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Iraq
Iraqi Forces Clear Dhuluiyah of IS Jihadists
2014-12-31
[AnNahar] Iraqi forces on Tuesday completed the recapture of the town of Dhuluiyah, parts of which had been held by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
jihadist group for months, commanders said.

Pro-government forces had pushed into the town, located 90 kilometers (55 miles) outside Baghdad, from the north two days earlier, fighting their way south.

"Forces from the army and the police and (militiamen) and tribal fighters succeeded today in regaining control of Dhuluiyah," an army major general told Agence La Belle France-Presse.

The officer said that 50 military vehicles advanced from the north and linked up with allied forces in the town's southern Jubur area, which had resisted repeated assault by IS.

This "means the complete liberation of Dhuluiyah and the end of the (IS) presence," he added.

A leader in the Shiite Badr militia, which took part in the operation, confirmed the "complete liberation of Dhuluiyah."

"We succeeded in breaking the blockade which was imposed by (IS) on the Jubur tribe," the commander said.

People had gun sex and honked car horns in celebration, according to a policeman in the town, which is strategically located on roads linking the eastern province of Diyala to Salaheddin province in the north.

Omar al-Juburi, a leader of the tribal forces battling IS, said earlier that military reinforcements had arrived to carry out a renewed push to retake the town.

Clashes took place in some areas on Tuesday where IS forces were holed up in houses, Juburi said.

IS fighters have been carrying out "suicide kabooms" on pro-government forces, he added.

On Monday IS published pictures online showing what it described as battles in Dhuluiyah.

In one of the pictures, fighters are seen rigging a car with explosives. Another shows a man carrying out a suicide attack on government forces.

The Iraqi defense ministry said Monday that government warplanes had carried out raids against jihadists positions in the town.

In October, Iraqi forces retook most of Dhuluiyah from IS, but the jihadists later launched a counter-offensive and were able to recapture ground.

Since Sunday government forces backed by Sunni rustics and Shiite snuffies have been clearing bombs and other explosives placed by the jihadists in various parts of the town.

IS spearheaded a Lion of Islam offensive in June that overran Iraq's second city djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
and then swept through much of the country's Sunni Arab heartland.

Backed by U.S.-led air strikes, Kurdish forces, Shiite militias and Sunni rustics, Iraqi troops have since managed to wrest back some territory from the jihadists, but three major cities and swathes of other territory are still outside government control.

The U.S.-led coalition announced that it had carried out eight air strikes against IS in Iraq on Tuesday, targeting fighters as well as vehicles and buildings used by the jihadists.

It also launched seven raids in Syria, where IS has also seized large areas for its self-proclaimed cross-border Islamic "caliphate."
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Iraq
Iraq Army Chief Claims Major Victory in Sunni Town
2014-10-04
[AnNahar]. Iraq's army chief Friday claimed a major victory in Dhuluiyah, a town north of Baghdad where a Sunni tribe has been resisting the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
jihadist group for almost four months.

The Dhuluiyah fighters contacted by Agence La Belle France-Presse, however, said the town had not yet been fully liberated.

"Dhuluiyah has been completely cleared of IS," Lieutenant General Mohammed al-Askari told AFP.

"The Iraqi army, as well as volunteers from the tribes and popular brigades (Shiite militias), entered Dhuluiyah and have now reached the office of the mayor," he said.

Dhuluiyah lies about 90 kilometers (55 miles) from Baghdad and the Jubur tribe in the south of the town has held out against relentless attacks by the jihadists.

A victory against IS there has been described as crucial to efforts by the government to show it was willing to support Sunni tribes rejecting IS.

"The army arrived from the north and moved into areas close to the Khazraj district" which has been under IS control for the best part of the past four months, said one fighter in Dhuluiyah, Abu Haitham al-Juburi.

He said the operation was coordinated with another tribe, the Albu Faraj, and explained that pro-government forces had left an escape route open for the jihadists in order to avoid more bloodshed.

