Nine Iraqis killed in attacks north of Baghdad(AFP)16 February 2005
SAMARRA - Nine Iraqis, most of them members of the security forces, were killed overnight in a string of attacks north of Baghdad, security and medical sources said on Wednesday.
Iraq’s police and army have been a frequent target of insurgents since the toppling of Saddam Hussein by US-led forces in April 2003 but the level of violence has dropped off since the landmark January 30 election.
An army colonel protecting oil fields from insurgents near the disputed northern city of Kirkuk was shot dead by armed men while he was on patrol, a fellow officier said.
Two fires broke out on oil pipelines in the same area.
“The first is under control and the other one not yet,” said an oil company source, adding that sabotage was the most likely cause of the fires.
Near Dhuluiyah, north of the capital Baghdad, three soldiers were killed and two others wounded by a bomb concealed in the burnt-out shell of car abandoned on the roadside.
In Dujail, also north of the capital, two Iraqi soldiers and an Iraqi contractor were killed in a mortar attack on an army base, police said.
Clashes broke out overnight in the restive town of Baquba, leaving one Iraqi policeman and two gunmen dead, security sources said. The fighting lasted most of the night.
Police also said two insurgents were killed and two others captured in clashes with US troops in the restive Sunni town of Samarra.
In the restive far northern town of Mosul, police Lieutenant Colonel Halab Abdelrahman escaped an assassination attempt that killed his driver and wounded his bodyguard, police said.
In other violence, an Iraqi woman was killed near the town of Tuz and her husband wounded, when Iraqi forces manning a checkpoint apparently opened fire on their vehicle.
“The couple’s vehicle was driving at high speed which is apparently why it was engaged,” police Captain Ahmed Bayaneddin.
And the US military announced on Wednesday that a soldier was killed in action on Tuesday in the restive western province of Al-Anbar.
The death brings to 1,457 the total number of US servicemen who have died since the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, according to Pentagon figures.
SAMARRA - Nine Iraqis, most of them members of the security forces, were killed overnight in a string of attacks north of Baghdad, security and medical sources said on Wednesday.
Iraq’s police and army have been a frequent target of insurgents since the toppling of Saddam Hussein by US-led forces in April 2003 but the level of violence has dropped off since the landmark January 30 election.
An army colonel protecting oil fields from insurgents near the disputed northern city of Kirkuk was shot dead by armed men while he was on patrol, a fellow officier said.
Two fires broke out on oil pipelines in the same area.
“The first is under control and the other one not yet,” said an oil company source, adding that sabotage was the most likely cause of the fires.
Near Dhuluiyah, north of the capital Baghdad, three soldiers were killed and two others wounded by a bomb concealed in the burnt-out shell of car abandoned on the roadside.
In Dujail, also north of the capital, two Iraqi soldiers and an Iraqi contractor were killed in a mortar attack on an army base, police said.
Clashes broke out overnight in the restive town of Baquba, leaving one Iraqi policeman and two gunmen dead, security sources said. The fighting lasted most of the night.
Police also said two insurgents were killed and two others captured in clashes with US troops in the restive Sunni town of Samarra.
In the restive far northern town of Mosul, police Lieutenant Colonel Halab Abdelrahman escaped an assassination attempt that killed his driver and wounded his bodyguard, police said.
In other violence, an Iraqi woman was killed near the town of Tuz and her husband wounded, when Iraqi forces manning a checkpoint apparently opened fire on their vehicle.
“The couple’s vehicle was driving at high speed which is apparently why it was engaged,” police Captain Ahmed Bayaneddin.
And the US military announced on Wednesday that a soldier was killed in action on Tuesday in the restive western province of Al-Anbar.
The death brings to 1,457 the total number of US servicemen who have died since the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, according to Pentagon figures.
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