Other Significant Security Incidents Irak Summarised and Translated From Arabic April 28th 2007
This is a very shortened list of other incidents in Irak today:
Red Crescent Workers Update:
Gunmen in a minibus attacked a minivan this morning on themain Sayida to Bayaa road in al-Bayaa neighbourhood five civilians on board the bus were killed a sixth was wounded. (Gor: location veriified this earlier story (and Annas) - Hassan)
Update: to Maryam’s posting 4 Red Crescent Workers Killed In Baghdad Attack posted earlier today.
Hassan Abu Omar
Further Update
They were on their way to Damascas to coordinate some work and despeerately needed refugee supplies with the Syrian Red Crescent
Maryam
Other Significant Security Incidents In Irak April 28th 2007
Two civilians were wounded by the car bomb close to a mosque in the Cairo area (north Baghdad) that was targeting a green zone government patrol no other casualties.
The bombing of day labourers looking for cleaning work as they gathered at a meeting point in al-Zafaraniyah (southern Baghdad) killed one civilian was killed and wounded eight others. The toll is expected to rise.
A mortar round landed on a residential area in al-Risala neighborhood, (southwestern Baghdad) killing three civilians and wounding 10 more amongst them two children. [Photo uploaded to here]. A number of homes were also destroyed.
The bomb that went off this afternoon in Bab al-Murad market in front of Imam Mousa al-Kadhim’s shrine in Kadhimiya, killed one civilian and wounded three others. (This is a “heavily guarded” area of the city because of the shrine (markfromireland)) (Eyewitness report verieifed now from 3 sources: Suicide bomber was the cause. (Mohammed Ibn Laith))
The American invaders announced that 9 of their American invader troops have been killed and 3 wounded. Of the 3346 American invaders killed since the invasion led by the United States in March in March 2003, 99 were killed since the beginning of the month of April until today. (Mohammed Ibn Laith)
An American invader mechanised patrol has been bombed near the Unity bridge, Fallujah, a green zone government soldier was killed by a sniper in Al-Mutasim.
Patrols of the U.S. invader army went through Fallujah this afternoon putting up poster on the walls of buildings, residential houses, shops and markets inviting Fallujah residents to volunteer for the green zone government ”army.” There have been repeated attacks including suicide bomber attacks in Fallujah on the “volunteer centers” which have resulted in the deaths of many people. The American invader base in Saqlawiyah village north of the city was subjected to its usual barrage of mortar fire.
12 bodies have been found in Baqubah. Four bodies were found in al-Tahrir neighbourhood, southern Baqubah, four others near Ezzat mosque in the northeastern part of the city, four other bodies were found in separate unspecified areas of the city.
At least three resistance fighters were killed and eight green zone government policemen were wounded in eight in northern Baqubah this morning.
A failed assasination attempt in Baqubah on a green zone government army officer left him seriously wound and his mother and son dead.
the fighting between American invaders and gunmen resisting the American invasion of Irak in al Wahdah in Diwaniyah the capital of Ad Diwaniyah governorate killed one civilian and wounded several others as they were caught in the crossfire. (Sadrain fighters have so far avoided any confrontations. Saba Ali) Bombing and heavy air activity has been reported.
Students in Karbala university are demanding the reomoval of the university president. (Mohammed Ibn Laith) The students are protesting the brutal behaviour of the “security” service run by the University president and his inefficiency in running the institution. Students are regularly attacked by the “security” service. Who they say contain terrorist elements, they say that the situation is becoming disastrous . The business faculty students are a particular target for obvious reasons.(markfromireland)
The bombing of a car on the main road 35 kilometres west of Kirkuk seriously wounded the green zone government soldier driving it. The Katyusha attacks in Kirkuk caused material damage only. The kidnapped students were freed.
In Mosul Abdullah Wahsh a former senior military inteligence officer was shot dead near his home in south-east Mosul. Also in Mosul an armed group stormed a house in al-Hadbaaa neighbourhood in the northern part of the city late on Friday and opened fire at the family livingf there. Two family members were killed immediately and four others were wounded. The four wounded were taken to a nearby hospital where two of them died this morning. A gang of forgers who were in possession of seals, security authorisations, stamps, vehicle authorisations and the names of agents working for the green zone government in Ninawa g0vernorate were detained in a raid in Mosul.
