Main Security Developments in Irak April 27th 2007 Translated and Summarised From Arabic
Eight checkpoints have been set up on the the borders with Syria and Turkey. The checkpoints are spaced along the border from Beshabour near the Syrian border in the west to Zakho near the Turkish border to the far north. — Readers will recall that two weeks ago, Turkish authorities extradited 737 Iraqis to the Kurdish security “authorities” after arresting them during a campaign of raids on hotels and offices in different parts in Turkey.
The teenage suicide bomber who attacked Brigadier Hamed Gazaa chief of Hit police department’s home in al-Zewiya west of Hit, killed at least 15 and wounded at least 25. Brigadier Gazza survived the explosion. There have been repeated calls broadcast from the mosques in Hit for blood donors to go to the local hospital and clinics. The bomb was disguised in a car loaded with quantities of cement as camouflage.
Update: a curfew has been imposed.
Green zone government sources claim that five gunmen were detained by a joint force of green zone government army and police personnel near Khanaqin in Diyala governorate. The contiguous area is rugged consisiting of mountains and desert and there are some indications that some of more than 150 deatinees who were freed when a group of armed men stormed Badoush prison have taken refuge there. Khanaqin was the scene of a major bombing of Shi’ite devotees gathering for a religious ceremony.
A human rights activist was killed by a group of gunmen west of Kirkuk.
Three Marines in the U.S. invader army of were killed while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar governorate yesterday. Their deaths bring to 3,337 the number of American invaders killed since the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. 90 of those deaths are of American invaders who have been killed since the beginning of April. 81 of those deaths were killed in March 2007. Bringing the number of American invader deaths since the “surge” started to 171.
Professor Khaled Jaber Al-Dulaimi of the College of Engineering, University of Anbar, was killed by gunmen as he left his home 45 km east of Fallujah.
The demonstration held after Friday prayers in Al Amarah protesting the American plan to foster sectarianism in Irak by walling in areas of Baghdad passed off peacefully.
Three bodies have been recovered in Kirkuk a bomb in Zab (45 Kilomtres southwest of the city) injured one civilian.
A prisoner in the notorious prison camp run by the American invaders at Camp Bucca died as a result of an attack by another detainee according to the American invaders.
A civilian was killed by a bomb targeting a green zone government police patrol that exploded near one of the intersections of al-Saylo street in southeastern Mosul.
Mohammed Ibn Laith
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