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Iraq

One killed, five injured in two blasts in Mosul

2006-10-19

(KUNA) -- One person was killed and five others were injured as a result of two explosions that took place in the city of Mosul, a source at the Kurdish National Alliance said today. The first explosion took place near one of the alliance's headquarters, resulting in the killing of one of its guards and the injuring of another. The second blast occurred when a roadside bomb went off while a police patrol was passing by in the neighborhood of Nabi Younis, resulting in injuring two women, an elderly person and a policeman. The injured were rushed to hospital for treatment. Meanwhile, Iraqi and multi-national forces arrested 15 terrorists, in addition to seizing a large quantity of arms and taking over a car-bomb manufacturing warehouse. The security operation was part of a military campaign codenamed 'black panther', Iraqi Army commander in Kirkuk Major General Anwar Amin said in a press release.

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Iraq

Iraqi police officer survives assassination, five terrorists arrested

2006-03-27

An Iraqi chief of police survived assassination on Sunday in the city of Kirkuk, northern Iraq. Police sources told reporters that an explosive device targeted the convoy of Chief of Meqdad Police Center, Brigadier Adel Zein Al-Abedin while on his way to work, noting that the blast caused property damages. Meanwhile, Iraqi Army Commander Air Vice Marshal Anwar Amin said the Multi-National Force on Sunday executed a burst and search operation in Safra village, and detained five terrorists involved in armed attacks against the Iraqi security forces.

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Zarqawi sez he's gonna ice Mosul governor

2005-02-03

Rebels killed 12 Iraqi soldiers near Kirkuk yesterday, said an Iraqi military commander. The 12 soldiers were travelling back from their jobs guarding oil pipelines when they were ambushed on the road between the villages of Azab and Zaraquiya, 85km west of Kirkuk, said General Anwar Amin. Earlier, 11 Iraqis, mostly security forces, have been killed in attacks north and south of Baghdad, security sources said. Meanwhile, the chief of police in Mosul has given insurgents two weeks to give up their weapons or face a crackdown by security forces emboldened after the election. "Hand over your weapons or we will come and get you," police chief Brigadier Mohammed Ahmed Al Jabouri said in a television address. The ultimatum came two days after Iraq held successful national elections despite insurgent threats. US Marines killed a leader of Abu Musab Al Zarqawi's group and 13 other insurgents during clashes late last month, the US military said. A US military statement announced that Ali Mohammad, also known as Abdul Jalil, was killed during a Marines' raid on January 26 in Haditha west of Baghdad and near the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah. Iraq has enjoyed a period of relative calm since Sunday's landmark elections despite threats by insurgents to continue their deadly campaign against the government and US-led forces. Two soldiers and a civilian were killed when clashes erupted between rebels and an army patrol in the restive Sunni city of Samarra, north of Baghdad. "The civilian was driving close to where the clashes happened," said an army officer. Another soldier was killed and one wounded when their patrol was targeted by a bomb around dawn near Dhuluiya, about 70km north of Baghdad, the army said. A bomb apparently intended for a passing US army patrol killed two civilians driving in a car at Dijla, about 30km north of the capital, police said. Gunmen also killed two policemen near Baquba, an interior ministry source said.

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Iraqi police kill gunman as car bomb defused near Kirkuk

2004-01-30

Late Thursday, U.S. soldiers defused a car bomb on the al-Hawija bridge on a highway used by occupation forces and oil tankers transporting crude from the northern oilfields in Kirkuk to Iraq’s biggest refinery in Beiji, said Kirkuk police chief Gen. Turhan Youssef, according to the AP. Youssef said Iraqi police found the car and informed occupation forces. Later, police arrested four people for suspected involvement. Early on Friday, Iraqi police manning a checkpoint in northern Iraq shot dead one of the six attackers who opened fire at them, police said. According to them, a checkpoint of Iraqi Civil Defence Forces was attacked by six gunmen in Salman Beg, 90 kilometres south of Kirkuk. One attacker was killed and another injured in retaliatory fire, said Gen. Anwar Amin, chief of ICDC in Kirkuk. Excellent! Elsewhere, many shopkeepers in Ramadi, a pro-Saddam city west of Baghdad, reported receiving leaflets warning Iraqis to stop working for or with Americans within 10 days or face death. The undated statement was signed by a previously unknown group, "Anbar Mujahedeen Brigade, the Military Unit." Anbar is the province that includes Ramadi. Another member of the "Group of the Month Club".

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