24 Iraqi Members of Two Families Massacred by Gunmen Wearing Army Uniform, a Week After the Maliki Warning

24 Iraqi Members of Two Families Massacred by Gunmen Wearing Army Uniform, a Week After the Maliki Warning

April 3, 2010

Aljazeera tv station reported that 24 people were massacred south of Baghdad today by gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniform. This comes about a week after prime minister Maliki demanded an election recount. He also warned that if the recount does not happen, sectarian violence may come back.

Al-Iraqia coalition of Iyad Allawi considered Maliki's warning as a threat of the return to sectarian violence to continue control over the country.

This massacre could be the start of a new round of the orchestrated "creative chaos", referred to in the media as "sectarian violence," which allowed the Maliki coalition to rule Iraq, under the US occupation.

Gunmen shoot dead 24 people south of Baghdad

April 3, 2010 - 07:40:49

BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq:

Twenty-four civilians were killed in an attack waged by gunmen on a village in Hawr Rajab area, the south Baghdad district of al-Mahmoudiya, according to a senior security official on Saturday.

“Unidentified gunmen attacked on Friday night the village of al-Bu Sayfi and shot down 24 people, including five women and a number of sahwa (awakening) tribal fighters and security personnel,” Qassem Atta, the official spokesman for the Baghdad Operations Command (BOC), told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

“A curfew was announced in the area as a search raid launched resulted in the arrest of 17 suspects,” Atta added.

Meanwhile, another security source told Aswat al-Iraq that the gunmen “were clad in military uniform,” not giving further information.

The south Baghdad areas of al-Radwaniya, al-Mahmoudiya and al-Yousufiya were the theater of several mass killings that claimed the lives of hundreds of Iraqis.

AmR (P)

Policeman, civilian wounded in Kirkuk blast

April 3, 2010 - 12:21:25

KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq:

Two people, one of them a policeman, were wounded in an improvised explosive device blast southwest of Kirkuk on Saturday, a senior security official in the city said.

“An IED blast targeted a patrol of the Kirkuk Emergency Police near the fuel station in al-Khadraa neighborhood, southwest of the city, leaving a patrolman and a civilian who happened to be near the explosion scene wounded,” Brig. Sarhad Qader, the director of the Kirkuk Districts Police Department (KDPD), told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

The oil-rich Kirkuk, a city of mixed Turkmen, Kurdish and Arab population, lies 250 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

AmR (P)

7 wounded in Hilla blast

April 3, 2010 - 10:38:49

BABEL / Aswat al-Iraq:

Seven civilians were wounded in an improvised explosive device attack that targeted a passenger bus north of al-Hilla city on Saturday, a local police source in Babel said.

“An IED went off on Saturday near a bus boarding civilian passengers in al-Sadda suburb, (40 km) north of Hilla, wounding seven of them,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

Hilla, the capital city of Babel province, lies 100 km south of Baghdad.

AmR (P)

2 children killed, 2 wounded in blast near Kirkuk

April 3, 2010 - 09:00:05

KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq: Two children were killed and two others wounded when an explosive charge went off southwest of Kirkuk city on Saturday, according to a senior security official.

“The charge went off on Saturday morning in the area of Dor al-Rai, al-Moltaqa suburb, (25 km) southwest of Kirkuk, leaving two children killed and two others wounded,” Brig. Sarhad Qader, the director of the Kirkuk Districts Police Department (KDPD), told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

“Investigations are underway to find out whether that charge was emplaced recently or has been left from the former Iraqi army’s time,” Qader added.

The oil-rich Kirkuk, a city of mixed Kurdish, Turkmen and Arab population, lies 250 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

AmR (P)

Woman wounded in blast targeting Iraqi army in Mosul

April 2, 2010 - 07:30:41

NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq:

A woman was wounded in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast that targeted an Iraqi army patrol in eastern Mosul on Friday, a police source in Ninewa said.

“An IED attack targeted an Iraqi army patrol in al-Darkazliya area, eastern Mosul, wounding a woman who happened to be near the attack site,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

“The army soldiers imposed a siege on the scene and launched a search raid on nearby houses,” the source added.

Mosul, the capital city of Ninewa province, lies 405 km north of Baghdad.

AmR (P)

IED kills, injures 3 family members in Jalawlaa

April 2, 2010 - 12:20:17

DIALA / Aswat al-Iraq:

A man and his son were killed and the wife were wounded in an improvised explosive device blast in Jalawlaa district in Diala, a security source said on Friday.

“An explosive charge went off on Friday near a civilian vehicle in Tabj region in Jalawlaa, southwest of Khanaqin, killing the driver and his son and seriously wounding his wife,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

“Security forces rushed to the scene and arrested a suspected man,” he added.

Khanaqin lies 155 northeast of Baaquba, the capital of Diala province, which lies 57 km northeast of Baghdad.

SH (P)

Civilian, child injured by roadside bomb in Tikrit

April 1, 2010 - 10:04:50

TIKRIT / Aswat al-Iraq:

One civilian and a child were wounded on Thursday in a roadside bomb explosion in central Tikrit, according to a police source.

“The bomb exploded this morning (April 1) targeting a U.S. vehicle patrol in al-Arbayeen street in central Tikrit,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

“The blast wounded a citizen and a child and damaged the U.S. vehicle,” he added.

Tikrit, the capital of Salah El-Din, lies 175 km north of Baghdad.

SH (P)/SR

Health ministry’s official gunned down in Baghdad

April 1, 2010 - 07:28:55

BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq:

Unknown gunmen killed an official of the health ministry late Wednesday in western Baghdad, a police source said Thursday. “The gunmen stormed the house of deputy director of the health ministry, Mohammad Jalab Ahmad, in al-Shamasiya region in western Baghdad,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “They shot and killed him and fled to unknown place,” the source added.

SH (P)

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