Thursday, February 03, 2005

Post-election attacks continue

Three Iraqi soldiers were killed and three wounded in a bomb attack on Thursday morning in Yathrib, 75km north of Baghdad.

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Elsewhere, a soldier and a woman were killed in a bomb blast targeting an army convoy at Shorgat, 300km north of Baghdad, a police officer said, explaining that the woman was driving behind the convoy.

And in a rare case of civilians fighting back, villagers killed five fighters who attacked them for taking part in the elections, police said on Thursday.
  Aljazeera article

There's a talking point for Washington.
Earlier, two Iraqi employees of a US military base were shot dead and four of his colleagues wounded while on their way to work in Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, a medical source said.

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Also on Thursday, an Iraqi soldier was killed [...] in Baghdad

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the governor of Anbar province [ed: where Falluja is located] [...] escaped assassination [...] when a roadside bomb exploded near his car in Ramadi

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anti-US fighters dragged Iraqi soldiers off a bus near Kirkuk and shot 12 of them dead in the bloodiest attack on security forces since last weekend's election.

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an unknown number of US soldiers were killed and wounded when a house used as a US military headquarters was destroyed in al-Qaim city in western Baghdad.v[...]Witnesses reported other US troops firing back, hitting several civilian bystanders.

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a mortar attack on a US position fell short and killed two civilians and wounded six in Tal Afar [...]

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On Wednesday two US marines were killed in action in Iraq's western province of Anbar [... ed: where Falluja is located]


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