Suicide truck bomb hits police in Iraq's Kirkuk

[maddezmom]

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KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber driving a truck packed with explosives hit a police station in central Kirkuk on Wednesday and residents reported many casualties, though police had no immediate details on the dead and wounded.

A police source said many buildings in the area suffered severe damage from the blast, but declined to confirm reports of casualties. One resident of the northern Iraqi city told Reuters he saw many casualties lying in the street and several buildings had collapsed.

Sitting atop one of the world's richest oil fields, Kirkuk is just outside the borders of the largely autonomous Kurdistan region and its population is a volatile mix of Kurds, Turkmen and Sunni and Shi'ite Arabs.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070117/wl_nm/iraq_kirkuk_blast_dc

Truck bomber hits police in Iraq's Kirkuk
17 Jan 2007 10:38:51 GMT
By Claudia Parsons

BAGHDAD, Jan 17 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber driving a truck packed with explosives hit a police station in central Kirkuk on Wednesday and residents reported many casualties in further violence after one of the bloodiest days in months.

A police source said three bodies had been found so far and there were 38 wounded, most of them critically. "There are still people under the rubble of the houses," the source said.

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A police source said many buildings in the area bombed in Kirkuk on Wednesday suffered severe damage from the blast and rescuers were still searching for victims.

One resident told Reuters he saw many casualties lying in the street and several buildings collapsed.

Just outside the borders of the largely autonomous Kurdistan region, Kirkuk's population is a volatile mix of Kurds, Turkmen and Sunni and Shi'ite Arabs.

more:http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PAR737382.htm

[lapfog_1]

1. I guess someone doesn't like Kurdish troops patrolling Baghdad - n/t

[malaise]

2. Freedom is not just on the march

It is spreading. Oh Fuck Bush!

[maddezmom]

3. Suicide truck bomb kills 10 in Iraq's Kirkuk

KIRKUK, Iraq, Jan 17 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber driving a truck packed with explosives killed 10 people and wounded 42 at a police station in central Kirkuk on Wednesday, police and a hospital source said.

Earlier, police and residents said several buildings had collapsed and victims were trapped under the rubble.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PAR743424.htm

[annabanana]

4. Is this one of the police stations that our troops are supposed

to LIVE IN during this new "embedded augmentation"? I seems to remember hearing that the surgers will not be living on fortified bases...

Someone tell me I'm wrong.

Please.

[antiimperialist]

5. suicide bomb in Sadr city market kills 11

breaking banner in MSNBC.
Violence will not end until we are out and Iraqis sort things out themselves.

[Eugene]

6. Reuters: More bombs as Iraq works on security, politics (Sadr City toll now 17)

More bombs as Iraq works on security, politics
17 Jan 2007 14:24:55 GMT
Source: Reuters

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By Mariam Karouny and Claudia Parsons

BAGHDAD, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Bombs and mortars hit Kirkuk and Baghdad on
Wednesday as the Iraqi government prepared to launch a security plan to stem
violence as part of what has been billed as a "last chance" to head off civil war.

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A day after one of the bloodiest days in weeks, a suicide bomber driving a truck
packed with explosives killed 10 people at a police station in central Kirkuk.

Another bomb ripped through a market in the Sadr City area of Baghdad, killing 15
and wounding 33, police said. Sadr City is the Shi'ite stronghold of the Mehdi Army,
a militia loyal to radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

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Police and residents in Kirkuk said several buildings had collapsed and, a police
source said, there were "still people under the rubble".

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Full article: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PAR737382.htm

Related: Suicide car bomb kills 17 in Baghdad - AP

[Eugene]

7. Reuters: Mortar, clashes in Baghdad's Haifa St. area

Mortar, clashes in Baghdad's Haifa St. area
17 Jan 2007 14:16:25 GMT
Source: Reuters

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BAGHDAD, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Several explosions which police sources said were
mortar rounds went off on Wednesday in the Haifa Street area of central Baghdad,
where U.S. and Iraqi forces staged a major offensive against Sunni rebels last
week.

There were no details on casualties.

Police said there were fierce clashes in the area after the mortars hit and the
fighting was still continuing.

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Full article: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PAR750535.htm

[maddezmom]

9. I thought they had pacified and cleared that area days ago

:eyes:

[rodeodance]

8. cnn Bombers kill 28 in Baghdad, Kirkuk and 2 US troops DIE

Bombers kill 28 in Baghdad, Kirkuk
POSTED: 10:34 a.m. EST, January 17, 2007
Story Highlights
• NEW: Schools face "intimidation campaign," U.N. report says
• NEW: Car bomb kills at least 17, wounds 35 in Sadr City
• Death toll in Kirkuk blast rises to at least 10
• U.S. military reports two U.S. soldier deaths in Anbar province

More on CNN TV: Are more troops in Iraq the answer? Former White House counterterrorism adviser Richard Clarke joins "The Situation Room," tonight at 7 ET.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Explosions in the Iraqi capital and the northern city of Kirkuk claimed 28 lives Wednesday, a day after 70 people were killed in a massive car bomb attack on Mustansiriya University in Baghdad.

The latest targets were the Kirkuk police station, where 10 people were killed, according to police, and the Shiite stronghold in Baghdad, Sadr City, where at least 17 people were killed, according to an Interior Ministry official.

In addition, a roadside bomb in central Baghdad killed a police officer on patrol and wounded two others, an Interior Ministry official said. (Watch how U.S. troops are handling the relentless cycle of violence Video)

In a grim statistic released Tuesday by the United Nations, more than 34,000 civilians were "violently killed" across Iraq in 2006, an average of 94 every day. The bimonthly report singled out sectarian violence as "a major cause for an ever-growing trend in displacement and migration of all Iraqis, as well as the targeting of various professional groups." (Full story)

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