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| Iraq |
| Militants attack mosque in south Baghdad |
| 2007-01-20 |
| (KUNA) -- Unknown gunmen attacked a Shiite holy site in south Baghdad on Friday, leaving three guards killed or injured, Iraqi police sources said. A security source at the Iraqi Interior Ministry told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that unidentified militants attacked the Shiite Al-Sadreen Mosque in the Street 60 at Dawra in south Baghdad, killing two guards and wounding another, before detonating bomb explosives there. Meanwhile, a chief Iraqi tourism official was assassinated in front of his house in Baghdad Friday morning, an Iraqi police source said. Trucks carrying supplies to the US army in Iraq came under an armed attack near Al-Mushaheda in north Baghdad, an Iraqi police source said, pointing out that a truck driver was kidnapped by militants during the attack. In the meantime, unknown gunmen killed a mosque imam in Kirkuk, while a Kurdish Peshmerga fighter was killed and two others were injured in a bomb explosion near Irbil in north Iraq. An Iraqi police source told KUNA that militants shot dead a mosque imam in Al-Orouba in Kirkuk. In a related development, a chief Iraqi army officer escaped an attempt on his life when his convoy came under a bomb attack on the Al-Rashad-Kirkuk road, southwest of Kirkuk, the source said, noting that only one vehicle was slightly damaged in the attack, but no casualties were reported. |
| Posted by:Fred |