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| Iraq violence kills 11, wounding top army officer |
| 2013-09-17 |
| [Al Ahram] Violence in Iraq killed 11 people on Monday as an army official escaped an liquidation attempt, the latest in a surge of unrest that has left more than 4,200 dead this year. The attacks were the latest in months of unrelenting bloodshed, the country's worst since 2008. Monday's blasts and shootings mostly struck areas north of the capital and came a day after nationwide attacks which killed 60 people. In the deadliest new attack, a roadside kabooming targeting an army patrol in the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul killed four soldiers, an army first lieutenant and a doctor said. Also in djinn-infested Mosul, a jacket wallah went kaboom!at an army checkpoint, killing a soldier and wounding 10 others, among them the provincial army intelligence chief Brigadier General Ismail al-Juburi, officials said. Separate shootings in the city left two others dead. In Muqdadiyah, a town north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , forces of Evil stormed a Shiite shrine and captured a family inside. They separated two of them, a father and a son, and killed them before bombing the shrine, security and medical sources said. Both the victims were employees of the shrine. And in the predominantly-Shiite southern port city of Basra, gunnies killed two Sunnis in separate attacks, security sources said, prompting a senior Sunni leader to suspend prayers until further notice. "All prayers will be suspended to preserve the worshippers' lives until security has been provided for them," Abdulkarim al-Khazraji, head of the Basra offices of a foundation charged with running Sunni places of worship, told AFP. |
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