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Iraq: Dozens Kidnapped, Killed, Wounded

by juan cole (reposted)
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Dozens Kidnapped, Killed, Wounded


A car bomb wounded 11 in an attack on police in the norther part of the city of Hilla.

Guerrillas killed two US soldiers in separate incidents and wounded 3, at an installation near to Baghdad.

Three guerrilla cells kidnapped 24 Iraqis in Baghdad on Tuesday, from 2 electronics shops and a money changing stall.

Guerrilla violence killed 9 and wounded 29 in separate incidents around the country.

The US military imposed a curfew on the oil city of Beiji north of Baghdad on Tuesday.

Halliburton's KRB division "universally failed to provide adequate cost information as required." according to a US government report, while it racked up billions in no-bid contracts.

Wanting to increase the number of Sunni Arabs in the Iraqi armed forces and being able to do so are not the same thing.

The US tried to get a message to Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani on Tuesday, asking him to intervene to resolve the gridlock in the formation of a new Iraqi government.

Eric Haney, a founding member of the Delta Force anti-terrorist unit, has denounced the Iraq War as an "utter debacle," and has blamed widespread US use of torture to the sadism of Dick Cheney, who he says seems to enjoy it. When people like Haney talk like this, it is probably over with.

posted by Juan @ 3/29/2006 06:21:00 AM   

§Several die in Baghdad store attack
by ALJ
Attackers wearing Iraqi police commando uniforms have killed at least eight people and wounded three in a raid on an electronics store in western Baghdad, police sources say.

A hospital source put the toll at nine - three women and six men - from Wednesday's raid on al-Ibtikar Trade Contracting Company in the relatively affluent Mansour neighbourhood.

The attackers arrived at the store in five black BMWs in the morning, police Lieutenant Maitham Abdul-Razzaq said.

The motive of the attack was not known. The assailants burned part of the building and appeared to have taken no money, Abdul-Razzaq said.

The past week has seen a spate of attacks and robberies by uniformed raiders on electronics stores and other businesses in the city.

On Monday and Tuesday, 35 people were abducted in four attacks, two of them on electronics dealers. The fate of those kidnapped is unknown.

Since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and the end of international sanctions three years ago, Baghdad has seen big demand for previously unattainable consumer goods, at least among that portion of the population not living in deep poverty.

On Tuesday, police said raiders in police uniform got away with more than $50,000 in US dollars and Iraqi dinars from a currency exchange office.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/38993057-04FA-4A59-B28C-9AFFB4D9AE54.htm
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