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10-02-05, 17:28
At Least 10 Iraqi Police Killed South of Baghdad
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 10 Iraqi policemen were killed in a gun battle with insurgents south of Baghdad on Thursday, police sources said.
The battle, near the town of Salman Pak, about 65 km (40 miles) southeast of Baghdad, continued for several hours. Earlier police sources said at least 65 officers had been wounded.
The fighting was so fierce that police reinforcements were unable to reach many of the wounded or recover the dead, who were left lying in the road.
Police said several people had been arrested following the outbreak of violence, including three Iranians and two suspected insurgents from Saudi Arabia.
There have been a string of ambushes and gun fights in Salman Pak in the past several months. The city, which was home to weapons factories and a nuclear plant under Saddam Hussein, is at the eastern edge of an area dubbed the "Triangle of Death," a hotbed of insurgent activity.
Late last year, a convoy of Iraqi police driving from Basra in the south to Baghdad was ambushed just outside the town, killing at least four and wounding more than a dozen.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7595932
Merk op, dat de sunni triangle, inmiddels de triangle of death heet, wellicht heeft het er mee te maken met het feit dat die steeds groter wordt.
20 bodies of drivers found near Baghdad
The bodies of more than 20 Iraqi drivers and security forces from a convoy of government trucks carrying sugar have been found south of Baghdad, police said.
The drivers had all been burned in their vehicles. Police said they believed the convoy was attacked at least two days ago.
"This morning a police patrol was in the Suwairah region and found about 20 vehicles that were taking sugar to Baghdad. They were all burned," said a police official.
Suwairah is about 60 kilometres south of Baghdad.
As well as the drivers, two policemen and two soldiers who were protecting the convoy were also killed, the official told AFP.
"The bodies were rotting in the vehicles which indicates the attack was at least two days ago," he added.
-AFP
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200502/s1300365.htm
Steeds meer aanvallen vinden er plaats ten zuiden van Bagdad. Resultaten hiervan zijn in Bagdad zelf al duidelijk merkbaar. Prijzen voor benzine waren al enorm hoog, maar nu zijn ook de prijzen van eten enorm omhoog geschoten. Daarbij komt ook nog eens dat Amerikaanse militairen bezig zijn om Iraakse boederijen plat te branden, met als gevolg dat de oogst desastreus is dit jaar.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 10 Iraqi policemen were killed in a gun battle with insurgents south of Baghdad on Thursday, police sources said.
The battle, near the town of Salman Pak, about 65 km (40 miles) southeast of Baghdad, continued for several hours. Earlier police sources said at least 65 officers had been wounded.
The fighting was so fierce that police reinforcements were unable to reach many of the wounded or recover the dead, who were left lying in the road.
Police said several people had been arrested following the outbreak of violence, including three Iranians and two suspected insurgents from Saudi Arabia.
There have been a string of ambushes and gun fights in Salman Pak in the past several months. The city, which was home to weapons factories and a nuclear plant under Saddam Hussein, is at the eastern edge of an area dubbed the "Triangle of Death," a hotbed of insurgent activity.
Late last year, a convoy of Iraqi police driving from Basra in the south to Baghdad was ambushed just outside the town, killing at least four and wounding more than a dozen.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7595932
Merk op, dat de sunni triangle, inmiddels de triangle of death heet, wellicht heeft het er mee te maken met het feit dat die steeds groter wordt.
20 bodies of drivers found near Baghdad
The bodies of more than 20 Iraqi drivers and security forces from a convoy of government trucks carrying sugar have been found south of Baghdad, police said.
The drivers had all been burned in their vehicles. Police said they believed the convoy was attacked at least two days ago.
"This morning a police patrol was in the Suwairah region and found about 20 vehicles that were taking sugar to Baghdad. They were all burned," said a police official.
Suwairah is about 60 kilometres south of Baghdad.
As well as the drivers, two policemen and two soldiers who were protecting the convoy were also killed, the official told AFP.
"The bodies were rotting in the vehicles which indicates the attack was at least two days ago," he added.
-AFP
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200502/s1300365.htm
Steeds meer aanvallen vinden er plaats ten zuiden van Bagdad. Resultaten hiervan zijn in Bagdad zelf al duidelijk merkbaar. Prijzen voor benzine waren al enorm hoog, maar nu zijn ook de prijzen van eten enorm omhoog geschoten. Daarbij komt ook nog eens dat Amerikaanse militairen bezig zijn om Iraakse boederijen plat te branden, met als gevolg dat de oogst desastreus is dit jaar.