Reply #36: Aljazeera.Net: Attacks pierce Baghdad security net

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Attacks pierce Baghdad security net
Sunday 29 May 2005, 20:55 Makka Time, 17:55 GMT

Thousands of Iraqi forces have thrown a security net over Baghdad to snare anti-US fighters, but armed groups quickly struck back with a string of car bombings.

Four car bombs in and around the capital killed 16 people on Sunday, most of them security personnel, in a swift response to Iraq's widest homegrown clampdown since the fall of Saddam Hussein more than two years ago.

Nine soldiers taking part in Operation Lightning died in a car bombing at their roadblock just south of the capital, while two policemen were killed when a car bomber targeted their patrol in southwestern Baghdad.

In western Baghdad, a car bomb targeting police commandos killed three people and wounded 20, an Interior Ministry source said, adding that police then fought a firefight with men in the area.

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