.

A Foreign Office spokeswoman confirmed that two of the dead were British, but declined to give further details until their families were notified.

She also said it was impossible to rule out the possibility of further British casualties.

Iraqi prime minister Iyad Allawi said five foreigners making critical repairs to Iraq’s power generating sector were among those killed in the bombing at Tahrir Square on the eastern end of the Jumhuria Bridge, which crosses the River Tigris.

Three other foreigners had been seriously injured, along with "a number" of Iraqis killed and injured, he said.

A second car bombing occurred near the town of Salman Pak south-east of Baghdad, killing four and injuring four, police said.

When the Baghdad bomb exploded, locals tried to pull people from the rubble of the damaged building, which had its front torn off.

Dozens of people gathered around two of the vehicles damaged in the blast, hammering on them, waving debris and jumping on their roofs, chanting: "America is the enemy of God".

The crowd set the vehicles ablaze, sending thick black smoke into the sky. Some witnesses said they saw foreign casualties being pulled from the vehicles after the blast.

Witnesses said three civilian sport utility vehicles - the kind favoured by Western contractors - passed by. All three of the SUVs were damaged and one could be seen burning, and a two-story house was heavily damaged.

Police said at least eight vehicles had been destroyed in the blast.

At least one charred body was removed from the rubble, along with an elderly man dazed and still dressed in his blood-soaked nightclothes.

A group of about 20 young men danced around a charred body. American soldiers hauled down one Iraqi man and began beating him with sticks.

Scattered around one of the damaged SUVs were manuals that appeared to be for energy turbines.
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Mon, 06-14-2004 - 11:01am

I wonder if anyone who had anything to do with the US will survive...even after we've left...

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Thu, 06-17-2004 - 9:50am
Car bomb at recruitment center kills 35.
Pentagon: Al-Zarqawi may be in Fallujah.

At least 35 people were killed and some 138 others were wounded Thursday morning, according to Iraq's Health Ministry, when an apparent suicide car bomber targeted an Iraqi army recruitment center in Baghdad.


Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi visited the scene of the blast. "The Iraqi people are going to prevail," he said.


"This is an escalation that we have been expecting," Allawi said. "The government of Iraq is determined to confront the enemies."


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http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/06/17/iraq.main/index.html

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