"The officer in charge decided not to attack Khazraj tonight in order to minimize casualties. We will go there tomorrow," he said.
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Iraq
Iraqi Neighborhood Holds out against Jihadists
2014-09-20
[AnNahar] Caught between jihadists and the Tigris River, residents of one neighborhood in a Sunni town in Iraq have taken up arms alongside security forces and held out for months.

If the fighters, police and soldiers defending the Jubur area in Dhuluiyah north of Baghdad repel the Islamic State (IS) -- a Sunni jihadist group -- it would be a powerful symbol of resistance for the forces battling against it.

And it could help gain support for the anti-jihadist fight among Iraqi Sunni Arabs who feel they have been marginalized by the Shiite-led government and targeted by its security forces.

Their backing is key to regaining ground from IS and allied groups that overran much of the Sunni Arab heartland in June.

Jubur, named for the tribe that resides there, is an idyllic area of colorful houses, soaring palm trees and the reed-lined Tigris, but the peace is broken by periodic bursts of machinegun and rifle fire and kabooms.

"The area, a small part of the map, God willing, will be an (IS) cemetery and... the beginning of the complete liberation of Iraq," Mohammed Mahmud Hamed said near the front line on the northern side of Jubur, past which lie myrmidon-held parts of the town.

Hamed was an Arabic teacher with no military training when the conflict began, but he now carries a Kalashnikov assault rifle and wears a magazine carrier over his robe.

Behind him is Al-Isnad Street, which was once a commercial avenue but is now littered with bullet casings and blocked off by mounds of dirt, sections of concrete blast walls and a trench to guard against jacket wallahs.

Shops have been scored by gunfire and shrapnel, and nearby palm trees are charred black.

While sectarian differences are a major source of tension in Iraq, the common jihadist enemy has united Jubur's defenders across religious lines.

Ahmed al-Saidi, one of the Shiite soldiers posted in Dhuluiyah, praised the "heroic Jubur tribe," while Hamed said that there is "no difference between us."

Jubur has not fallen to the jihadists, but they have still been able to strike inside it, including with suicide bombers driving American Humvee armored vehicles they captured from the Iraqi military.

One such blast destroyed the town's main street, collapsing a building next to a mosque, smashing storefronts and leaving behind piles of twisted metal and other debris.

IS "aims to divide the country and destroy it," Abed Mutlak Mohammed, a big shot in the Jubur tribe, said at the area's eastern front line.

He said the tribe in Dhuluiyah has become "the highest example to be followed in all the Sunni areas of Iraq".

"A small tribe ... resisted (IS) for 90 days," Mohammed said, putting the number fighters deployed at around 1,500, though more will take up arms if needed.

Mohammed said he wants the United States to expand its campaign of air strikes against jihadists in Iraq to the Dhuluiyah area, the latest chapter in the town's history of both supporting and opposing Sunni snuffies and fighting against and alongside American forces.

At the eastern front line, the road is blocked by dirt barricades and a trench and guarded by soldiers and police. Numerous bullet casings and empty ammunition cannisters are scattered on the ground.

A Ferris wheel rises above an amusement park next to the blockaded road, but instead of being filled with playing children, the site is occupied by security forces facing snuffies who hold the far bank of the river.

Before the conflict, there were two bridges leading to Dhuluiyah, but one was smashed by a bus bomb and the other by an explosives-rigged boat.

Now, small metal boats with outboard motors are Jubur's lifeline, braving sniper fire and shelling to bring in items ranging from ice to cooking gas and taking the maimed out for treatment.

In Jubur, even the dead are besieged -- the town's main cemetery lies outside the control of anti-IS forces, meaning people have to bury their relatives wherever there is space.

"Some of the families were forced to bury their dead in the house garden," said resident Ali Mussa, after pointing out the places where six of his relatives were buried in a dirt lot bordered by palm trees.

For the people of Jubur, it is a fight to the death, with Mohammed saying there would be a "massacre" if the snuffies succeeded in overrunning the area.

