Iraq Watch: November 4, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A coordinated ambush in Buhriz, 35 miles north of Baghdad, left at least six Iraqi police dead and ten injured as Iraq's majority Shiite's began the three-day holiday of Eid al-Fitr (Eid), marking the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
The attack started with militants launching mortar rounds against a police checkpoint. The insurgents then drove up in at least eight cars and opened fire on the Iraqi police sparking a gunbattle.
Some reports say the attackers in Buhriz were disguised in women's clothing.
Separately, in Tuz Khormato, five Iraqi police commandos working with the Interior Ministry were killed in a roadside bombing. Four additional policemen were wounded in the bombing.
Elsewhere, a Task Force Baghdad soldier was killed Friday by an IED in eastern Baghdad while another U.S. soldier died from 'non-battle' related injuries late Thursday near Tallil the U.S. military announced on Friday.
The U.S. military also announced Friday that it killed five 'senior' al-Qaida in Iraq leaders in airstrikes last Saturday in Husaybah, west of the capital near the Syrian border. The five militant leaders were identified as: Abu Asil, Abu Raghad, Abu Talha, Abu Usama, and Abu Salman.
In the Dora section of southern Baghdad a roadside bomb killed three civilians and Tarijk Hasan, a former colonel in the Iraqi air force, was gunned down as he drove through the capital city.
A new message posted on the Internet today, purportedly from the terrorist group al-Qaida in Iraq, led by Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, reiterated its warning to foreign diplomats in Iraq stating, "We will not spare any effort in tracking them down and punishing them, whoever they are and wherever they are."
The attack started with militants launching mortar rounds against a police checkpoint. The insurgents then drove up in at least eight cars and opened fire on the Iraqi police sparking a gunbattle.
Some reports say the attackers in Buhriz were disguised in women's clothing.
Separately, in Tuz Khormato, five Iraqi police commandos working with the Interior Ministry were killed in a roadside bombing. Four additional policemen were wounded in the bombing.
Elsewhere, a Task Force Baghdad soldier was killed Friday by an IED in eastern Baghdad while another U.S. soldier died from 'non-battle' related injuries late Thursday near Tallil the U.S. military announced on Friday.
The U.S. military also announced Friday that it killed five 'senior' al-Qaida in Iraq leaders in airstrikes last Saturday in Husaybah, west of the capital near the Syrian border. The five militant leaders were identified as: Abu Asil, Abu Raghad, Abu Talha, Abu Usama, and Abu Salman.
In the Dora section of southern Baghdad a roadside bomb killed three civilians and Tarijk Hasan, a former colonel in the Iraqi air force, was gunned down as he drove through the capital city.
A new message posted on the Internet today, purportedly from the terrorist group al-Qaida in Iraq, led by Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, reiterated its warning to foreign diplomats in Iraq stating, "We will not spare any effort in tracking them down and punishing them, whoever they are and wherever they are."
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