25 more killed in Iraq violence
Friday 20-05-2005
BAGHDAD: Unidentified gunmen killed an Oil Ministry official on Thursday and escalating violence claimed another 18 lives, fuelling fears Iraq may be moving towards civil war. The oil official, Ali Hameed, was shot outside his home as he left for work, said a police official.
In other violence on Thursday, seven people were killed in clashes in the northern city of Mosul after insurgents attacked the house of a local Sunni Muslim politician, said witnesses and hospital officials.
Politician Fawwaz al-Jarba said his driver and three guards were among the dead. He said United States troops backed by helicopters responded to his request for help.
In Baghdad, a university professor was shot dead, an Iraqi soldier was killed in a suicide bombing and four other Iraqi soldiers were kidnapped. A roadside bomb also killed an American soldier in the capital, said the US military.
… Four more bodies were found on Thursday, this time just south of Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit. Police said they had been shot dead.
Meanwhile, a funeral service was held for Muhammad al-Allaq, a Shia cleric who was gunned down on Wednesday, said relatives. Top Sunni cleric Harith al-Dhari has publicly accused the Badr Brigades, the main Shia political party’s militia, of assassinating Sunni preachers.
… In Mosul, hospital officials said two people were killed when a bomb exploded prematurely in the car they were driving on a suicide mission. In the northern town of Baiji, four soldiers from the Iraqi army were kidnapped at dawn. Police said a roadside bomb killed two policemen in Baquba, and a police officer and his father were shot dead travelling in their car in Samarra. reuters
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I’m still trying to understand how has America’s man-made ideology of democracy through the barrel of the gun has helped the innocent Iraqi people?