Car bomb kills 30 in northern Iraq - police

[maddezmom]

Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, May 13 (Reuters) - A car bomb near the office of a leading Kurdish party in northern Iraq killed 30 people and wounded 50 others on Sunday, police said.

The blast took place near the local office of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in Makhmour, a town near the Kurdish city of Arbil, the capital of the autonomous region of Kurdistan.

Colonel Abdul Qadir al Harky, the head of police in Makhmour, said there were many bodies under the rubble and he expected the death toll to rise.

"The bomb hit area with several government offices," he said. Other security sources said that the KDP were having a local meeting at the time of the attack.

At least 15 people were killed and 100 wounded when a truck bomb exploded near the Kurdish interior ministry in Arbil last week.

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KAR335286.htm

[maddezmom]

1. Gunmen kill 2 Iraqis in a city center

BAGHDAD - Gunmen drove into a crowded Iraqi downtown Sunday morning, pulled two handcuffed men out of the trunk, and shot and killed them in a grisly display meant to send a message to residents not to cooperate with U.S.-led forces, police and witnesses said.

"This is the destiny of traitors," the gunmen yelled as they shot their victims in Baqouba, a mostly Sunni city about 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, police and witnesses said.

Many Iraqis who work as policemen or soldiers, or as translators for American forces, keep their jobs secret and wear face masks to avoid being recognized and later killed by Sunni insurgent groups or Shiite militias that oppose the U.S. coalition as occupiers of Iraq.

The eight gunmen in two cars drove into the bustling market in central Baqouba about 8:30 a.m., opened a trunk, pulled out one handcuffed man and repeatedly shot him in the head, the police and witnesses said on condition of anonymity out of concern for their own security.

more:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070513/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_violence

[SpiralHawk]

2. "Don't worry. I'm perfectly comfortable and safe." - Commander AWOL

"Enjoying some time out on the links with my war-profiteering republicon cronies. Oh yeah, too bad about all the dead people and stuff like that."

- Commander AWOL

[maddezmom]

3. Parked car bomb in central Baghdad kills at least 12

Parked car bomb in central Baghdad kills at least 12
BAGHDAD (CNN) -- A parked car bomb detonated near a small market in central Baghdad, killing at least 12 people and wounding 41 others, according to an interior ministry official.

Three policemen were among the dead and four police were also wounded in the attack, the official said.

The market is near Baghdad's Sadriya market, which was the target of an attack last month that killed 140 people -- the worst bombing in the Iraqi capital since the 4-year-old war began. (Posted 7:47 a.m.)

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/13/sunday/index.html

Explosions across Iraq kill at least 41

BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide truck bomber crashed into the offices of a Kurdish political party on Sunday, killing at least 30 people and wounding dozens, including the mayor, officials said. It was the second suicide attack in Kurdish areas of the north in four days.
In Baghdad, a parked car exploded near a popular market in central Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 11 people and wounding about 40, police said.

The blast occurred at 2:45 p.m. on the Wathba Square near the Sadriyah market, one of the main commercial areas in the capital.

Police said three officers were among the 11 people killed and four were among the 43 wounded.

more:http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2007-05-13-iraq_N.htm?csp=34

[maddezmom]

4. Death toll from truck bomb in Iraq rises to 50

More BAGHDAD, May 13 (Reuters) - The death toll from a suicide truck bombing in northern Iraq on Sunday rose to 50, with 70 people wounded, the governor of Nineveh province said.

Duraid Kashmula said the truck bomb in the town of Makhmour targeted a government compound that also houses offices of a Kurdish political party.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IBO344898.htm

[iraqigirl2death]

5. Great

My father was near the bomb in Arbil
and
My uncle works in baghdad in sadrya where the bomb was

Great, what can i do...im so sick of it

[Barrett808]

6. Attack on Kurdish officials in Iraq kills 35

Source: AFP

ARBIL, Iraq (AFP) - A suicide bomber killed at least 35 people when he ploughed his explosives-laden SUV into local administrative offices in the northern Iraqi town of Makhmur, officials said Sunday.

"The new toll for those killed is 35," said Kurdish regional health minister Zirian Abdel Rahman, adding that the toll could be higher since not everyone was evacuated to the hospital in the regional capital of Arbil.

"All the dead are men, but there are women and children among the 115 wounded," he told reporters, adding that many of the wounded were in serious condition.

Police said the bomber hit a compound housing Makhmur's local administration and the offices of two Kurdish political parties.

"We were holding a meeting in my office when there was an explosion outside, which smashed the windows," said Abdel Rahman Bilaf, the mayor of Makhmur, which lies 300 kilometres (180 miles) north of Baghdad.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070513/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestkurds

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. First Arbil, now Makhmur

It seems the pundits will soon have to revise their frequent suggestions that Iraqi Kurdistan is the paradise dreamed of for all Iraq...

[sanskritwarrior]

10. Makhmur isn't in Kurdistan

It's outside the Kurdish zone........

[alcibiades_mystery]

11. Oh, "just south of the auotonomous Kurdish controlled" zone

Fine.

The overall point remains: this is obviously connected with the attack on Arbil last week and constitutes stepped up operations in those areas. I'll get back to you on that other matter that really motivates your post here probably tonight, when I have the time. Cheers.

Here's the AP on that:

"Insurgents also launched attacks across the country Sunday, with a suicide bomber in northern Iraq slamming a truck into local offices of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, which is headed by Massoud Barzani, leader of the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq.

Cars were charred and crushed by the blast in Makhmur, a town with a substantial Kurdish population just south of the autonomous Kurdish-controlled areas.

At least 50 people were killed and 115 were wounded, including the city's mayor, Abdul Rahman Delaf, who also is a prominent Kurdish writer, and the director of the KDP office, said Ziryan Othman, the health minister of the Kurdish regional government.

"Makhmur is an open, peaceful area, and al-Qaida is trying to destabilize it by causing fighting between Arabs and Kurds," said Qassim Amin, who son and daughter — who both work for the party — were injured.

The attack was the second suicide bombing in Kurdish areas in five days. On Wednesday, a suicide truck bomber devastated the security headquarters in Irbil — the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region and one of Iraq's most peaceful cities — killing at least 15 people and wounding more than 100. The Islamic State of Iraq also claimed responsibility for that blast."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070513/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[sanskritwarrior]

12. Ok that's nice and all

but Makhmur is not in Kurdistan, you said it was......Just fact checking you, no worries bro.

[alcibiades_mystery]

13. Conceded

See post 11, again.

Will get back to you on the 4ID thing, as promised.

[Eugene]

7. 87 killed or found dead in Iraq - Reuters Factbox

Source: Reuters

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, May 13
13 May 2007 16:55:51 GMT
Source: Reuters

May 13 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1530 GMT
on Sunday:

-snip-

* MAHMUDIYA - Gunmen killed six people and wounded eight others in
Mahmudiya, about 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

-snip-

BAGHDAD - The bullet-riddled bodies of 17 people were found in different
districts of Baghdad on Saturday, police said.

MAHMUDIYA - Gunmen attacked a flour mill, killing five workers and wounding
four in the town of Mahmudiya, about 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad,
police said.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IBO326947.htm

[maddezmom]

9. AP has the total at 137

The statement came on one of the deadliest days in the country in recent weeks, with at least 137 people killed or found dead. A suicide truck bomb tore through the offices of a Kurdish political party in northern Iraq, killing 50 people, and a car bombing in a crowded Baghdad market killed another 17.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070513/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;_ylt=Aj1ehKczD93FAG8iEtwJIgJvaA8F

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