Security Incidents for 03/24/07

PHOTO: A boy holds an Iraqi flag during a protest in Kerbala, 110 km (70 miles) south of Baghdad, March 24, 2007. Thousands of displaced families took to the streets in Kerbala on Saturday, demonstrating against a government decision to ask them to move out from the government buildings they have occupied. REUTERS/Mushtaq Muhammad (IRAQ)

Baghdad:

A suicide truck bomber with explosives hidden under a load of bricks struck a police station in a mainly Sunni area in southern Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 23, police said. The attacker detonated his explosives at the concrete blast walls protecting the gate of the Dora police station because he could not go any farther, but the building was heavily damaged, police said. Those killed included four policemen and seven civilians, including some detainees, while 15 officers and eight civilians were wounded, according to the authorities. Policemen were searching the debris for survivors or more victims, including detainees who were being held in a room inside the station.

Officers said the 20 killed in the attack on the police station in the volatile southern district of Dora included 14 policemen and three detainees as well as three others working in the building. Another 26 were wounded, most of them police.

20 were killed (14 policemen, 3 detainees and 3 construction workers) were killed and 27 others were injured, 19 of them were policemen including the director of Al Rasheed police directorate in a suicide truck bomb targeted the directorate in Doura neighborhood south Baghdad around 10,50 am.

The attack happened three hours after two mortar shells landed on a Shi'ite enclave elsewhere in Dora, killing at least three people and wounding seven

U.S. and Iraqi troops sealed off the Karrada district in the heart of Baghdad on Saturday, stopping all vehicles and pedestrians from entering the area as part of major crackdown on sectarian violence in the capital.

Gunmen attacked an army checkpoint in Hay al Jamiya in western Baghdad and there were fierce clashes in the area, police and a resident said

Gunmen also ambushed an Iraqi army checkpoint in Baghdad's western Sunni neighborhood of Jami'a, killing a soldier and wounding two others, police said, adding that a militant also was killed in subsequent clashes.

While conducting a dismounted combat patrol, a MND-B Soldier died when an improvised explosive device detonated near the Soldier’s position south of Baghdad March 23.

A civilian was killed and 4 others were wounded when mortar round fell in Abu Disheer neighborhood south Baghdad around 9 am.

Around 10:30 a.m. gunmen clashed with the Iraqi army in KambSara area. 2 civilians were injured.

Around 1:30 p.m. mortar shell landed in Tariq neighborhood (east Baghdad). The shelling killed one woman and injured 3 all from one family

Around 3:00 p.m. Gunmen attacked and killed Dr. Abdul Hussein Jafar Mutlak the director of Al Karama hospital in Al Baia neighborhood west Baghdad.

Around 5:00 p.m. mortar shells landed again in Abu Disheer neighborhood causing injuries to 5 civilians.

Police found 10 corpses throughout Baghdad. The corpses were found in the following neighborhoods: 1 in Baia, 2 in Doura, 2 in Jihad, 1 in Amil, 1 in Shuala, 1 in New Baghdad, 1 in Sadr, 1 in Husseiniya.

Diyala Prv:

Two gunmen were killed and eight others arrested in violent clashes between Iraqi policemen and an armed group in central Baaquba, an official police source said. The source did not elaborate on the reasons behind the clashes or whether there were casualties from the policemen's ranks.

A security source from Bani Saad police directorate east of Baquba city said that 2 civilians were killed and 3 others injured when 15 mortar rounds fell downtown Bani Saad town and Shaimaa village early morning today.

Insurgents kidnapped 9 people yesterday afternoon in Muqdadiya city, police said .one of the kidnapped group is an interpreter working for the MNF.

Haswa:

A suicide truck bomber also struck near a Shi'ite mosque in the town of Haswa about 60km south of Baghdad. A local hospital said five were killed and 33 wounded.

Hilla:

A roadside bomb exploded in Hilla, 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad, wounding six policemen and three civilians, police said.

