[Excerpt: Kirkuk is the centre of Iraqâs northern oil industry. Tension has risen between Arabs, Kurds and Turkish-speaking Turkmen since Saddam Hussein was toppled last year. ....At Ash Sharqat, Colonel Mohammed Abed said from his hospital bed that a fellow police colonel and another officer were killed in the ambush which left Abed and two others wounded.....âThey blocked our way, shot us and took our cars,â he said.... A police source said the brigadier and colonel killed in Baghdad both worked at the Interior Ministry.]
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2004/Dec ember/focusoniraq_December93.xml§ion=focusoniraq Iraq insurgents kill top police, hit US convoy (Reuters) 11 December 2004 KIRKUK, Iraq - Gunmen killed three high-ranking Iraqi police officers in two separate attacks on Saturday, among a daily round of bombings and ambushes targeting US forces and their Iraqi allies. A car bomb exploded in the centre of the ethnically divided northern oil capital of Kirkuk, badly damaging a US Humvee patrol vehicle and wounding two soldiers and an interpreter, the US military said. The wounded were in a stable condition. In southern Baghdad, gunmen assassinated a police brigadier and a colonel, a police source said, while west of Kirkuk near the town of Ash Sharqat a police colonel was one of two officers killed in an ambush. A second colonel, who reported the incident, was among three policemen wounded. In a separate attack near Kirkuk, a policeman was wounded by a roadside bomb. In the northern city of Mosul, where the Sunni Arab insurgency has been particularly active in the past month, a car bomb exploded near a US military convoy wounding at least two passersby, witnesses and the US army said. Security officials and civil servants have become prime targets for insurgents opposed to the US military occupation and to Iraqis working for the US-backed authorities. There are fears violence may increase before an election on Jan. 30. A bomb damaged an office for election workers in the town of Zab, southwest of Kirkuk, wounding a civilian, police said. Four employees of the Education Ministry were wounded when the bus taking them to work in Baghdad was raked by gunfire. A civilian motorist was wounded on the main highway between Hilla and Kerbala, south of the capital, when a roadside bomb went off, missing a convoy of National Guards, police said. In Kirkuk, US troops and Iraqi police sealed off the area where the car bomb exploded. Master Sergeant Robert Powell, a spokesman for US forces in the area, said it was believed to have been remotely detonated and not a suicide bomb attack. KIRKUK TENSIONS Close to the same spot exactly a month ago the provincial governor of Kirkuk, an ethnic Kurd, survived an assassination attempt when a car bomb exploded near his convoy. At least 16 people were wounded in that attack on Nov. 11. Kirkuk is the centre of Iraqâs northern oil industry. Tension has risen between Arabs, Kurds and Turkish-speaking Turkmen since Saddam Hussein was toppled last year. At Ash Sharqat, Colonel Mohammed Abed said from his hospital bed that a fellow police colonel and another officer were killed in the ambush which left Abed and two others wounded. âThey blocked our way, shot us and took our cars,â he said. A police source said the brigadier and colonel killed in Baghdad both worked at the Interior Ministry. A woman who survived the attack on the Education Ministry bus said in hospital: âWe were on our way to work. We go the same way every day.â Two men and two women were wounded. The yellow, unmarked city bus was riddled with bullet holes. enditem [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
