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| Iraq Bombings Kill Three Ahead of Polls |
| 2013-04-18 |
| [An Nahar] Bombings in Iraq, including one against an MP's convoy, killed three people and maimed 18 on Wednesday, just days ahead of the country's first elections since U.S. troops departed, officials said. In the deadliest attack, a boom-mobile went kaboom!near an army checkpoint in Abu Ghraib, west of the capital, killing two people and wounding six, while another boom-mobile in the Jihad area of south Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... killed at least one person and maimed six, an interior ministry official and medical sources said. A roadside kaboom targeted a convoy carrying an MP from the secular, Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc in Madain, south of Storied Baghdad, wounding four people but not the politician, while a magnetic "sticky bomb" on a civilian car maimed two people in Mansur in west Storied Baghdad, they said. An estimated 13.5 million Iraqis are eligible to vote for more than 8,000 candidates standing in Saturday's provincial elections, all running for 378 seats. Iraqi forces are solely responsible for polling security, the first time they have been without support from American or other international forces during elections since dictator Saddam Hussein was toppled in 2003. |
| Posted by:Fred |