October 16th 2006 In Iraq

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IBO661763.htm

Oct 16 (Reuters) - Following are security and other developments in Iraq reported on Monday as of 1710 GMT:

Asterisk denotes a new or updated item.

BAGHDAD - Two near simultaneous car bombs killed 20 people and wounded 17 in the mixed neighbourhood of Ur in northern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

*BAGHDAD - A gunman shot dead the brother of the chief prosecutor in Saddam Hussein's trial for genocide against ethnic Kurds in his Baghdad home, prosecutor Munqith al-Faroon said.

MAHMUDIYA - A Shi'ite family of five was killed after gunmen stormed their home in the town of Mahmudiya, police said.

SUWAYRA - At least 10 people were killed and 15 wounded when a car bomb went off near a bank in a market in the town of Suwayra, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Two U.S. soldiers were killed and two others were wounded on Sunday in the province of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - Three roadside bombs killed three civilians and wounded seven other people, in central Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A total of 46 bodies, with gunshot wounds and bearing signs of torture, were found in Baghdad since Saturday night, an Interior Ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - Clashes between police and gunmen killed three people and wounded five in central Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Police found the bodies of two men in Mosul, northern Iraq, a hospital source said.

MADAEN - Gunmen killed a policeman in Madaen, 45 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

KHALIS - Gunmen killed four shop owners and wounded five others in the town of Khalis, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

KHALIS - Gunmen killed two bodyguards of former Prime Minster Ibrahim al-Jaafari in Khalis, police said.


KHALIS - A bomb in a Shi'ite mosque wounded seven worshipers on Sunday in Khalis, police said.

NEAR BAQUBA - Gunmen killed four policemen and kidnapped three others near Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BASRA - Gunmen fired rocket-propelled grenades at a parked vehicle belonging to the British Consulate in Basra, southern Iraq. A foreign security guard was wounded, a consulate spokeswoman said.

MOSUL - Gunmen attacked a police patrol and wounded two in Mosul, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed the media director of the education department, Raad al-Hayali, on Sunday in Mosul, police said.

BAGHDAD - The Iraqi army arrested 30 "terrorists" and 69 suspected insurgents in different parts of Iraq during the last 24 hours, the Defence Ministry said on Monday.

NAJAF - A roadside bomb targeted the convoy of Mohammad Daeekh, the head of the police crime department, wounding one of his bodyguards in the Shi'ite city of Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed Farouq Atta, an air force brigadier, and wounded two of his companions on Sunday in northern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

OTHER DEVELOPMENTS

BAGHDAD - A U.S.-backed court trying Saddam Hussein for the killing of Shi'ite villagers in the 1980s could deliver a verdict on Nov. 5, officials said, a ruling which could send the ousted leader to the gallows

WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush assured Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki during a telephone conversation that Washington had not set any deadline for the Iraqi government to control sectarian violence, the White House said.

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1. Sad, sad, sad.

God it makes me embarrased to be American.