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04/19/06 DPA: Shiite tribal leader assassinated in Al Kut
Also Wednesday, a prominent Shiite tribal leader, Sheikh Saad Jaber Yassin, was assassinated in the city of Al Kut Iraqi security sources said. Assailants planted a bomb beneath the front seat of his Chevrolet car.
04/19/06 DPA: Nine bodies found between al- Mussayeb and al-Iskandariya
The attack followed the announcement by an Iraqi police source of the discovery of nine corpses with gunshot wounds, between al- Mussayeb and al-Iskandariya, 36 kilometres south of Baghdad.
04/19/06 Reuters: SYRIA: Aid caravan brings succour to Iraq's displaced peoples
On Tuesday, Syria dispatched a humanitarian aid convoy across the border to Iraq bearing vital supplies and medicine to be distributed to Iraqis living in “severe conditions under occupation”, according to official news agency SANA.
04/19/06 AFP: Car bomb kills two, wounds two others in Baghdad
A car bomb killed two people and wounded two others on a busy market street in the capital's centre, an interior ministry official said.
04/19/06 AFP: Former army colonel shot dead in Baghdad
A former Iraqi army colonel was shot dead in front of his house by gunmen in the southern Baghdad neighbourhood of Saidiyah.
04/19/06 AFP: Three security guards, three street sweepers killed in Baghdad
three security guards at a power station in Baghdad's notorious al-Dura neighbourhood were shot dead by gunmen, while three street sweepers were also killed in a separate shooting in the same area, the official said.
04/19/06 AFP: [b[Roadside bomb near Allawi office in Baghdad kills one, wounds ten
One person was killed in a roadside bombing near the party office of former premier Iyad Allawi in western Baghdad, an interior ministry official said. 10 people – including two police officers – were wounded.
04/19/06 AFP: Police officer shot dead in Baqubah
Also in Baquba, a police officer was shot dead, while two civilians were wounded in a roadside bombing. Baquba has witnessed a surge in violence in the last few weeks with a series of bombings and shootings that has left dozens dead.
04/19/06 AFP: Gunmen kill three professors in Baqubah
in the restive city of Baquba, 60km north-east of Baghdad, three university professors were shot dead by gunmen close to the University of Diyala, a security source said.
04/19/06 AFP: Car bomb kills five people in Baiji, four others wounded
five people were killed in a car bomb attack in the northern city of Baiji, a security official said. The car bomb targeted a passing United States military convoy and also wounded four people, police said.
04/19/06 AP: Iraq Police Deny Report of Teachers Killed
Militants killed two people at elementary schools in a mainly Shiite district of Baghdad on Wednesday, the government said. But police in the neighborhood denied any attack occurred. The contradictory accounts could not immediately be reconciled.
04/19/06 National Guard and Reserve Mobilized as of April 19, 2006
This week, the Army and Air Force announced an increase in the number of reservists on active duty, while the Navy, Marine Corps decreased. The net collective result is a 2,297 increase in reservists mobilized this week than last week.
04/19/06 Reuters: Three insurgents killed, another captured in Ramadi
Iraq's government said in a statement that the Iraqi army had killed three insurgents and detained another after a bomb they were placing on side of the road exploded in Ramadi.
04/19/06 Caledonian-Record: Triplet Injured In Iraq
Army Sgt. Zeb LaPoint, had been involved in an explosion in Baghdad, Iraq. “They said, ÔWe have to inform you that your son has been wounded in an IED explosion,'” Bernache said. “They said he had a bad, bad headache and he had all his limbs.”
04/19/06 Reuters: Teachers beheaded in Baghdad in front of students
Separate groups of gunmen entered two primary schools in Baghdad on Wednesday and beheaded two teachers in front of their students, the Ministry of State for National Security said.
04/19/06 CENTCOM: Roadside bomb kills MND-B Soldier (confirmed)
A Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldier died from wounds sustained when his vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad April 18.
04/19/06 Reuters: U.N. torture panel presses U.S. on detainees
GENEVA, April 18 (Reuters) -The United Nations committee against torture has demanded that the United States provide more information about its treatment of prisoners at home and foreign terrorism suspects held in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.
