Iraq Watch: September 14, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Wednesday was an extremely bloody day, even by Iraqi standards, as a series of some 12 car bombs exploded in and around the capital city of Baghdad leaving over 150 people dead and another 550 wounded.
The attacks started shortly after dawn when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden van near a group of day laborers in the capital's largly Shiite district of Kazimiyah. The early morning blast killed at least 112 people and injured more than 200.
In Baghdad's northern district of Shula a suicide car bomb exploded next to an Iraqi army convoy killing at least four and wounding 22.
In Azamiyah, also in northern Baghdad, gunmen killed two top police officials along with two other Iraqi police officers. As rescue workers arrived at the scene of the shooting a car bomb exploded killing an additional four Iraqi policemen and three soldiers.
Three Iraqi soldiers were killed in a separate suicide car bombing near the capital's western Adel neighborhood.
Four other Iraqi soldiers were killed along with two civilians in a suicide car bomb attack on an Iraqi army base in central Baghdad. The blast also left 46 people wounded.
Another suicide car bomber targeting a U.S. military patrol in northwestern Baghdad killed four Iraqi civilians and injured 10 others.
At least 11 U.S. soldiers were injured in today's attacks according to AFP.
Late today at least two people were killed and over 50 injured in an insurgent mortar strike south of Baghdad.
The terrorist group al-Qaida in Iraq, lef by Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, claimed responsibility for many of Wednesday's deadly attacks through statements posted on the web. Zarqawi also declared an 'all out war' against Iraqi Shiites and anybody collaborating with the Iraqi government in an audio tape released late Wednesday.
North of Baghdad in Taji, at least 17 men from the Sunni Tameem tribe were rounded up overnight and executed by gunmen wearing Iraqi police uniforms. In further sectarian violence, Shiite tribe leader Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Aboud Al-Ambagi was assassinated along with his nephew in Baquba, 20 miles north of Baghdad.
The attacks started shortly after dawn when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden van near a group of day laborers in the capital's largly Shiite district of Kazimiyah. The early morning blast killed at least 112 people and injured more than 200.
In Baghdad's northern district of Shula a suicide car bomb exploded next to an Iraqi army convoy killing at least four and wounding 22.
In Azamiyah, also in northern Baghdad, gunmen killed two top police officials along with two other Iraqi police officers. As rescue workers arrived at the scene of the shooting a car bomb exploded killing an additional four Iraqi policemen and three soldiers.
Three Iraqi soldiers were killed in a separate suicide car bombing near the capital's western Adel neighborhood.
Four other Iraqi soldiers were killed along with two civilians in a suicide car bomb attack on an Iraqi army base in central Baghdad. The blast also left 46 people wounded.
Another suicide car bomber targeting a U.S. military patrol in northwestern Baghdad killed four Iraqi civilians and injured 10 others.
At least 11 U.S. soldiers were injured in today's attacks according to AFP.
Late today at least two people were killed and over 50 injured in an insurgent mortar strike south of Baghdad.
The terrorist group al-Qaida in Iraq, lef by Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, claimed responsibility for many of Wednesday's deadly attacks through statements posted on the web. Zarqawi also declared an 'all out war' against Iraqi Shiites and anybody collaborating with the Iraqi government in an audio tape released late Wednesday.
North of Baghdad in Taji, at least 17 men from the Sunni Tameem tribe were rounded up overnight and executed by gunmen wearing Iraqi police uniforms. In further sectarian violence, Shiite tribe leader Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Aboud Al-Ambagi was assassinated along with his nephew in Baquba, 20 miles north of Baghdad.
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