March 24th 2006 in Iraq

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MOU452821.htm

March 24 (Reuters) - Following are security incidents in Iraq as of 2215 GMT on Friday.

U.S. and Iraqi forces have been battling a Sunni Arab insurgency against the Shi'ite- and Kurdish-led interim government. The bombing of a Shi'ite shrine on Feb. 22 has been followed by a surge in sectarian attacks.

Asterisk denotes a new or updated item.

*FALLUJA - Two U.S. soldiers were killed in action in Anbar province, west of Baghdad, on Thursday, the military said in a statement.

*BAGHDAD - U.S. troops found six bodies, apparently victims of a death squad killing, in the Khodra area of Baghdad and turned them over to Iraqi police, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen kidnapped police commando Colonel Muayyad al-Mashhadani in front of his home in eastern Baghdad, police said.

BAIJI - The bodies of two Iraqi soldiers who were killed by gunmen on Friday were found in Baiji, 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, said a source at a U.S.-Iraqi military coordination centre.

MAHMUDIYA - Four members of a Shi'ite family, including a child, were killed and the mother was critically wounded when gunmen shot them in their house in Mahmoudiya, south of Baghdad, police said.

KHALIS - Five worshippers were killed and 17 wounded by a bomb planted near a Sunni mosque in the town of Khalis, 60 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Police found five bodies, shot, blindfolded and with their hands bound, on the edge of the Shi'ite district of Sadr City, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed four bakery workers in a mostly Sunni district of Baghdad and planted an explosive booby-trap that killed a policeman responding to the attack, police said.

BAGHDAD - Three policemen were killed and one wounded when gunmen opened fire on their patrol in western Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Police found seven bodies with their hands bound and shot in the head in northern Baghdad. A police source said the bodies were dumped on a street in al-Binouk district.

TAL AFAR - Six children were wounded when a mortar bomb landed in the town of Tal Afar, west of Mosul, police said.

Cause you know reporting on all the death and destruction is just bad journalism!!:sarcasm:

Six children that woun't be attending the newly painted schools!!!:sarcasm:

Death and Destruction follows the * cabal everywhere they go!!

Smaller class sizes!

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be alive the next hour (that goes for our soldiers also).