15 killed and 80 wounded in Baghdad car-bombing
Friday 13-05-2005
BAGHDAD: 15 people were killed and 80 other were injured when a car bomb exploded on a busy road here on Thursday morning, said police and hospital sources.
Kindi hospital medics said they had received the 12 bodies, three of them women, and 76 injured people following the blast in eastern Jadida district. Another three dead and eight wounded were taken to Ibn-Anafees hospital. An Interior Ministry official said the blast was the work of a suicide bomber. A second bomb, planted in a parked car, exploded three hours later in the city’s western area as a US military convoy drove by, said the official, adding that it was not known if any US soldiers were hurt but five Iraqi civilians were wounded in the attack in the Khadra district.
… A third car bomb struck a police station in Kirkuk, killing one civilian and wounding two. Two more civilians and a policeman were wounded in two more bomb blasts. Police chief General Turhan Yusef said the explosions occurred in areas predominantly inhabited by Kurds.
In further violence, security officials said that a general in Iraq’s newly formed army and a police colonel were shot dead in separate incidents in Baghdad. Near Baiji, four Iraqi soldiers died in overnight fighting with militants.
In Samarra, two Iraqi soldiers were killed by a bomb blast near a checkpoint on the outskirts of town. And two bakery employees were shot dead in the north of the town. Near Charkat, two policemen and a civilian were killed in clashes with militants late on Wednesday. Thirteen more soldiers were wounded in the fighting.
http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_13-5-2005_pg7_2
Do people remember before the start of the war, the Iraqi people promising to ‘fight the Americans with sticks and stones to defend their land’? I guess the Iraqi people didn’t lie!