"We will fight them to the last" Juburi in Dhuluiyah, he said.
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Iraq
U.S. Bombs IS Near Baghdad for First Time
2014-09-17
[AnNahar] U.S. warplanes carried out their first air strike on the Islamic State near Baghdad, as world diplomats pledged Monday to support Iraq in its fight against the bad boys.

The United States early last month began air strikes against IS positions in northern Iraq, but Monday's announcement that the campaign had targeted the jihadists near the Iraqi capital marks an escalation in the scope of the mission.

It comes less than a week after U.S. President Barack Obama
Because I won...
, in a primetime television address to the nation, ordered a "relentless" war against the Islamic State, including air strikes in Syria and expanded operations in Iraq to "destroy" the marauding jihadist army.

"U.S. military forces continued to attack ISIL (IS) holy warriors in Iraq, employing attack and fighter aircraft to conduct two air strikes Sunday and Monday in support of Iraqi security forces near Sinjar and southwest of Baghdad," U.S. Central Command said in a statement.

"The air strike southwest of Baghdad was the first strike taken as part of our expanded efforts beyond protecting our own people and humanitarian missions to hit ISIL targets as Iraqi forces go on offense, as outlined in the president's speech last Wednesday."

The strikes destroyed six IS vehicles near Sinjar and an IS fighting position southwest of Baghdad that had been firing on Iraqi forces.

They bring the number of U.S. air strikes across Iraq to 162.

- 'Any means' -
It came as representatives from about 30 countries and international organizations, including the United States, Russia and China, met in Gay Paree to discuss the crisis triggered when IS overran large areas of Iraq and Syria, carrying out beheadings and forced religious conversions.

In a joint statement, diplomats vowed to support Baghdad "by any means necessary, including appropriate military assistance, in line with the needs expressed by the Iraqi authorities, in accordance with international law and without jeopardizing civilian security."
Pretty words. Still, even little Albania is sending weapons and ammunition to the Kurds, and Canada just sent 69 more special forces soldiers to advise them.
They stressed that IS Lions of Islam were "a threat not only to Iraq but also to the entire international community" and underscored the "urgent need" to remove them from Iraq, where they control some 40 percent of the territory.

The Gay Paree statement made no mention of Syria, where Lions of Islam hold a quarter of the country and where Bashir al-Assad's regime still had friends around the Gay Paree conference table, including Russia.

U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
, attending the talks, stressed again that "we're not going to coordinate with the Syrians."
Although apparently we are still quietly giving the Syrians information about ISIS movements and positions. But really that's not the same thing at all.
However he added that Obama had made it clear that "he will hunt down ISIL (Islamic State) wherever they may be, and that includes Syria."
Not precisely he, himself, you understand, but his "people", the ones in uniform who do his bidding, ignoring all risk to themselves.
Another senior U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
, warned that U.S. forces will target Syrian anti-aircraft systems if they take aim at American planes conducting strikes inside Syria against Islamic State rebels.

On the ground in Iraq, sporadic festivities broke out near the town of Dhuluiyah, north of Baghdad, where security forces and allied rustics prepared for an operation against IS-led bad boys.

The area would appear to be the target of the next major drive against IS in Iraq, after a successful operation to break the siege of the town of Amerli farther north.
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Iraq
Iran offers help to US if it acts against Iraq militants
2014-06-15
[Pak Daily Times] Shia Iran offered Saturday to consider working with longtime foe the United States if it takes the lead in helping push back Sunni Arab turbans who have seized a swathe of northern Iraq.

The offer came as Iraqi commanders said the army was preparing a fightback north of Storied Baghdad, bolstered by thousands of Shiite volunteers who have signed up in response to a call to arms by top holy man Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki visited the besieged shrine city of Samarra north of the capital Friday to rally troops and pray at the Al-Askari mausoleum, a revered Shiite shrine whose 2006 bombing by Al-Qaeda sparked sectarian conflict that killed tens of thousands.

