Iraq Today: War News for Monday, April Nineteen, 2010

Name up of the legal game prison for Sunnis discovered in Baghdad: Iraqi panel orders vote recount in Baghdad: Taliban increase for summer showdown: Reported security incidents Baghdad: #1: The policeman was once wounded in an improvised explosive device (IED) attack in western Baghdad though to Sunday, a neighborhood security source said. “An IED went off close to a police patrol in al-Ghazaliya neighborhood, wounding a soldier,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. Diyala Prv: #1: A magnetic bomb which was stuck to a parked civilian automobile detonated throughout the major marketplace in Anasfiyah neighbourhood, central Baquba, Sunday, killing one girl plus seriously injuring one man. Kirkuk: #1: A police brigadier survived an assassination attempt on Monday once he came back under gunmen’s hearth in central Kirkuk city. “The officer and his motive force were wounded,” a native police source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. Mosul: #1: Seven civilians were wounded when a bomb went off on Monday in central Mosul city. “The blast attempted to focus on a police patrol in central Mosul,” a local police source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. #2: Armed men broke back into a own residence in Bab al Beedh neighbourhood, central Mosul and shot and killed one man and three ladies who were inside the house. #3: Armed men threw a hand-crafted bomb at a military checkpoint in Darghazliyah neighbourhood, east Mosul, injuring one civilian. #4: Armed men opened fire upon a police patrol in Mashahdah neighbourhood, west Mosul, injuring two law enforcement officials. #5: Armed men wounded two retired senior army officials once they left a mosque in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. Afghanistan: “The Forgotten War” #1: A bomb attack in an exceedingly restive Pakistani tribal space on Monday destroyed two tankers carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan, local officials said. The bomb planted under one tanker exploded near the village of Takhtabeg in the lawless Khyber tribal district, turning the vehicle into a massive ball of flames, administration official Rehan Gul Khattak said. Six individuals were injured. The second one tanker and a merchandise truck passing by additionally caught fire and the final blaze spread to a petroleum pump and timber retail outlets on the roadside, he added. The tankers were carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan, Khyber administration chief Shafeerullah Wazir told AFP. #2: Afghanistan’s defense ministry says an explosion possesses killed one Afghan army soldier and wounded three in a very military coaching exercise in Kabul.The Taliban claimed responsibility for the explosion Monday, asserting it absolutely was a suicide attack. Less than Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi denied that. He said the blast was probably brought about by an ancient land mine or by one of the mortars that were employed in the exercise. He said authorities were continue to investigating.Azimi said one soldier was killed and three wounded. #3: An explosion shook a neighborhood of Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar on Monday, sending smoke and dust into the sky, a Reuters witness said. It was now not immediately transparent what caused the blast and if on hand have been any or all casualties. The blast happened in an area
where lots of government buildings tend to be located.