IRAQ: UNITED STATES MILITARY EMPLOYEES AND A POLICE COMMANDER SHOT DEAD AS FOUR IRAQI SOLDIERS DIE IN SUICIDE BOMBING

Record ID: 338070

  • Title: IRAQ: UNITED STATES MILITARY EMPLOYEES AND A POLICE COMMANDER SHOT DEAD AS FOUR IRAQI SOLDIERS DIE IN SUICIDE BOMBING
  • Date: 27th March 2005
  • Summary: (BN12) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (MARCH 25, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. SLV STREET WHERE ASSASSINATION TOOK PLACE; SITE OF ASSASSINATION; SCU BLOOD STAIN ON ROAD; SLV JOURNALIST TALKING TO EYEWITNESS 0.15 2. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) EYEWITNESS, SAYING: "A black car drove up and several shots were fired. We ran up to his (victim's) car and took him to the hospital." 0.32
  • Embargoed: 11th April 2005 13:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, ISKANDARIYA, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVABSC94I7EQK0VXJIV8KIDURI3F
  • Story Text: U.S. military employees and police commander are
    shot dead in Baghdad as four Iraqi soldiers die in suicide
    car bombing.

    Gunmen assassinated a senior Iraqi National Guard
    commander in Baghdad on Friday (March 25, 2005), police officials
    said.

    Major General Suleiman Mohammad, who commanded a
    National Guard division in southern Iraq, was shot in the
    New Baghdad district of the Iraqi capital. Two of his sons
    were also wounded in the attack, the police said.

    Insurgents have assassinated several police chiefs,
    National Guard and army commanders, as well as government
    officials as part of their campaign to drive the U.S.-led
    forces out of Iraq and stall efforts to form a new Iraqi
    government.

    In a separate attack on Friday (March 25) in
    Iskandariya, a lawless area just south of Baghdad, a bomber
    blew up his car beside an Iraqi army convoy, local police
    said.

    Four soldiers were killed and at least nine troops and
    civilians were wounded, two seriously, in the incident,
    police said.

    Five women were found shot dead in a bullet-ridden car
    in western Baghdad, the U.S. army said on Friday (March
    25).

    Four of the women worked at a military base in the
    Iraqi capital, the 3rd Infantry Division said in a
    statement. It gave no further details.

    "We saw the tens of police cars rushing to the site and
    also ambulances. We found in the car five women who had
    been shot and they were bleeding - three of them were at
    the back seats and two in front. When we saw that we didn't
    know what to do," said Mohammed Ali, an eyewitness at the
    scene.

    Sunni Arab insurgents have been the most frequent attackers of
    Iraq
    is working for the U.S. military, often
    following translators, cooks or other employees home and
    killing them in execution-style.


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