President Barack Obama
Because I won...
said he was "looking at all the options" to halt the offensive that has brought jihadist-led turbans within 50 miles (80 kilometres) of Storied Baghdad city limits but ruled out any return of US combat troops. "We will not be sending US troops back into combat in Iraq, but I have asked my national security team to prepare a range of other options that could help support Iraqi security forces," he said.

Obama has been under mounting fire from his Republican opponents over the swift collapse of the Iraqi security forces, which Washington spent billions of dollars training and equipping before pulling out its own troops in 2011. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who since his election last June has overseen a rapprochement with a superpower it long derided as the "Great Satan™," said his government was prepared to consider offering help. "If we see that the United States takes action against terrorist groups in Iraq, then one can think about it," Rouhani told a presser.

The Iraqi cabinet has granted the Shiite premier "unlimited powers" to reverse the lightning offensive, which has seen the turbans sweep down towards Storied Baghdad after overrunning second city djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
on Tuesday. A colonel from the military command responsible for Samarra, a city 110 kilometres (70 miles) north of the capital, said reinforcements from the federal police and army arrived on Friday. The officer said the reinforcements were for a drive against areas north of the city, including Dur and Tikrit, that turbans seized in their drive south earlier this week.

Security forces were awaiting orders to begin, the colonel said. On Friday, police and residents expelled turbans from the Dhuluiyah area, just 90 kilometres (60 miles) north of Storied Baghdad, where they had set up checkpoints, witnesses said. "Residents are now firing into the air" in celebration, witness Abu Abdullah told AFP. Security forces have generally performed poorly, with some abandoning their vehicles and positions and discarding their uniforms. But they have been bolstered by a flood of volunteers since Sistani urged Iraqis Friday to join up to defend the country.

A representative of Sistani, who is adored by Shiites but rarely appears in public, made the call from the shrine city of Karbala, south of Storied Baghdad. "Citizens who are able to bear arms and fight terrorists, defending their country and their people and their holy places, should volunteer and join the security forces to achieve this holy purpose," the representative said. Obama said that while the United States was willing to help out, Iraq needed to take steps to heal the deep divide between the Shiite-led government and the Sunni Arab minority, whose resentment has been exploited by the jihadists.

"The United States will not involve itself in military action in the absence of a political plan by the Iraqis that gives us some assurance that they're prepared to work together," Obama said. "We won't allow ourselves to be dragged back into a situation in which, while we're there. we're keeping a lid on things and, after enormous sacrifices by us, as soon as we're not there, suddenly people end up acting in ways that are not conducive to the long-term stability of the country."

"Any action that we may take to provide assistance to Iraqi security forces has to be joined by a serious and sincere effort by Iraq's leaders to set aside sectarian differences." Pentagon front man Rear Admiral John Kirby declined to say what kind of response was being prepared. He confirmed that the US aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush and its strike group were in the region and ready to act. The US navy said the carrier group was in the Arabian Sea.

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Iraq
Thirteen die in day of violence in Iraq: Police
2014-04-24
[Iran Press TV] At least 13 people have been killed in a day of bombings and shootings in Iraq as violence surges in the country, police say.

On Wednesday, Death Eaters opened fire against Diyala provincial councilor Ahmed al-Harbi's two-vehicle convoy in Muqdadiyah, northeast of the capital Storied Baghdad, killing him and two of his guards, police said.

Staff Major General Mohammed al-Dulaimi said a bomb also went kaboom! near the convoy of Education Minister Mohammed Tamim in the northern province of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
which left no casualties.

In the village of Bayukh, situated in the north of the city of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, seven people were killed and 13 others injured by a boom-mobile kaboom.

Two anti-al-Qaeda Sahwa fighters were rubbed out in the Dhuluiyah area, north of the capital, while a police officer was killed in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit.
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Iraq
Seven Killed in Iraq Violence
2013-08-08
[An Nahar] Violence killed seven people on Wednesday, including three coppers and a young girl, officials said, as authorities struggle to contain the worst violence to hit Iraq since 2008.

