Security Incidents for 04/14/07

Photo: Iraqis gather at the site of a suicide car bomb in Karbala, 14 April 2007. A suicide car bomb killed 34 people near a revered Shiite shrine in Iraq's pilgrimage city of Karbala on Saturday, exactly two months after troops launched a security crackdown in Baghdad.(AFP/Mohammed Sawaf) [Later reports said 56 were killed. – dancewater]

Baghdad:

In Baghdad, police said a suicide car bomber detonated his device near a checkpoint at the southern Jadriyah bridge, killing 10 people, wounding 15 and burning several cars in the second major attack on a bridge in the capital in the past three days. A police source put the death toll in Kerbala, 110 km (70 miles) southwest of Baghdad, at 65. But Khaled al-Rubaie, media director of al-Husseini hospital in Kerbala, said 41 people had been killed and 128 wounded, many of them women and children.

Also Saturday, gunmen attacked the western Baghdad house of Adnan al-Dulaimi, head of the largest Sunni bloc in Iraq's parliament, police said. Al-Dulaimi was not at home at the time of the attack, and is believed to be in Jordan. Clashes erupted between his guards and the gunmen, lasting about half an hour. Five guards were wounded, police said.

A bomb planted in a garbage can missed a passing police patrol in Baghdad's southwestern Baya district Saturday, but injured three electricity workers who were working nearby, police said.

A roadside bomb wounded three people when it blew up in western Baghdad's Yarmouk district, police said.

Gunmen attacked the deputy industry minister's convoy and wounded three of his bodyguards in Baghdad's southwestern Jihad neighbourhood, police said. Deputy Minister Mohammed Abdullah was present but unhurt from the attack.

BAGHDAD - A group linked to al Qaeda said it abducted 20 Iraqi troops and policemen and demanded the release of all Sunni women held in Iraq's prisons, according to a Web statement.

BAGHDAD - Police found the bodies of 19 people in various parts of Baghdad in the past 24 hours, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen opened fire on a police patrol, killing one in southwestern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb exploded in a Baghdad district, killing one civilian and wounding two others, police said.

BAGHDAD - A mortar round killed one civilian and wounded another when it hit a building in southern Baghdad's mainly Sunni Saydiya district on Friday, an interior ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed one person and wounded four when it exploded in central Baghdad's Sheikh Omar neighbourhood, police said.

Baghdad- Iraqi security forces killed two gunmen and arrested 129 suspected militants in several areas in Baghdad, during the past 48 hours, under the Baghdad law-imposing plan, the Baghdad operations command said on Saturday.

Baghdad – Seventeen suspected gunmen, including a military leader from al-Qaeda Organization in Iraq, were arrested in several operations in Baghdad and Mosul, the U.S. army said on Saturday.

Baghdad – The Iraqi undersecretary of industry survived an assassination attempt in the neighborhood of al-Jihad, western Baghdad, Iraqi police sources said.

Baghdad – Eleven U.S. soldiers and two Iraqi interpreters were killed in military operations in Baghdad on Friday, the U.S. army said. [Not reported anywhere else. – dancewater]

UPDATE: This is a mistake. It was three US soldiers killed and eight injured, making a total of 11 casualties, not deaths.

Diyala Prv:

Three civilians were killed and three others wounded when an explosive charge blew up near their vehicles in northwestern Khalis district, Diala province, an Iraqi police source said. "The roadside bomb was planted by unidentified people on the road linking the village of al-Nai to the district of al-Khalis," the source, who preferred not to be named, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq

An Iraqi officer of the rank of Lt. colonel and three escorts were killed when an explosive device went off near the Diala police official's motorcade in Baaquba, an official security source said.

Six farmers were kidnapped by unidentified gunmen while entering the al-Muwaffaq agricultural company in western Khalis, Diala province, eyewitnesses said.

One civilian was killed and nine others wounded when a car rigged with explosives blew up near a Multi-National Force in Baaquba patrol, an Iraqi police source said

Karbala:

A suicide car bomber killed up to 50 people and wounded more than 70 at a crowded bus station in the Iraqi holy city of Kerbala on Saturday, police said.

Four civilians were killed and a government vehicle was set ablaze during a demonstration staged by peddlers in Karbala following an earlier bombing on Saturday that claimed the lives of dozens of people.

Karbala – A curfew was imposed on both vehicles and pedestrians in central Karbala, particularly in the Old Town that houses the two holiest Shiite shrines, as of Saturday until further notice, after an explosive vehicle ripped through the city this morning, the governor of Karbala said.

Hilla:

In other violence, a policeman was killed Saturday in a drive-by shooting in Hillah, about 95 kilometers south of Baghdad, police said.

Hilla – A joint Iraqi-U.S. force raided the house a member of the Karbala local council for the second time in a month, a council official said.

Suwayra:

A mortar round killed three Iraqi soldiers and wounded four others when it landed at an Iraqi army post in the town of Suwayra on Friday, a police source said.