A bomb exploded near a vehicle belonging to the green zone government army this morning in Muqdadiya killing one green zone government soldier and wounding another and setting on fire the APC. The Americans have bombed several villages in the area there are known to be civilian casualties but the number is as yet unknown.
In Salah ad Din governorate in Huwaija, Dalouiya, men armed with machine-guns attacked a civilian vehicle as three green zone government policemen boarded it to go to work killing first lieutenant Sadoun Mohammed and severely wounding two others. Sheikh Salah Dhiyab al-Juburi and his cousin were detained for four hours by American invaders in al-Jubur central Dalouiya no motive for the detention by the American invaders is apparent.
The commanding FPS officer for Baiji refinery and his chauffeur iwere abducted by an armed group this afternoon, on the road-between Baiji and Kirkuk their fate is “unknown”.
Our thanks to the team who working with us who put in a lot of work on a very distressing day.
Saba Ali Iihsan
Mohammed Ibn Laith
markfromireland
Note to site subscribers: Mail reports will be delayed until Sunday morning Baghdad time due to the volume of data. Detailed summary has been sent out at the normal time. There are further reports below this “continue” link
Maryam
See also this report from AP extracted in full for further confirmations as usual of course the headline is completely invader centric (Omar):
9 U.S. troops die in Iraq battle, blasts
By KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writer 3 minutes ago
A car bomb exploded Saturday in the Shiite holy city of Karbala as the streets were packed with people heading for evening prayers, killing at least 58 and wounding scores near some of the country’s most sacred shrines. Separately, the U.S. military announced the deaths of nine American troops, including three killed Saturday in a single roadside bombing outside Baghdad.
With black smoke clogging the skies above Karbala, angry crowds hurled stones at police and later stormed the provincial governor’s house, accusing authorities of failing to protect them from the unrelenting bombings usually blamed on Sunni insurgents. It was the second car bomb to strike the city’s central area in two weeks.
Near the blast site, survivors frantically searched for missing relatives. Iraqi television showed one man carrying the charred body of a small girl above his head as he ran down the street while ambulances rushed to retrieve the wounded and firefighters sprayed water at fires in the wreckage, leaving pools of bloody water.
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The blast took place about 7 p.m. in a crowded commercial area near the shrines of Imam Abbas and Imam Hussein, major Shiite saints.
Security officials said the car packed with explosives was parked near a cement barrier intended to keep traffic away from the shrines, which draw thousands of Shiite pilgrims from Iran and other countries.
That suggested the attack, which occurred two weeks after 47 people were killed and 224 were wounded in a car bombing in the same area on April 14, was aimed at killing as many Shiite worshippers as possible.
Salim Kazim, the head of the health department in Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, said 58 people were killed and 168 wounded. The figures were confirmed by Abdul-Al al-Yassiri, the head of Karbala’s provincial council.
“I did not expect this explosion because I thought the place was well protected by the police,” said Qassim Hassan, a clothing merchant who was injured by the blast. “I demand a trial for the people in charge of the security in Karbala.”
Hassan, who spoke to a reporter from his hospital bed, said his brother and a cousin were still missing.
“I regret that I voted for those traitors who only care about their posts, not the people who voted for them,” he said.
The U.S. military has warned that such bombings were intended to provoke retaliatory violence by Shiite militias, whose members have largely complied with political pressure to avoid confrontations with Americans during the U.S. troop buildup.
The radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr launched a strong attack earlier Saturday on President Bush, calling him the “greatest evil” for refusing to withdraw American troops from Iraq.
Al-Sadr’s statement was read during a parliament session by his cousin, Liqaa al-Yassin, after Congress ordered U.S. troops to begin leaving Iraq by Oct. 1. Bush pledged to veto the measure and neither the House nor the Senate had enough votes to override him.
“Here are the Democrats calling you to withdraw or even set a timetable and you are not responding,” al-Sadr’s statement said. “It is not only them who are calling for this but also Republicans, to whom you belong.”