The attacks are the latest in a wave of unrest that has made the holy Mohammedan fasting month of Ramadan the bloodiest in years, with more than 800 people killed nationwide.

Militants have struck targets ranging from cafes where Iraqis gather after breaking their daily Ramadan fast to mosques where extended evening prayers are held during Ramadan.

In Wednesday's deadliest attack, a bomb killed three coppers and maimed a fourth near Dhuluiyah, north of Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
Another bomb went kaboom! near a police patrol in the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul, killing a young girl, while police potted two snuffies attempting to plant a bomb.

And in the Mussayib area, south of Storied Baghdad, a magnetic "sticky bomb" on a bus killed one person and maimed two.

Other attacks, including a boom-mobile that went kaboom! near a Kurdish political party office in the northern city of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
maimed dozens more.

Violence has markedly increased this year, especially since an April 23 security operation at a Sunni Arab anti-government protest site that sparked festivities in which dozens died.

Protests erupted in Sunni-majority areas in late 2012, amid widespread discontent among Sunnis, who accuse the Shiite-led government of marginalizing and targeting them.

Analysts say Sunni anger is the main cause of the spike in violence this year.
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Iraq
Wave of bomb attacks in Iraq kill 32, injure over 100
2012-12-18
[Xinhua] A new wave of kabooms, including 10 boom-mobileings, targeted both Iraqi security forces and civilians across the country on Monday, killing a total of 32 people and wounding more than 100 others.

Such deadly attacks are seen as apparent attempts by bully boy groups to stir up sectarian strife among Iraqis to push the country to the brink of a civil war, amid persistent political divisions that have already paralyzed the country's government.

One of the attacks targeted a residential area inhabited by an ethnic Shiite minority named al-Shabak when a boom-mobile destroyed their village of Tahir-Awa, some 30 km east of djinn-infested Mosul, killing seven of them and wounding 14 others. Most of the victims are women and kiddies.

In a separate incident, two roadside kabooms detonated almost simultaneously in a nearby village without causing human casualty.

The Iraqi Shabak people are living in villages in Iraq's northern province of Nineveh, particularly around the thriving provincial capital city of djinn-infested Mosul, some 400 km north of the country's capital Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
Meanwhile,
...back at the pool hall, Peoria Slim swung his cue at Hurley's head...
five people were killed and 25 maimed in two boom-mobile kabooms at a residential area in the city of Tuz-Khurmato, some 200 north of Storied Baghdad.

Separately, three coppers, including an officer, were killed and three others maimed when gunnies attacked their patrol with a bomb and gunfire on a main road near the village of Albu-Slaibi close to the town of Dhuluiyah, some 90 km north of Storied Baghdad.

In a separate incident, a booby-trapped car went off near a bus carrying Iranian Shiite pilgrims and travelling south of the town of Dujail, some 60 km north of Storied Baghdad, wounding 14 Iranians, the source said.

The blast also destroyed nearby cars and killed two Iraqi civilians.

Elsewhere, gunnies attacked a police checkpoint and blew up a booby-trapped car in the city of Tikrit, the capital of Salahudin province in north of Storied Baghdad, killing a policeman and wounding four others.

In the Iraqi city of Samarra, some 120 km north of Storied Baghdad, another boom-mobile went off near a police checkpoint and maimed three civilians.

In Iraq's western province of Anbar, mortar rounds landed on a residential area in the town of Rutba, some 375 km west of Storied Baghdad, killing two people and wounding six others.

Also in the province, a boom-mobile struck a police patrol in the town of Khaldiyah, some 80 km west of Storied Baghdad, killing two coppers and wounding three others, including an officer.

In Storied Baghdad, a boom-mobile detonated near Uqba Bin Nafie Square in the city's central district of Karrada, killing a civilian and wounding four others.

Near Storied Baghdad, three soldiers were maimed in a roadside kaboom near their patrol in the town of Tarmiyah, some 20 km north of the capital, while two coppers were maimed in a separate bomb kaboom near their patrol in the town of Madain, some 30 km south east of Storied Baghdad.

In Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, gunnies attacked the house of a tribal leader late Sunday at a village near the town of Qara- Tabba, some 165 km north east of Storied Baghdad, and killed his son, grandson and a woman before they expeditiously departed at a goodly pace.

On Monday morning, the attacker returned and detonated three bombs at a funeral tent set up for the victims, killing three people and wounding 10 others.

Also in the province, three people were killed and 20 maimed Monday in eight bomb and gunfire attacks, including two boom-mobileings.

The attacks came after a series of kabooms struck the city of Kirkuk Sunday night, which killed at least 11 people and maimed some 50 others.

Observers said the attacks are part of an attempt by bully boy groups, including al-Qaeda krazed killer group, to show that they are capable of carrying out coordinated and high-profile attacks to undermine the Iraqi government's promise of providing security to Iraqis.

The attacks also reflect the bully boy groups' intention to stir up sectarian strife among Iraqis and raise fears that the country could be brought back to widespread violence, particularly as Iraq is trying to avoid the spillover of violence from the ongoing conflict in neighboring Syria.

Violence in Iraq has ebbed from its climax in 2006 and 2007, when sectarian conflicts pushed the country to the brink of a civil war, but tensions and sporadic shootings and bombings are still common across the country.
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Iraq
Bombings Kill Six in Iraq
2012-09-23
[An Nahar] Roadside bombs in Iraq killed six people, among them five soldiers, and maimed 10 on Saturday, security and medical officials said.

In the deadliest attack, a roadside kaboom killed five Iraqi soldiers when it went kaboom! near their Humvee armored vehicle in Dhuluiyah north of Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
, an army captain and a medical source from a hospital in Balad said.

Another roadside kaboom to the north of Baquba killed one person and maimed two, a police lieutenant colonel and a doctor from Baquba General Hospital said.

And eight people, including four security forces members, were maimed by a roadside kaboom in djinn-infested Mosul in north Iraq, police Second Lieutenant Islam Mohammed and a medical source from djinn-infested Mosul General Hospital said.

Violence is down in Iraq compared to its peak in 2006 and 2007, but attacks still occur almost every day.
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Iraq
Eight die in spate of attacks against Iraq security forces
2012-08-04
SAMARRA, Iraq: A bombing and a shooting killed four soldiers and four police yesterday, security and medical officials said a day after 33 people were killed in attacks mainly targeting the security forces.

At least 47 people, among them 34 members of the security forces, have been killed in violence in the first three days of August, which have seen a number of attacks on soldiers, police and anti-Al-Qaeda militiamen, and their facilities.

A roadside bomb targeted an army patrol east of Dhuluiyah, killing four soldiers, among them a major, and wounding four others, an army captain and a medical source said.

Insurgents had attacked a military base near Dhuluiyah on July 23, killing at least 15 soldiers and wounding two more.

And gunmen opened fire on a police checkpoint in Baquba, killing four policemen and wounding two more, a police major and Dr. Ahmed Ibrahim of Baquba General Hospital said.
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Iraq
Four Iraqi soldiers killed by roadside bomb
2012-08-03
Four Iraqi soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad. The bomb reportedly targeted an army patrol east of Dhuluiyah. One of the four killed was a major, and four others were wounded.
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Iraq
Bombing wounds ex-Iraq Qaeda leader
2008-05-09
Mullah Nadhom Mahmud, a former top al-Qaeda leader now enforcing security alongside Iraqi police, has survived a suicide bombing. The suicide bomber detonated the explosives as his convoy was driven by Dhuluiyah, a town some 70 kilometers (40 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraqi police official Mohammed al-Jubburi said on Thursday. Mahmud, 30, and three others were wounded in the incident.

For the past six months, Mullah Nadhom Mahmud has been enforcing security in Dhuluiyah alongside Iraqi police. Al-Qaeda has put a 100,000-dollar bounty on Mahmud's head. He accordingly has been targeted numerous times. Seven months ago a bomb attack peppered his left leg with shrapnel.
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