Kut:

Two Iraqi soldiers were killed and three others wounded in an attack using mortar shells in the area of al-Samra, Wasit province, an Iraqi army source said.

Kut – The former assistant of the Wassit police chief was attacked by unidentified gunmen and was rushed to hospital for treatment, a security source in Wassit said.

Mussayab:

Gunmen killed a policeman heading to work in the town of Mussayab, about 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

Basra:

British forces have killed more eight gunmen laying landmines in southern Iraq, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) says. The operation took place in Basra on Friday night in the area where four soldiers and a translator were killed in a roadside bomb earlier this month. Two roadside bomb teams were hit as they laid devices, with eight understood to have been killed, the MoD said.

An explosive charge went off near a British patrol in western Basra but no casualties were reported, a security source from Basra police said.

Basra – Policemen seized two tanks of fuel prepared to be smuggled in central Basra, the city's customs officials said.

BAIJI - A suicide car bomber killed five Iraqi soldiers and wounded four others when he detonated his explosives at a checkpoint in the northern town of Baiji, police said.

Tikrit – Four Iraqi army soldiers were killed and five others wounded on Saturday when a suicide bomber crashed his vehicle into a checkpoint in western Baiji district, 250 km north of Baghdad, a security source said.

Sualiamniya - Fierce clashes broke out between Sulaimaniya border guards and gunmen, believed of having links to the Kurdistan brigades of Ansar al-Islam armed group, in Banjwin district near the borders with Iran, a source at Kurdistan border guards said on Saturday.

Diwaniya - The Multi-National Forces' Echo base in southern Diwaniya came under mortar attack on Saturday, while Iraqi and U.S. forces arrested suspected militants in a search campaign in the Shiite city, a security source said.

Riyadh:

Insurgents killed one civilian and wounded another as they fired on pedestrians in the town of Riyadh, near Kirkuk, on Friday, police said.

Kirkuk:

Police said four would-be suicide attackers were killed Saturday in the northern city of Kirkuk when one of them detonated his explosives belt prematurely. All four men were killed but no civilians were hurt, said police Brig. Adil Zain-Alabideen. He said all four were insurgents embarking on an attack mission, but did not elaborate.

Four gunmen were killed while moving a vehicle rigged with explosives from a neighborhood in Kirkuk to another part of the city, an official security source from Kirkuk police said.

An explosive charge went off inside an Internet cafe in a popular neighborhood in southern Kirkuk, but no casualties were reported, eyewitnesses said.

MOSUL - The bodies of four people were found in different districts of Mosul, two of them decapitated, police said.

Mosul – A joint Iraqi-U.S. force arrested the so-called Mosul Wali (Mosul ruler) of the self-styled organization Islamic Nation of Iraq, security sources said.

Mosul- Two kidnapped soldiers were found dead on Saturday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, a police source said.

Mosul – The Ninawa police chief ordered the arrest of people who stoned to death a Yazidi girl who converted to Islam four months ago.

Mosul – A car rigged with explosives blew up near a building that used to be occupied by the Iraqi army in Mosul, Iraqi police said.

MADAEN - A roadside bomb killed one civilian and wounded nine others when it blew up in the town of Madaen, just south of Baghdad, police said.

Najaf – The local administration in the holy Shiite city of Najaf imposed a curfew on all vehicles in the Old Town for Saturday's earlier bombing in neighboring Karbala province, which killed 36 people and wounded 168 others, Najaf media spokesman said.

Tal Afar:

A sniper shot dead a civilian woman in the religiously mixed town of Tal Afar on Friday, police said.

Al Anbar Prv:

An Iraqi government source says the country's security forces killed two key insurgent leaders with the help of Iraqi tribes leaders in Al-Anbar province. The Interior Ministry source said the operation, which also resulted in the arrest of 37 al-Qaida linked terrorists, brought about the deaths of Ahmad Hadid, leader of the so-called "Islamic State in Fallujah," and Al-Anbar Ibrahim Keitan, al-Qaida ' s military coordinator in the province, KUNA, the Kuwait News Agency, reported Saturday. Iraqi police working with Bu Eisa tribesmen also arrested six other terrorists in south Amiriyah and arrested 11 al-Qaida suspects in the Euphrates area.

In other violence, three civilians were killed in drive-by shootings in Fallujah, about 60 miles south of Baghdad, police said.

Two Iraqi soldiers were killed and another wounded in clashes that broke out between Iraqi police forces and gunmen in Falluja, Anbar province

In Falluja a U.S. base in the restive city came under a mortar attack, an Iraqi police source said.

FALLUJA - The director of the nationality office was killed by gunmen in a drive-by shooting in Falluja, police said. His eight-year-old boy was seriously wounded.

Falluja- Two Iraqi policemen were killed and another was wounded on Saturday afternoon when unknown gunmen ambushed a police vehicle patrol in Falluja city, a police source said.

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