Incidents In Irak May 16th 2007 Summarised From Arabic
The search for the captured American soldiers continues. The green zone came under mortar attack again today. (Western reports say that 10 shells landed and that 2 were killed and 10 wounded.)
The bomb that exploded near al-Ghazalani cemetery in al-Sheikh Omar industrial zone (central Baghdad,) killed one civilian dead and injured three. The wounded were taken to al-Kindi hospital. Four civilians were injured in a grenade attack by near Mustansiriyah University.
There have been violent clashes all day in Mosul, and all over Mosul. The city is now under curfew.
Also in Ninawa the bridge at Badush has been destroyed in a twin suicide bombing attack. [This is a serious attack. Badoush bridge 20 km west of Mosul connected Mosul, which is the governorate’s capital city to Tal Afar and Rabia.]
Still in Ninewa there has been yet another jail break five prisoners killed two policemen and managed to escape jail while being moved from jail to al-Tasfirat hospital this afternoon.
Again in Ninewa the Americans arrested a man in his 80’s during a search near Mosul. Kamal Abdul Baqi an 80 year old blind and handicapped retired teacher refused entry to his home of an American search party using dogs during a series of searches of his part of Mosul. The Americans arrested him. [Non-Muslim readers should note that dogs are considered to be unclean by Muslims.]
A mother and baby were shot in East Mosul the mother has died of her wounds the baby is seriously wounded.
In the southern governorate of Dhi Qar there are intensive efforts being made to halt thefighting in al-Nassiriyah between the Mahdi militia and the SIIC (SCIRI) dominated, green zone government forcess. So far the local hospital has received ten dead, including two policemen, and 45 wounded most of them civilians. Locals say the numbers are higher than this because families took their wounded to Basrah for treatment there. The context of this is that the local security forces are entirely dominated by SIIC and the accusation and detention of a Sadrist leader are political moves to try to prevent the Sadrists gaining control of the province. In retaliation for the detention of the Mahid milita leader the home of the emaergency squad was attacked with RPgs.
The Mahdi militia have siezed control of the police station and bridges at Shatrah and tightened their control of Al Gharraf.
There is a lenghty report on the fighting and the attempts to resolve it in English here. The Information in this posting is from here and various local reports.
In Diyala the toll from the bombing Abu Saida of market (Abu Saida is about 40 km north of Muqdadiya) suicide bombing is now known to be at least 32 civilians killed and 33 others wounded. (Later unverified reports give higher tolls.)
Basem Abdul Elelah al-Muaadedi an engineer who was a member of the Compensation and Reconstruction Committee was shot dead in al-Andalus (Central Fallujah) this afternoon. (The Compensation and Reconstruction Committee is American founded and run.) Violent confrontations erupted between gunmen and green zone government forces south of Fallujah this morning. The fighting started when a patrol was ambushed.
The bomb near Huwiyjah technical institute (70 Km southwest of Kirkuk) wounded one green zone government policeman. Ibrahim Abdallah Hassan and Anwar Abdullah Hammoud were both of them village representatives were shot dead today near Kirkuk
A child was killed and two other people were injured when a protest meeting in Basrah about the deteioration in the electricity supply was fired upon. According to the report witnesses said it is not clear who fired. (This is often code for it was the police who opened fire.)
The central court in Wasit has sentenced 6 people to death.
4000 refugee families in Karbala began receiving food and other essentials such as blankets in humanitarian aid today.
Indexed under: Badr Brigade, Baghdad, Baghdad Hospitals, Baqubah, Basrah, Bombings, Dhi Qar (Governorate), Disputed Areas, Diyala, Islam, Karbala, Kirkuk, Kirkuk (At-Ta'mim) Governorate, Mosul, Ninawa (Governorate), Poverty, Refugees, SIIC (Formerly SCIRI), Wasit
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