Bloody Monday in Iraq
The 'liberal media' failed yet again today -- spending more time on the Duke Lacrosse and Paris Hilton stories than on what transpired in Iraq. Here's a dose of what you may have missed if you spent your day watching cable news:
SAMARRA - A car bomb killed five Interior Ministry special forcespersonnel and wounded six others in the town of Samarra, north ofBaghdad, police said.
BALAD - Gunmen killed two Iraqi soldiers when they ambushed a checkpoint near Balad, north of Baghdad, police said.
BAGHDAD - U.S.-led coalition forces killed at least 20 militants aftercoming under attack from Shi'ite gunmen during raids in southern Maysanprovince on Monday, the U.S. military said. An official in the officeof anti-U.S. Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in the Maysan capital Amarasaid 17 members of his Mehdi Army had been killed and 45 wounded.
BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier was killed by a roadside bomb while on footpatrol in the southern part of the capital, the U.S. military said onMonday. It did not make clear when the incident occurred.
FALLUJA - Two people were killed and 10 wounded by a truck bomb incentral Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad, the U.S. militarysaid. MOSUL - The bodies of three brothers were found outside Mosul, 390 km north of Baghdad, the police said. They had been shot.
BAGHDAD - Nine people were killed and 25 wounded when two car bombsexploded in quick succession as motorists queued for petrol in thesouthern Saidiya district of Baghdad, police said. Eight cars were seton fire.
FALLUJA - Three people were killed and 15 woundedin a car bomb attack at a popular market in the Sunni Arab strongholdof Falluja, 50 km west of Baghdad, police said.
NASSIRIYA - Atleast four people were killed and 54 wounded in clashes between gunmenloyal to cleric Sadr and police in the southern Shi'ite city ofNassiriya, 375 km south of Baghdad, hospital and police sources said.
BAQUBA - Gunmen attacked the office of Mohammed Abid, a manager in theDiyala electricity station, and shot him dead in the city of Baquba,police said.
BAGHDAD - U.S. forces detained 11 suspected insurgents duringoperations Sunday and Monday to disrupt al Qaeda car bomb networks inBaghdad and Haditha, the U.S. military said.
Clearly, the internet is the best place to get your news these days.
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