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Media: AFP
Byline: n/a
Date: 12 August 2006
BAGHDAD, Aug 12, 2006 (AFP) - Insurgent bombers launched two bomb attacks
against police patrols in Baghdad on Saturday amid a relative lull in
violence in Iraq.
Five officers were injured when a roadside bomb detonated in the Adhamiyah
district in the north of the city, but no-one was killed, a interior
ministry official said.
Another blast on a highway in the centre of the city missed a police convoy,
but injured three bystanders, he added.
Meanwhile, unidentified gunmen killed two former members of ousted Iraqi
leader Saddam Hussein's Baath party in Amara, a town in the mainly Shiite
south, which suffered greatly under his regime.
One victim, an irrigation engineer, was killed west of the town in a
drive-by shooting as he headed for work, police said. The second, a teacher,
was gunned down by an assassin on a motorcycle.
On Thursday, Iraq was shocked by a bloody attack outside a holy Shiite
shrine in the central city of Najaf in which suicide bomber blew up himself
and 35 bystanders in the shadow of the Imam Ali mausoleum.
Friday, however, was relatively free of large-scale attacks as Baghdad,
Najaf and many other areas imposed vehicle curfews during weekly Muslim
prayers.
Byline: n/a
Date: 12 August 2006
BAGHDAD, Aug 12, 2006 (AFP) - Insurgent bombers launched two bomb attacks
against police patrols in Baghdad on Saturday amid a relative lull in
violence in Iraq.
Five officers were injured when a roadside bomb detonated in the Adhamiyah
district in the north of the city, but no-one was killed, a interior
ministry official said.
Another blast on a highway in the centre of the city missed a police convoy,
but injured three bystanders, he added.
Meanwhile, unidentified gunmen killed two former members of ousted Iraqi
leader Saddam Hussein's Baath party in Amara, a town in the mainly Shiite
south, which suffered greatly under his regime.
One victim, an irrigation engineer, was killed west of the town in a
drive-by shooting as he headed for work, police said. The second, a teacher,
was gunned down by an assassin on a motorcycle.
On Thursday, Iraq was shocked by a bloody attack outside a holy Shiite
shrine in the central city of Najaf in which suicide bomber blew up himself
and 35 bystanders in the shadow of the Imam Ali mausoleum.
Friday, however, was relatively free of large-scale attacks as Baghdad,
Najaf and many other areas imposed vehicle curfews during weekly Muslim
prayers.