The casualties of the blast that occurred on Saturday morning north of Hilla rose up to five dead and 34 more wounded after four mortar shells landed into the location, a police source said. "Four mortar rounds landed near a Shiite mosque in north of Hilla only minutes after explosives stashed in a truck detonated in the location," the source told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq

Diwaniya:

The bullet-riddled body of a military intelligence officer was found in the centre of Diwaniya, 180 km (110 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

Suwayrah:

Witnesses in Suwayrah city, 50 kilometres south-east of Baghdad, said a US army patrol opened fire on a car, killing a former Iraqi senior army officer and his driver and wounding a third Iraqi.

Kirkuk:

At least two Iraqi army soldiers were shot dead and three others wounded Saturday in an attack in the northern city of Kirkuk, an Iraqi police source said. Armed men opened fire at dawn on an Iraqi army vehicle in Riyad district, north-west of Kirkuk, senior army officer Khalil al-Zobai said.

A source in Kirkuk police directorate said that tow Iraqi army soldiers were killed and 4 others were injured in addition to the commander of the 3rd brigade when they were attacked by gunmen near Al Safra village on the road of Karkuk- Beiji north of Baghdad. The source said that clashes happened between the two sides lasted for 30 minutes.

Mosul:

Four bodies were found in the northern city of Mosul on Friday, a morgue official said. One was a policeman and another was a Kurd.

Three people were killed and three others wounded in a suicide blast in Mosul, the mayor of Talafar district said on Saturday. "A suicide bomber attacked a crowded place in Talafar, northwest of Ninawa province," Brig. Nijm Abdullah al-Juburi told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI) by telephone.

Al Anbar Prv:

In the Rutba area near the Jordanian border, the U.S. military said it killed three suspected insurgents in an airstrike on their car. A fourth suspect blew himself up.

three car bombers launched almost simultaneous attacks against a police station and checkpoints in western Iraq. Dr Hamdi al-Alousi at al Qaim hospital put the death toll from the attacks in the Qaim area near the Syrian border at six with 17 people, mostly police, wounded. Anbar provincial police said eight people had died and 20 wounded.

At least 20 Iraqi policemen were killed and 30 others wounded on Saturday when suicide attackers detonated three explosives-rigged cars near police stations in Anbar province, a security source said. "Today at 1:00 pm, a suicide attacker detonated an explosives-rigged car near al-Saada village police station in south of al-Qaim town, 450 km west of Baghdad, and another suicide bomber simultaneously detonated a second explosives-rigged car near al-Karablah village police station in east of the town," the source told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). The source added "only one hour later, a third explosives-rigged car was detonated by another suicide bomber near al-Obeidi police station in south of al-Qaim."

Militants attacked a U.S. and Iraqi security post in Ramadi on Friday with rifles, RPGs and a suicide car bomb, the U.S. military said. Iraqi forces shot the vehicle which detonated early, and three Iraqi soldiers were wounded, a U.S. statement said.

Four Iraqi soldiers were killed when a roadside bomb exploded in Falluja, Iraqi police told the AFP news agency

And the bullet-riddled bodies of eight men showing signs of torture in Fallujah.

The bodies of 12 people were found in Falluja, in western Iraq, police said.

A soldier assigned to Multi National Force-West died March 23 while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar Province.

A patrol of U.S. Marines came under attack on Saturday by unidentified gunmen, an Iraqi police source said. "Unidentified gunmen ambushed a U.S. patrol of several Humvee vehicles while it was leaving a base in the district of al-Risala, west of Falluja," the source told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). He said, "attackers opened fire at the U.S. patrol, which was followed by violent clashes with automatic weapons that lasted for 15 minutes." The source was not sure about the number of casualties from the Marines' ranks.

Iraqi and U.S. forces clashed with gunmen in Falluja and a medical source said four people were killed.

Tal Afar:

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a market in the northwestern Iraqi town of Tal Afar on Saturday, killing 10 people and wounding three, the mayor of the town said. Brigadier Najim al Jibouri, mayor of Tal Afar, said the attacker was wearing a suicide vest and targeted the Al Saray market in the centre of the town near the Syrian border. Two of the dead were policemen, he said.

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