04/19/06 KSLA: East Texas Marine Critically Injured in Iraq
The news came hard when the people of Marshall found out one of their own, Tony Scott Flynn, had been seriously injured in Iraq. Schrapnel from a mortar explosion injured Fynn on Thursday of last week. “Extremely critical. He's on a respirator,”
04/19/06 Reuters: U.S. soldier killed north of Baghdad
A U.S. soldier died from wounds sustained on Tuesday when his vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
04/19/06 Reuters: mobile phone tower destroyed in Fallujah
Gunmen destroyed a mobile phone tower used by Iraqna mobile company on Tuesday when they planted a bomb near the tower in Falluja, 50 km (35 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.
04/19/06 The Australian: 20,000 kidnapped in Iraq this year
The 19,548 people kidnapped includes 4959 women and 2350 children, according to the report prepared by a group of 125 non-governmental organisations and made public in the Shi'ite holy city of Karbala.
04/19/06 WPost: Injured women put new face on war
Her body was maimed by war. Dawn Halfaker lay unconscious at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, her parents at her bedside and her future suddenly uncertain. A rocket-propelled grenade had exploded in her Humvee, ravaging her right arm and shoulder.
04/19/06 BNA: Clashes between US troops, insurgents kill four civilians in Iraq
US troops clashed with insurgents in Ramadi killing four civilians and injuring six others today, a police source said. Civilian houses were struck by rockets fired by American tanks following the clashes, and a US tank was hit and destroyed by a RPG.
04/19/06 Reuters: U.S. troops wound three civilians in Kirkuk
KIRKUK - Three civilians were wounded when American forces opened fire after the civilians ignored signs not to get to close to a U.S. patrol on a main road, a joint U.S. and Iraqi army centre said.
04/19/06 AP: Baghdad District Calm After Gunbattles
Iraqi soldiers manned checkpoints and searched cars Wednesday in a Sunni Arab district of northern Baghdad after two days of clashes that erupted over rumors that Shiite militias were coming. At least 13 people were killed before clashes ended Tuesday
04/19/06 Reuters: Car bomb kills one civilian, wounds ten near Baghdads green zone
A civilian was killed and 10 people, including two policemen, were wounded when a roadside bomb hit a police patrol near one of the entrances to the Green Zone, where U.S. and Iraqi government offices are housed, police said.
04/19/06 AP: Car bomb wounds two in Baqubah
A car bomb exploded in the city of Baqouba, wounding two civilians. Police had earlier received a call about a body in the car, which they retrieved moments before the blast, officials said.
04/19/06 AP: Five more bodies found in Baghdad
In the southeastern suburb of Rustamiyah, police discovered five bodies of Iraqis, handcuffed and blindfolded. Late Tuesday, police had found 11 corpses in various parts of the capital.
04/19/06 AP: Five foreigners killed in northern Iraq
late Tuesday, five foreigners, including an Egyptian, were killed as they drove near a village 31 miles southwest of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, police said. Officials declined to reveal the nationalities of the other four victims.
04/19/06 AP: Gunmen kill five in Baghdad's Dora neighborhood
In three separate attacks, gunmen in the southern neighborhood of Dora killed a construction worker, trade ministry employee and three power plant workers who had been snatched from their car an hour earlier, police said.
04/19/06 AP: Gunmen kill medic in Baghdad
In Baghdad's west Amariyah district, gunmen killed a medic as he walked from house to house administering vaccinations, police said.
04/19/06 Reuters: Gunmen blow up police station in Yusufiya
Gunmen blew up a newly established police station in Yusufiya, south of Baghdad, police said. No casualties were reported.
04/19/06 Reuters: Gunmen killed a man driving a car bomb in Baquba
Gunmen killed a man driving a car bomb in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. After police took the body out of the car, the booby-trapped vehicle exploded, wounding two civilians, police said.
04/19/06 AP: Roadside bomb kills one civilain near al-Kindi hospital
The other [roadside bomb] exploded near the al-Kindi hospital in eastern Baghdad, killing one civilian and wounding four others, police said.
04/19/06 AP: Roadside bombs kills 1, wounds 11
One bomb targeting a police patrol blew up in the western neighborhood of Harthiya, killing one civilian and injuring 11 people, including two policemen and an Iraqi soldier, police said.

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Baghdad street battle smacks of open civil war