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Iraq
Iraq Violence Kills 11
2013-05-24
[An Nahar] Attacks in Iraq on Thursday killed 11 people, including four soldiers, officials said, the latest in a wave of violence that has left 420 people dead so far this month.

Gunmen attacked a checkpoint in Taji, north of Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
, killing the four soldiers and wounding five others, security and medical officials said.

Near Baquba, also north of the capital, a roadside kaboom in a market killed four people and maimed two, while gunnies killed two police and maimed two others in another attack.

Gunmen also killed a civilian in the north Iraq city of djinn-infested Mosul, police and a doctor said.

And in Tikrit, another city north of Storied Baghdad, a roadside kaboom went kaboom! near a police patrol, wounding two coppers.

Thursday's attacks come a day after 22 people were killed in violence, among them were 12 rubbed out at a Storied Baghdad brothel and eight Death Eaters killed by security forces.
Posted by:Fred

#2  Well, we tried.
Posted by: Threase Flusort9681   2013-05-24 20:19  

#1  Iraq returns to its' natural Islamic state
Posted by: Frank G   2013-05-24 10:04  

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