Iraq Watch: August 23, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A day after delaying the voting on Iraq's proposed draft constitution lawmakers attempted to resolve the remaining key issues still dividing the nation and its diverse ethnic and religious factions. The next official negotiations are scheduled for Wednesday morning in Baghdad's heavily guarded Green Zone.
Insurgent violence continued on Tuesday with attacks reported thoughout the country.
At the Diyala Provincial Joint Coordination Center in Baquba, 35 miles northeast of the capital, a suicide bomber detonated his device killing at least seven people, including a U.S. soldier and an American contractor. Nine other U.S. soldiers were wounded in the blast which occurred at 12:50 p.m.
The notorious terrorist organization, al-Qaida in Iraq, led by Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, claimed responsibility for the Baquba attack through an internet statement.
Three car bombs targeting U.S. forces in the western city of Ramadi exploded in an apparently coordinated insurgent attack according to Reuters. The first car bomb blew up next to a passing American convoy near the center of the predominately Sunni city. Shortly after the first blast, a suicide truck bomber rammed into a building frequently used by U.S. forces on the edge of the city causing part of the structure to collapse. A third car bomb exploded as U.S. forces were arriving to secure the scene of the second blast.
The U.S. military had no immediate word on the incidents in the city located about 60 miles west of Baghdad.
North of the southern Shiite holy city of Najaf in Haydariya, two Iraqi policemen were killed and a third wounded in clashes with insurgents.
Also to the south, in Basra, Zaiki Ibrahim, a former Iraqi army general under Saddam Hussein was killed by gunmen after having been kidnapped three days ago.
Meanwhile, the U.S. military announced the deaths of two American service members today. One marine was killed by an IED near the volatile city of Fallujah yesterday. Another marine was killed on Sunday near Al Karmah while conducting combat operations.
Three bodyguards of Iraqi Environment Minister Nermeen Othman were injured when insurgents opened fire on her convoy in an assassination attempt as she traveled near Oudhaim in northern Iraq.
Insurgent violence continued on Tuesday with attacks reported thoughout the country.
At the Diyala Provincial Joint Coordination Center in Baquba, 35 miles northeast of the capital, a suicide bomber detonated his device killing at least seven people, including a U.S. soldier and an American contractor. Nine other U.S. soldiers were wounded in the blast which occurred at 12:50 p.m.
The notorious terrorist organization, al-Qaida in Iraq, led by Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, claimed responsibility for the Baquba attack through an internet statement.
Three car bombs targeting U.S. forces in the western city of Ramadi exploded in an apparently coordinated insurgent attack according to Reuters. The first car bomb blew up next to a passing American convoy near the center of the predominately Sunni city. Shortly after the first blast, a suicide truck bomber rammed into a building frequently used by U.S. forces on the edge of the city causing part of the structure to collapse. A third car bomb exploded as U.S. forces were arriving to secure the scene of the second blast.
The U.S. military had no immediate word on the incidents in the city located about 60 miles west of Baghdad.
North of the southern Shiite holy city of Najaf in Haydariya, two Iraqi policemen were killed and a third wounded in clashes with insurgents.
Also to the south, in Basra, Zaiki Ibrahim, a former Iraqi army general under Saddam Hussein was killed by gunmen after having been kidnapped three days ago.
Meanwhile, the U.S. military announced the deaths of two American service members today. One marine was killed by an IED near the volatile city of Fallujah yesterday. Another marine was killed on Sunday near Al Karmah while conducting combat operations.
Three bodyguards of Iraqi Environment Minister Nermeen Othman were injured when insurgents opened fire on her convoy in an assassination attempt as she traveled near Oudhaim in northern Iraq.
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