Suicide bomber hits police HQ in Iraq town, 9 killed

[maddezmom]

Source: Reuters

MOSUL, Iraq, June 7 (Reuters) - A suicide truck bomber killed nine people and wounded 22 in an attack on the police headquarters of an Iraqi town near the Syrian border on Thursday, police said

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL736394.htm

[Eagle_Eye]

1. Just another instance of Bush's war needlessly killing people

Our troops will never be able to stop this kind of violence.
Our troops are actually contributing to this kind of violence.
We must withdraw our troops immediately and seek a diplomatic solution to this problem.
There is no other way.

[maddezmom]

2. Gunmen kill journalist in Iraq's Mosul

Gunmen kill journalist in Iraq's Mosul
07 Jun 2007 12:36:34 GMT
Source: Reuters
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Background
Iraq in turmoil
More BAGHDAD, June 7 (Reuters) - A journalist working with the independent Aswat al-Iraq news agency in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul was killed by gunmen on Thursday, the agency said.

Sahar al-Haideri was married with three daughters, the agency said. Her body was found in the al-Hadbaa neighbourhood of northeastern Mosul.

"Unknown armed people killed her today at noon," Aswat al-Iraq (Voice of Iraq) said in a statement.

Journalists have been dying in record numbers in Iraq, with at least 12 killed in May, the highest monthly total since the start of the U.S.-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein in 2003, according to media watchdogs.

more:http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L07799634.htm

[maddezmom]

3. U.S. death toll nears 3,500 in Iraq

U.S. death toll nears 3,500 in Iraq By HAMID AHMED, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 33 minutes ago



BAGHDAD - Iraq's seemingly inexhaustible corps of terror bombers struck across the country again Thursday, from a restaurant in Baghdad's teeming Sadr City, to a police station leveled by a blast near the Syrian border. At least 15 people were reported killed.

The new blows against Iraqi government authority came as U.S. military casualties rose toward a four-year death toll of 3,500, with 22 dead reported for the first six days of June, almost double that of June 2006.

The U.S. military reported four U.S. soldiers were killed in separate incidents Tuesday and Wednesday — roadside bombings in eastern Baghdad and near Beiji, north of the capital, and an explosion and enemy gunfire in Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad.

That lifted the U.S. death toll in four years of war to 3,498. And it raised the average rate of U.S. troops deaths to about four per day in June, compared with two a day in June 2006.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070607/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[jwirr]

4. These attacks on the Iraqi police are not surprising. The Iraqi people

understand that government control in Iraq does not lay in the elections, the law or the constitution but in who has the strongest and best armed police force. We are training them so the people see them as an extension of *ss's control over their country. Saddam was our man in this way and they want no more of it.

[Eugene]

5. Car bomb in Bagdad kills at least 5 - Reuters Factbox

Source: Reuters

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, June 7
07 Jun 2007 13:33:30 GMT
Source: Reuters

June 7 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq
at 1320 GMT on Thursday:

* indicates new or updated item.

-snip-

* BAGHDAD - At least five people were killed and 15 wounded
when a car bomb exploded near a restaurant in the Shi'ite Sadr
City district of Baghdad, police said.

* MOSUL - A female journalist working with the independent
Aswat al-Iraq news agency in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul
was killed by gunmen, the agency said.

-snip-

BAGHDAD - Iraqi soldiers killed eight suspected insurgents and
arrested 40 others in different parts of Iraq over the past 24
hours, the Iraqi military said.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L07394716.htm

[Eugene]

6. Bombers in Iraq kill 19, reporter shot dead

Source: Reuters

Bombers in Iraq kill 19, reporter shot dead
Thu Jun 7, 2007 11:51AM EDT

By Ahmed Rasheed

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bombers struck in Baghdad and at a police
headquarters in a northern Iraqi border town on Thursday, killing
19 people, and gunmen shot a reporter in the latest attack
targeting Iraqi journalists.

In the worst violence, a suicide bomber driving a truck packed
with explosives rammed a police headquarters and adjoining
municipal building in the northern town of Rabea, near the Syrian
border, killing
nine people, police said.

The attack, which also wounded 22 people, including five British
civilian contractors, largely destroyed both buildings, police
said.

-snip-

Two suicide car bombers also hit an Iraqi army checkpoint in the
western Baghdad suburb of Abu Ghraib, killing five people.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSCOL0215202...

[maddezmom]

7. 7 University students kidnapped in Iraq

University students kidnapped in Iraq

BAGHDAD, June 7: Gunmen abducted seven university students from a bus in Iraq Thursday.

The students were traveling between Al-Khalis and Baquba when they were abducted at a fake security checkpoint, Iraqi security sources told the Kuwait News Service, KUNA.

Also Thursday, two car bombs killed five people and wounded another 15 in Baghdad's Sadr City, and a bank director was kidnapped in Basra, Alsumaria reported. Iraq's Education Ministry reported that two exam observers had been killed.

The U.S. Army said Thursday that it had killed al-Qaida leader Mohammed Mahmoud Kazem Hussein Al Mashhadani, who is also known as Abu Abdullah, arrested four of his aides and killed four people in an operation in western Baghdad, Alsumaria reported.

more:http://www.newkerala.com/news5.php?action=fullnews&id=3...

[Eugene]

8. 32 found shot in Bagdad - Reuters Factbox

Source: Reuters

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, June 7
07 Jun 2007 21:04:32 GMT
Source: Reuters

June 7 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq
at 2030 GMT on Thursday:

* indicates new or updated item.

* BAGHDAD - The bodies of 32 people were found shot in different
parts of Baghdad in the past 24 hours, police said.

* SAMARRA - Five people, including a policeman, were killed and
nine wounded in different incidents around Samarra, 100 km
(62 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

* MOSUL - The bodies of four people were found shot dead in
different areas of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad,
police said.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L07394716.htm

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According to the Factbox, over 70 persons were killed or found dead
in Iraq over the previous 24 hours.

[maddezmom]

9. RIP to all and off topic

I've been watching the new re: the young woman found today. Just heartbreaking. I keep thinking og the Iraqi families. They go through this type of heartbreak every day.