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Media: Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Byline: N/A
Date: 19 August 2006
Body:
Baghdad - An explosive device killed two Iraqi soldiers and wounded two
others Saturday in an attack on an army patrol in the city of Diwaniya,
eyewitnesses reported.
Eyewitnesses told the Iraqi news agency al-Dar that unidentified assailants
planted the explosive device outside the home of Army Brigadier-General
Jameel al-Haji in the al-Jaza'er district of Diwaniya. The device was
detonated as an Iraqi army patrol drove by.
Iraqi military sources said that security forces later arrested three
suspects in an orchard near the al-Haji's home. The three were said to be
carrying materials used to make explosives. No further details were
immediately available about the attack.
Elsewhere in the country, members of a US army patrol shot dead one civilian
and injured another after coming under an Iraqi insurgent attack in central
Fallujah on Saturday, said security sources.
The sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that insurgents launched
rockets at a US army patrol in the city. The US troops then opened fire
arbitrarily in the vicinity resulting in the death of one civilian and the
injuring of another, they said.
An Iraqi police patrol rushed the two casualties to the Faluja General
Hospital, said the sources. The US army's Hummer patrol vehicle was
seriously damaged, said the sources.
Meanwhile in al-Maqdadiya, 110 kilometers north-east of Baghdad, gunmen
opened fire on a mini-bus that was carrying civilians on Sunday, said
security sources. The sources added that one Iraqi civilian was killed and
four others injured in the attack.
In an earlier incident, two Iraqi Kurdish villagers were killed and three
others wounded in a cross-border Iranian artillery and rocket attack on
villages in the autonomous northern region of Iraqi Kurdistan on Friday,
border patrol sources said Saturday.
The sources told dpa that on Friday the town of Qandil, near the Iran-Iraq
border, was the target of Iranian artillery fire for the third consecutive
day.
The sources added that Iraq's Kurdish villages of Kotsoi and Kani Shinka
were hit with Iranian Katyusha rockets on Friday morning.
Iranian artillery later pounded the Kurdish villages of Sina Mokka, Qarnaqa,
Sourdi, Kani Khatoun, and Kanya Rahsh, resulting in the deaths of two Kurds
and the wounding of three others, the sources said.
The sources also said that the Iranian artillery barrage also set fire to
several plots of agricultural land and killed livestock in the villages.
Iran has targeted several Kurdish villages near the Iraqi border, especially
in the mountainous Qandil region, on the suspicion that anti-Iranian Kurdish
fighters belonging to the Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan (PEJAK), have
been conducting cross-border raids into Iran from Iraqi Kurdistan.
Iran has been targeting PEJAK fighters and their bases in Iraqi Kurdistan,
while the Turkish army has been targeting the fighters and bases of the
anti-Turkish Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) near the same region in Iraq.
Byline: N/A
Date: 19 August 2006
Body:
Baghdad - An explosive device killed two Iraqi soldiers and wounded two
others Saturday in an attack on an army patrol in the city of Diwaniya,
eyewitnesses reported.
Eyewitnesses told the Iraqi news agency al-Dar that unidentified assailants
planted the explosive device outside the home of Army Brigadier-General
Jameel al-Haji in the al-Jaza'er district of Diwaniya. The device was
detonated as an Iraqi army patrol drove by.
Iraqi military sources said that security forces later arrested three
suspects in an orchard near the al-Haji's home. The three were said to be
carrying materials used to make explosives. No further details were
immediately available about the attack.
Elsewhere in the country, members of a US army patrol shot dead one civilian
and injured another after coming under an Iraqi insurgent attack in central
Fallujah on Saturday, said security sources.
The sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that insurgents launched
rockets at a US army patrol in the city. The US troops then opened fire
arbitrarily in the vicinity resulting in the death of one civilian and the
injuring of another, they said.
An Iraqi police patrol rushed the two casualties to the Faluja General
Hospital, said the sources. The US army's Hummer patrol vehicle was
seriously damaged, said the sources.
Meanwhile in al-Maqdadiya, 110 kilometers north-east of Baghdad, gunmen
opened fire on a mini-bus that was carrying civilians on Sunday, said
security sources. The sources added that one Iraqi civilian was killed and
four others injured in the attack.
In an earlier incident, two Iraqi Kurdish villagers were killed and three
others wounded in a cross-border Iranian artillery and rocket attack on
villages in the autonomous northern region of Iraqi Kurdistan on Friday,
border patrol sources said Saturday.
The sources told dpa that on Friday the town of Qandil, near the Iran-Iraq
border, was the target of Iranian artillery fire for the third consecutive
day.
The sources added that Iraq's Kurdish villages of Kotsoi and Kani Shinka
were hit with Iranian Katyusha rockets on Friday morning.
Iranian artillery later pounded the Kurdish villages of Sina Mokka, Qarnaqa,
Sourdi, Kani Khatoun, and Kanya Rahsh, resulting in the deaths of two Kurds
and the wounding of three others, the sources said.
The sources also said that the Iranian artillery barrage also set fire to
several plots of agricultural land and killed livestock in the villages.
Iran has targeted several Kurdish villages near the Iraqi border, especially
in the mountainous Qandil region, on the suspicion that anti-Iranian Kurdish
fighters belonging to the Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan (PEJAK), have
been conducting cross-border raids into Iran from Iraqi Kurdistan.
Iran has been targeting PEJAK fighters and their bases in Iraqi Kurdistan,
while the Turkish army has been targeting the fighters and bases of the
anti-Turkish Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) near the same region in Iraq.
