You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Iraq
Two killed in car boom, local official assassinated
2008-04-23
(KUNA) -- A booby-trapped car explosion killed two people and injured 10 others in Mansour area, and an assassination of a local official in Harithiya suburb summed up violence which Baghdad witnessed on Tuesday.

Major-General Qassem Attah, spokesman for the law enforcement operation, told KUNA that the booby-trapped car explosion also caused damage to nearby private properties, adding that it occurred at an army check point in Masnour area. Meanwhile, a security source said, Hareth Hassan Kazami, an official in Harithiya area, west of Baghdad, was assassinated by masked gunmen. Also another group of masked gunmen attacked several security targets in Baghdad, but Sahwa (Awakening) council members and Iraqi soldiers engaged with the gunmen, arresting four and handed them to a US patrol near the place of the incident.
Posted by:Fred

00:00