Car bombs kill 15 in southern Iraq town

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Car bombs kill 15 in southern Iraq town

38 minutes ago

BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Two car bombs killed 15 people and wounded
32 in the southern Iraqi town of Qurna on Friday, hospital officials said.

Police said the blasts happened in quick succession. They said a bus
exploded in a bus terminal in one attack while in the other a car blew
up in a market.

Qurna is north of Basra, Iraq's second largest city. Car bombings are
not as common in the Shi'ite-dominated southern region as they are
elsewhere in Iraq.

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[uppityperson]

1. k&r for Iraqis

[maddezmom]

2. Iraq gunmen kidnap police chief's children, kill 14

Iraq gunmen kidnap police chief's children, kill 14
08 Jun 2007 06:33:31 GMT
Source: Reuters
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Iraq in turmoil
More BAGHDAD, June 8 (Reuters) - Gunmen attacked the house of a senior police official in Diyala province on Friday, killing 14 people including his wife, and kidnapped his four children, police sources said.

They said the two brothers of Colonel Ali Delyan Ahmed, the head of police in Baquba north of Baghdad, were among the dead.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KAR123332.htm

[maddezmom]

3. Professors in Iraq to get bodyguards

Professors in Iraq to get bodyguards

KARBALA, Iraq (AFP) - Professors in Iraq's Shiite holy city of Karbala will be provided with bodyguards after receiving death threats, the university president said on Thursday, a day after two more teachers were gunned down in northern Baghdad.

"The governor of Karbala province has decided to allocate a bodyguard to each professor following murder threats," Mufid Jalil Awdh told journalists after a meeting with the governor.

He said the 350 students at the university, as well as the professors, would also be allowed to carry arms if they wished.

"The governor also ordered that the university be ringed by concrete barriers and that extra police be deployed in the area of the university and a residential complex for professors," Awdh said.

Academics, doctors, engineers and other professionals have been targeted by a bloody insurgency and by sectarian violence in the years since the 2003 overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

http://www.brunei-online.com/bb/fri/jun8w12.htm
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[Eugene]

4. Car bomb near Iraq mosque kills 10 -police

Source: Reuters

Car bomb near Iraq mosque kills 10 -police
08 Jun 2007 10:46:36 GMT
Source: Reuters

(Updates death toll)

KIRKUK, Iraq, June 8 (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded outside
a Shi'ite mosque in the northern Iraqi town of Dakok just after
Friday prayers, killing 10 people and wounding 10, police said.

A senior Kirkuk police official, Brigadier Sahat Qader, said the
mosque had been seriously damaged in the blast.

Dakok is about 30 km southwest of Kirkuk, a city disputed by
Arabs, ethnic Kurds and Turkmen. Settling its final status is
one of the most sensitive issues in Iraq.


Link: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL838576.htm

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Also: FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, June 8 - Reuters

[maddezmom]

5. Two double bombings in Iraq kill 35

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Two double bomb attacks killed at least 35 people in Iraq on Friday, while overnight gunmen raided the home of a police chief, massacring his wife, brother and 12 bodyguards and seizing his children.

Seven other people were killed in a series of attacks around the country raising the day's toll to at least 42.

A twin bomb attack on a Shiite mosque near the northern oil city of Kirkuk killed at least 19 people and wounded 22, police and medical officials said.

In another dual attack, near the southern Iraqi city of Basra, 16 people were killed and 32 wounded.

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