“If you are ignoring your friends and partners, then it is no wonder that you ignore the international and Iraqi points of view,” he added.
Al-Sadr led two armed uprisings against U.S. forces in 2004, and his Mahdi militia is believed responsible for much of Iraq’s sectarian killing. The U.S. military says he has fled to Iran, although his followers insist he is hiding in Iraq. Abdul-Al al-Yassiri, the head of the Karbala provincial council, said local authorities had raised fears that militants fleeing the Baghdad security crackdown were infiltrating their area.
“We have contacted the interior minister and asked them to supply us with equipment that can detect explosives,” he said.
Ali Mohammed, 31, who sells prayer beads in the area, said he heard the blast and felt himself hurled into the air.
“The next thing I knew I opened my eyes in the hospital with my legs and chest burned,” he said. “This is a disaster. What is the guilt of the children and women killed today by this terrorist attack?”
Crowds stormed the provincial government offices and the governor’s house, burning part of it along with three cars and scuffling with guards. Security forces detained several armed protesters, said Ghalib al-Daami, a provincial council member.
Saturday’s bombing was the deadliest attack in Iraq since April 18, when 127 people were killed in a car bombing near the Sadriyah market in Baghdad — one of four bombings that killed a total of 183 people in the bloodiest day since a U.S.-Iraq security operation began in the capital more than 10 weeks ago.
In all, at least 119 people were killed or found dead, including the bodies of 38 people killed execution-style — apparent victims of the so-called sectarian death squads mostly run by Shiite militias.
In Baghdad, a mortar attack killed two people and wounded seven in the Sunni neighborhood of Azamiyah, where the U.S. military recently announced it was building a three-mile long, 12-foot high concrete wall despite protests from residents and Sunni politicians that they were being isolated.
The U.S. military also said Saturday that a suicide truck bomber attacked the home of a city police chief the day before in the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Anbar province, killing nine Iraqi security forces and six civilians. Police chief Hamid Ibrahim al-Numrawi and his family escaped injury after Iraqi forces opened fire on the truck before it reached the concrete barrier outside the home in Hit, 85 miles west of Baghdad.
Source: Print Story: 9 U.S. troops die in Iraq battle, blasts on Yahoo! News
see also McLatch Report Below:
McClatchy Washington Bureau | 04/28/2007 | Roundup of violence in Iraq - 28 April 2007
By Laith Hammoudi
The daily Iraq violence report is compiled by McClatchy Newspapers Special Correspondent Laith Hammoudi in Baghdad from police, military and medical reports. This is not a comprehensive list of all violence in Iraq, much of which goes unreported. It’s posted without editing as transmitted to McClatchy’s Washington Bureau.
Baghdad
- A civilian cleaning worker was killed and eight of his colleagues were injured in an IED explosion targeted them in Zafaraniyah neighborhood in southeast Baghdad at 6:30 a.m.
- An American convoy was targeted by an IED explosion on the airport street west Baghdad at 8:30 a.m. The U.S. troops closed the area; no casualties reported yet.
- Five employees working for the Iraq Red Crescent were killed and another employee was injured when their car was attacked in Saidiyah neighborhood in south Baghdad at 9:00 a.m. The employees, who were on their way to Syria, were attacked by gunmen driving a minibus.
- Three civilians were killed and 10 others injured when a mortar shell hit Al Risalah neighborhood in southeast Baghdad at noon.
- A civilian was killed and three others were injured when an IED targeting them exploded on Bab Al Morad street in Kadhimiyah neighborhood in northwest Baghdad at 1:15 p.m.
- Two civilians were injured in an IED explosion near Al Neda’a mosque in Wazirirah neighborhood in east Baghdad at 2:00 p.m.
- Two civilians were injured in a parked car bomb explosion in Shoala in west Baghdad at 4:30 p.m.
- Three civilians were wounded when an IED exploded near Al Shurta tunnel in southwest Baghdad at 5:30 p.m.
