Iraqi violence kills at least 9 around Iraq, wounds another 40

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Forum Spin Doctor
Media: The Associated Press
Byline: n/a
Date: 26 September 2006


BAGHDAD, Iraq - A series of bomb explosions killed at least eight people and
wounded another 40 in Baghdad while on Tuesday police found the bodies of 13
men were found scattered around the capital, officials said.

Bomb attacks and shooting around Iraq brought the death toll Tuesday to at
least nine killed.

The first bomb was planted on a motorcycle and exploded near a restaurant in
downtown Baghdad's Andalus square. The dead included a traffic policeman,
Police Col. Abbas Mohammed Salman said.

In eastern Baghdad's Zayouna neighborhood, two police officers trying to
defuse a roadside bomb. The explosion wounded nine police officers and six
Iraqi soldiers, Police Lt. Ali Mitab said.

That explosion took place 70 meters (yards) from another blast that a few
minutes earlier had killed one Iraqi civilian and wounded another four,
police said.

Also in eastern Baghdad, two policemen and three civilians were injured when
a roadside bomb detonated next to a patrol. An soldier was injured in
central Baghdad when a bomb exploded next to an Iraqi army patrol.

Heart surgeon Razzaq Umran Ali was killed as he drove to Baghdad's Ibn
al-Bitar hospital where he worked, police said. He was shot by gunmen in
Baghdad's Mansour district, police said.

The bodies of 13 men, apparently victims of sectarian death squads, were
found scattered across the eastern part of Baghdad on Tuesday, police said.

The bullet-riddled bodies all showed signs of torture and had their hands
and feet bound, police Capt. Mohamed Abdul-Ghani said.

The men, who were in their 30s, had been dumped around several mixed
neighborhoods, Abdul-Ghani added. Accusations are being exchanged between
Sunnis and Shiites, the country's two major Muslim sects, that they run
death squads around Iraq and in the capital.

The Iraqi army also announced that two militants were killed and 82 arrested
around Iraq in teh day two days.
 
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