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New York Times
May 5, 2008
Pg. 8
By Alissa J. Rubin
BAGHDAD — Four marines were killed in Anbar Province by a roadside bomb, and in Baghdad, the Iraqi president’s wife narrowly escaped an attack on her motorcade, officials said Sunday.
Hiro Ibrahim Ahmed, the wife of President Jalal Talabani, was in a motorcade heading to a cultural festival at the National Theater on Sunday, when a roadside bomb in the Karada district hit the car carrying her bodyguards. She was not wounded, but four of her bodyguards were hurt.
The death of the marines in Anbar, in an attack on Friday that the military reported Sunday, was one of the deadliest in months on American troops in the province. For much of the past 18 months, Anbar, once one of the most violent places in Iraq, has been mostly quiet. But recently there have been several suicide bombings and other attacks, primarily aimed at Iraqis who have joined the Awakening movement, groups of former fighters and tribal members who decided to work with the American military to fight Islamic extremists.
Clashes continued in the capital’s Sadr City district and nearby areas, with the American military reporting that it had killed nine “criminals” — five in Sadr City and four in the neighboring district of New Baghdad. In Sadr City, three of those killed were believed to have been preparing an attack on soldiers building a wall between the American-held southern part of the neighborhood and the northern section, held by Shiite militias.
In Baghdad, two bombs went off in succession in Nisour Square, in what appears to have been a coordinated attack on the deputy chief of the traffic police for the west side of Baghdad, according to witnesses.
Eight mortar shells struck the government’s Green Zone in Baghdad on Sunday night, according to an Interior Ministry official.
In Mosul, a journalist, Sarwa Abdul-Wahab, 35, was killed by gunmen as she was driving in the eastern part of the city. A spokesman for the journalists’ union in Baghdad said he was unsure whether Ms. Abdul-Wahab had been attacked because she was a journalist or for other reasons.
Iraqi employees of The New York Times contributed reporting from Baghdad and Mosul.
May 5, 2008
Pg. 8
By Alissa J. Rubin
BAGHDAD — Four marines were killed in Anbar Province by a roadside bomb, and in Baghdad, the Iraqi president’s wife narrowly escaped an attack on her motorcade, officials said Sunday.
Hiro Ibrahim Ahmed, the wife of President Jalal Talabani, was in a motorcade heading to a cultural festival at the National Theater on Sunday, when a roadside bomb in the Karada district hit the car carrying her bodyguards. She was not wounded, but four of her bodyguards were hurt.
The death of the marines in Anbar, in an attack on Friday that the military reported Sunday, was one of the deadliest in months on American troops in the province. For much of the past 18 months, Anbar, once one of the most violent places in Iraq, has been mostly quiet. But recently there have been several suicide bombings and other attacks, primarily aimed at Iraqis who have joined the Awakening movement, groups of former fighters and tribal members who decided to work with the American military to fight Islamic extremists.
Clashes continued in the capital’s Sadr City district and nearby areas, with the American military reporting that it had killed nine “criminals” — five in Sadr City and four in the neighboring district of New Baghdad. In Sadr City, three of those killed were believed to have been preparing an attack on soldiers building a wall between the American-held southern part of the neighborhood and the northern section, held by Shiite militias.
In Baghdad, two bombs went off in succession in Nisour Square, in what appears to have been a coordinated attack on the deputy chief of the traffic police for the west side of Baghdad, according to witnesses.
Eight mortar shells struck the government’s Green Zone in Baghdad on Sunday night, according to an Interior Ministry official.
In Mosul, a journalist, Sarwa Abdul-Wahab, 35, was killed by gunmen as she was driving in the eastern part of the city. A spokesman for the journalists’ union in Baghdad said he was unsure whether Ms. Abdul-Wahab had been attacked because she was a journalist or for other reasons.
Iraqi employees of The New York Times contributed reporting from Baghdad and Mosul.