Ten people killed in Iraq violence
Thursday 19-05-2005
BAGHDAD: Gunmen shot dead Iraqi interior ministry official Brigadier Ibrahim Khamas as he left his home in Baghdad on Wednesday, police said, and Al Qaeda’s wing in Iraq claimed responsibility for the assassination in an Internet statement.
Police said the Khamas’s wife, who worked in the ministry’s criminal intelligence department, was wounded in the attack. Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi network Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed responsibility for the killing. “Your brothers in al Qaeda in Iraq set off this morning to pick off a major apostate and agent, one of America’s henchmen, the police chief Ibrahim Khamas. God made possible his assassination near the Diyala Bridge,” said the Qaeda statement.
In other violence, police said the seven Iraqi Turkmen captured in an ambush on a security convoy near Falluja were found dead on Wednesday, shot in the head and with their hands bound.
… Two Iraqi police were also killed in a suicide car bomb attack near the oil refinery town of Baiji, said police captain Ali Yousef. The bomb targeted a US-Iraqi convoy around 2300 GMT on the road near Siniya, he said.
… The shift towards more car bomb attacks is part of a wave of violence has killed over 400 Iraqis in the past three weeks and marks a change in tactics by an ever adapting insurgency, said the officer asking not to be named.
… As one indicator of the shift in tactics, the number of car bombs in Baghdad, including those discovered before insurgents could detonate them, is 126 since the end of February, including 21 so far this month, said the officer.
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Are the Americans deaf and blind? Do they switch the television channel whenever they see and hear the Iraqi people being killed on daily basis every few hours, just because of the presence of the Americans troops in that country?