- 17 unidentified bodies were found in Baghdad today. 16 were found in Karkh, in the western part of Baghdad, in the following neighborhoods: six bodies in Al Amil, two bodies in Saidiyah, two bodies in Hurriyah, two bodies in Bayaa, two bodies in Doura, one body in Mahmoudiyah, one body in Washshash. One body was found in Sadr City in the eastern part of Baghdad,
Diyala Province
- A security source with the Muqdadiyah police said that a police patrol had found an anonymous body on the outskirts of town Friday evening. The body had many gunshots, the source said.
- A source in the Iraqi army said that an Iraqi soldier was killed and another injured when an IED exploded targeting their patrol in Al Mijadad area, a part of Khalis town, Friday.
- A source with the Diyala police said seven policemen were wounded in clashes Friday evening and the first hours of Saturday between policemen and gunmen in Al Ameen area in north Baquba.
- A security source in Muqdadiyah said a civilian was injured in the Wajihiyah section of Muqdadiyah early Saturday morning. The source added that another policeman was injured in clashes that took place in Khaleel Basha area in north Baquba early Saturday.
- A source with the Baquba police said American forces killed a driver in downtown Baquba Friday evening. No more details were revealed.
- A medical source with Baquba public hospital said that ambulances and police patrols evacuated five unidentified bodies from one of the neighborhoods of Baquba early Saturday. Police said the victims had been shot.
- Police patrols of Abbara area, 10 kilometers north of Baquba, said they found the bodies of four farmers who were kidnapped Thursday.
- The commander of the Khalis town police directorate said an Iraq army soldier was killed and three others wounded when a suicide car bomb targeted an Iraqi army checkpoint in Um Al Nakhal area, a part of Khalis town, 10 kilometers north of Baquba.
- Police patrols in Baquba found eight bodies in different parts of the city Saturday evening. Four bodies were found in Baquba Al Jadida district west of Baquba. The bodies were handcuffed and blindfolded, with signs of heavy torture. Three bodies were found in Jorf Al Milih in north Baquba, and another body was found Al Tahreer neighborhood in south Baquba.
Salahuddin
- Police sources said that an Iraqi police officer was killed by gunmen in Dholoiyah district south of Tikrit early Saturday.
- According to Hawija town police sources, gunmen kidnapped three individuals, including a member of the Hawija judiciary committee. The incident happened near Hawija, 45 kilometers west of Tikrit.
Kirkuk
- A source with the Kirkuk police said an Iraqi army soldier was injured when an IED targeting his car exploded on Kirkuk-Al Dibis motorway northwest of Kirkuk. The source said the targeted soldier was from the 5th Battalion of the 1st Brigade of the Iraqi army. He added that the soldier was moved to Kiwan military hospital in Kirkuk.
Karbala
- The spokesman of the Karbala health directorate, Saleem Kadhum, said that at least 57 citizens were killed and more than 147 others were injured in a parked car bomb explosion targeting the civilians near the intersection of Al Qibla street 200 meters away from the shrine of Imam Abbas in Karbala (90 kilometers south of Baghdad) at 7:10 p.m. Kadhum said that this number represents a primary casualties recording because it counts only the casualties that had been moved to the two main hospitals of the city. Kadhum expected the number to increase rapidly because of the serious injuries of many citizens. The explosion happened in a very crowded area where shopowners, policemen, Iraqi army soldiers and other civilians gather. The steer is one of the most crowded in Karbala, where many hotels cater to visitors of the two holy shrines in the city.
Source: McClatchy Washington Bureau | 04/28/2007 | Roundup of violence in Iraq - 28 April 2007
Indexed under: Al Anbar (Governorate), al-Isterbadi market (Kadhimiya), al-Kadhimiya hospital, Al-Qādisiyyah - Governorate, Bab al-Murad, Baghdad, Baghdad Hospitals, Baghdad Markets, Baqubah, Dalouiya, Disputed Areas, Diwaniyah, Diyala, Fallujah, Jaish al-Mahdi, Joint Postings, Karbala, Kirkuk, Kirkuk (At-Ta'mim) Governorate, Mahdi, Mahdi Army, Militia, Mosul, Ninawa (Governorate), Salah ad Din (Governorate)
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