5 Iraqi officers slain in central Iraq

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

5 Iraqi officers slain in central Iraq

By RAVI NESSMAN, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 19 minutes ago

BAGHDAD - Five Iraqi police officers were shot, killed and dumped
in a deserted field in central Iraq, and U.S. forces thwarted a
potentially devastating bombing attack in Baghdad, the police and
military said Saturday.

The bullet-riddled bodies of the five police officers, who were dressed
in civilian clothes, were discovered late Friday outside the city of Beiji,
155 miles north of Baghdad, police said.

Their ID documents showed they were from the turbulent city of Ramadi,
police said, and their killing underscored the danger facing Iraqi police
in the area, where insurgents routinely target Iraqis seen to be working
with the U.S.-led military forces.

In southern Baghdad, U.S. soldiers on a routine patrol Friday searched a
suspicious blue tanker truck and discovered it had been converted into a
large truck bomb, the military said.

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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070505/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

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Also: FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, May 5 - Reuters

[maddezmom]

1. Bomber kills 9 police recruits west of Baghdad

BAGHDAD, May 5 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed nine police recruits and wounded 13 others when he detonated his explosive-packed vest outside an Iraqi army base west of Baghdad on Saturday, an Iraqi army source said.

The blast occurred near the Abu Ghraib prison west in Anbar province. Another army source confirmed the suicide attack but had no precise casualty figures.

Insurgents have repeatedly targeted U.S.-trained Iraqi security forces and recruitment centres. They have recently stepped up attacks in Sunni Arab Anbar after many tribes began recruiting locals in a bid to expel al Qaeda militants from the province.

more:http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L05572160.htm

[Eugene]

2. 15 bodies found dumped across Baghdad - Reuters Factbox

Source: Reuters

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, May 5
05 May 2007 11:45:12 GMT
Source: Reuters

May 5 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1130 GMT
on Saturday:

* Denotes new or updated item.

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*KIRKUK - A roadside bomb killed one civilian and wounded three policemen
in central Kirkuk, police said.

*SHIRQAT - Gunmen killed a police Colonel in the town of Shirqat north
of Baghdad, police said.

*BAGHDAD - The bodies of 15 people were found dumped across Baghdad
on Friday, police said.

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Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L05506872.htm

[acmavm]

3. How desperate would a person have to be in order to apply for a job

as an Iraqi police officer?

I can't wrap my mind around that kind of desperation. It's suicide.

[maddezmom]

4. Headlines on CNN now, 11 bodies found in Baghdad, 2 dead in Karrada district bombing

3 killed in mortar strike on Baghdad soccer field, Suicide bomber kills 16, wounds 21 in Iraq

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/05/saturday/index.html