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Tuesday, 22 March 2011

Five killed in Iraq violence


Senior army officer, three policemen, member of an anti-Qaeda squad killed a series of attacks in Iraq.

Middle East Online


Security forces eyed by insurgents

BAGHDAD - A senior army officer, three policemen and a member of an anti-Qaeda squad were killed and eight people were wounded in a series of attacks on Tuesday in Iraq, security services said.

Lieutenant-Colonel Yussef Mohammad, based in the defence ministry, was killed while driving on an expressway in the east of the capital by a magnetic bomb that had been placed under his car, an interior ministry source said.

Two police officers, both travelling in cars and attacked by gunmen using guns with silencers, were shot dead in separate incidents in Baghdad.

In central Baghdad's Karrada district a policeman was killed and three others were wounded when their patrol was targeted by a bomb.

In Zafraniyah, a southern district of Baghdad, three people including two soldiers were wounded by a bomb placed at the side of a main road.

Elsewhere, a device exploded in the eastern district of Sheikh Omar as a convoy passed carrying Ali Hassen Abu Naila, administrative director of the central bank, injuring two of his guards, a bank official said.

Earlier, an interior ministry source said the attack had targeted a member of the department of finance and wounded three passers-by.

A member of the anti-Al-Qaeda Sahwa (Awakening) militia in Kirkuk was murdered outside his home in Ryaz, near Hawija, 230 kilometres (145 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

The Sahwa militia, comprising former insurgents, turned against their Al-Qaeda comrades in arms and played a crucial role lowering the level of violence in Iraq.

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