IRAQ: INSURGENTS LAUNCH A SERIES OF ATTACKS TARGETING IRAQI SECURITY FORCES AND AN INTERIOR MINISTRY OFFICIAL IN BAGHDAD

Record ID: 355525

  • Title: IRAQ: INSURGENTS LAUNCH A SERIES OF ATTACKS TARGETING IRAQI SECURITY FORCES AND AN INTERIOR MINISTRY OFFICIAL IN BAGHDAD
  • Date: 5th May 2005
  • Summary: (W2) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (MAY 05, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. LV/SLV POLICE CARS NEAR HOUSE OF MAJOR GENERAL HIKMAT MOUSA, DEPUTY INTERIOR MINISTER, WHERE A CAR BOMB; PICK UP TRUCKS NEAR HOUSE OF INTERIOR MINISTRY OFFICIAL; POLICE CARS LEAVE AREA; SLV PICK-UP TRUCKS TOWING AWAY VEHICLE (4 SHOTS) 0.29 2. LV U.S. HELICOPTER FLYING OVERHEAD 0.33 (BN05) BA
  • Embargoed: 20th May 2005 13:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD AND ARBIL, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA8VY7B32RWI91W87KFPXFAWP3M
  • Story Text: Insurgents launch a series of attacks targeting
    Iraqi security forces and an interior ministry official in
    Baghdad.




    Insurgents detonated a car bomb on Thursday (May 5, 2005)
    west of Baghdad apparently targeting the deputy interior
    minister police said.

    The car was blown up outside the house of Major General Hikmat
    Mousa, deputy interior minister in Ghazaliya
    neighbourhood west of Baghdad, killing one of his
    bodyguards and wounding six people, police said.

    They said that Mousa escaped unscathed. Three police
    vehicles were damaged in the attack.

    Dozens of people were killed in a series of ambushes
    and bomb blasts targeting Iraqi security forces in Baghdad
    on Thursday (May 5), the latest attacks in a surge of
    violence that has rocked the capital.

    A suicide bomber strapped with explosives blew himself
    up at an Iraqi army recruitment centre in a former airfield
    in western Baghdad, killing at least 13 people and wounding
    at least 15, police said.

    "People were there seeking jobs to earn their living
    when a man plowed into them. What did they do?" said Iraqi
    soldier Mohammed Abed al-Jabbar at Muthanna airport, where
    the attack was carried out.

    Insurgents regularly target army and police recruits,
    and the recruitment centre, in a former airfield, has been
    repeatedly attacked by suicide bombers.

    A car bomb killed nine Iraqi National guardsmen and
    wounded 20 people on Wednesday (May 4) in al Doura,
    Baghdad, police said.

    Gunmen ambushed a police convoy in western Baghdad on
    Thursday, shooting dead 10 policemen and then setting their
    vehicles ablaze, police said.

    On Thursday (May 5) a roadside bomb exploded near a U.S.

    military truck in the al-Doura neighbourhood of southern
    Baghdad, setting the truck blaze.

    Mourners gathered on Thursday (May 5) in the northern
    Kurdish city of Arbil to bury one of the men who was killed
    in a suicide bomb blast outside a police recruitment centre
    in the city on Wednesday. As many as 60 people died in the
    attack on Wednesday.

    A Sunni militant group, Ansar al-Sunnah Army, claimed
    responsibility, saying the attack was revenge for Kurdish
    cooperation with US forces.

    Over the past week guerrillas have stepped up their
    violent campaign to topple the country's U.S.-backed
    government and drive out foreign troops, defying
    predictions that the insurgency would crumble following
    Iraq's historic Jan. 30 elections and the formation of a
    new cabinet.


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