RAMADI: Nine people were killed, including four foreigners, and 10 were wounded when a vehicle was targeted in a blast on Wednesday in the restive town of Ramadi in western Iraq and three US soldiers were killed in a rocket attack in the city of Balad, officials said.
“We have the bodies of five Iraqis and four foreigners,” said Mohammed Jalal, a doctor in the neighbouring town of Fallujah, 50 kilometres west of Baghdad. “In addition, 10 injured Iraqis were admitted to our hospital.”
The US military said that three US soldiers were killed and 25 people were wounded, including two foreign civilians in a rocket attack in Balad, 75 kilometres north of Baghdad. A military spokesman said air and ground forces responded to the suspected location from which the attack was launched. The deaths rose to 613 the number of US soldiers killed in action since the US-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, according to numbers from the Pentagon.
One Iraqi was shot dead and two foreign contractors wounded in a gunbattle when a convoy of several cars was ambushed near Baghdad airport, a senior military official said Wednesday.
Elsewhere, the head of security for oil fields in Kirkuk has been assassinated, Al Jazeera television reported on Wednesday. The television quoted Iraqi police as saying Ghazi Talabani was killed. It gave no further details.
Radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday told all members of his Mehdi Army militia who are not from Najaf to leave the city.
The announcement came a day after Iraq’s new president Sheikh Ghazi al-Yawar said Sadr could join national politics if he is found innocent of murder charges and agrees to disband his Mehdi Army militia.
“Members of the Mehdi Army who have agreed to make sacrifices are asked to return to their regions” of origin, said a brief statement from the cleric published in Najaf, 160 kilometres south of Baghdad.
Saboteurs blew another hole in a main Iraqi southern oil export pipeline on Wednesday, further damaging the network after two sabotage attacks earlier in the week that brought oil exports to a halt. It was uncertain when exports would resume. agencies
Reuters.
“We have the bodies of five Iraqis and four foreigners,” said Mohammed Jalal, a doctor in the neighbouring town of Fallujah, 50 kilometres west of Baghdad. “In addition, 10 injured Iraqis were admitted to our hospital.”
The US military said that three US soldiers were killed and 25 people were wounded, including two foreign civilians in a rocket attack in Balad, 75 kilometres north of Baghdad. A military spokesman said air and ground forces responded to the suspected location from which the attack was launched. The deaths rose to 613 the number of US soldiers killed in action since the US-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, according to numbers from the Pentagon.
One Iraqi was shot dead and two foreign contractors wounded in a gunbattle when a convoy of several cars was ambushed near Baghdad airport, a senior military official said Wednesday.
Elsewhere, the head of security for oil fields in Kirkuk has been assassinated, Al Jazeera television reported on Wednesday. The television quoted Iraqi police as saying Ghazi Talabani was killed. It gave no further details.
Radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday told all members of his Mehdi Army militia who are not from Najaf to leave the city.
The announcement came a day after Iraq’s new president Sheikh Ghazi al-Yawar said Sadr could join national politics if he is found innocent of murder charges and agrees to disband his Mehdi Army militia.
“Members of the Mehdi Army who have agreed to make sacrifices are asked to return to their regions” of origin, said a brief statement from the cleric published in Najaf, 160 kilometres south of Baghdad.
Saboteurs blew another hole in a main Iraqi southern oil export pipeline on Wednesday, further damaging the network after two sabotage attacks earlier in the week that brought oil exports to a halt. It was uncertain when exports would resume. agencies
Reuters.
