Iraq Watch: September 16, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The town of Tuz Khormato bore the brunt of Iraq's relentless Sunni-led insurgency on Friday with a suicide car bomb exploding outside a Shiite mosque in the city 50 miles south of Kirkuk.
The car bomb went off during Jumuah, or traditional mid-afternoon Friday prayers, near the Hussainiyat al-Rasoul al-Azam mosque. At least 12 people were killed and 23 others injured in the explosion. The blast also destroyed several nearby buildings and cars.
In another sectarian attack against the majority Shiites, Sheik Fadil al-Lami - a cleric at the Iman Ali mosque - was gunned down by insurgents in the Sadr City district of Baghdad. And in Mosul, Hikmat Hussein Ali Mosili, an aide to Iraq's most powerful Shiite religious figure - Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, was assassinated in a bombing according to The Washington Post.
In Iskandariya, 30 miles south of the capital, gunmen broke into the local mayor's house killing him and four of his bodyguards.
Three people were killed and 13 more were injured when insurgents opened fire on a group of day laborers in the capital city's New Baghdad neighborhood.
Near Haswa, just south of Baghdad, three Iraqi police officers were killed and four wounded when a car bomb exploded next to their police patrol. Four Iraqi soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb attack in Khalidiya.
Meanwhile, the U.S. military announced the death of a II MEF soldier who was killed in an indirect fire attack yesterday near Ramadi.
The car bomb went off during Jumuah, or traditional mid-afternoon Friday prayers, near the Hussainiyat al-Rasoul al-Azam mosque. At least 12 people were killed and 23 others injured in the explosion. The blast also destroyed several nearby buildings and cars.
In another sectarian attack against the majority Shiites, Sheik Fadil al-Lami - a cleric at the Iman Ali mosque - was gunned down by insurgents in the Sadr City district of Baghdad. And in Mosul, Hikmat Hussein Ali Mosili, an aide to Iraq's most powerful Shiite religious figure - Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, was assassinated in a bombing according to The Washington Post.
In Iskandariya, 30 miles south of the capital, gunmen broke into the local mayor's house killing him and four of his bodyguards.
Three people were killed and 13 more were injured when insurgents opened fire on a group of day laborers in the capital city's New Baghdad neighborhood.
Near Haswa, just south of Baghdad, three Iraqi police officers were killed and four wounded when a car bomb exploded next to their police patrol. Four Iraqi soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb attack in Khalidiya.
Meanwhile, the U.S. military announced the death of a II MEF soldier who was killed in an indirect fire attack yesterday near Ramadi.
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