国产热热热精品,亚洲视频久久】日韩,三级婷婷在线久久,99人妻精品视频,精品九热人人肉肉在线,AV东京热一区二区,91po在线视频观看,久久激情宗合,青青草黄色手机视频

   

Bus bomb kills 20 in Baghdad

(AP)
Updated: 2006-11-13 22:43

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A bomb tore through in a minibus in a largely Shiite Baghdad neighborhood Monday, killing at least 20 people and wounding 18. Gunmen killed at least 10 people, including a television cameraman, a city councilman and a Sunni sheik, in executions and assassinations around Iraq.


Iraqis inspect remains of a minibus destroyed in an explosion in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Nov. 13, 2006. Violence rattled the center of Iraq on Monday when a bomb exploded in a minibus in Baghdad's largely Shiite Shaab neighborhood, killing at least 20 people and wounding 18. Elsewhere at least 10 other Iraqis died violently, including a member of the Diyala city council. [AP]

Related readings:
Bechtel finishes $2.3B Iraq job, mourning 52 dead
Iraq gunmen kidnap blind coach, official
Over 40 Shiites said kidnapped in Iraq
Locally-based players opted for Asian Cup
Iraq ends some joint checkpoints
Rumsfeld OKs hike in Iraqi forces
Gen. John Abizaid, commander of all U.S. forces in the Middle East, met with the country's Shiite prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, to "reaffirm President Bush's commitment" to success in Iraq, the government said. The two discussed the effects Iran and Syria were having on Iraq's security, according to the Iraqi government statement.

Abizaid was the third top U.S. official to visit Iraq since Oct. 30, and the meeting comes a day after al-Maliki promised to shake up his government in a bid to end the sectarian slaughter. Amid the violence, two U.S. soldiers were killed Sunday in a roadside bombing in Salahuddin Province north of Baghdad, the military reported Monday.

In Washington, the blue-ribbon bipartisan commission trying to devise a new course for the war in Iraq was to meet with President Bush and other White House officials. The Iraq Study Group plans to announce its recommendations to Bush and Congress by the end of the year.

The bomb in the northeast Baghdad Shaab neighborhood was planted on the bus and detonated shortly after noon at a major intersection, police said. Sunni insurgents have frequently targeted Shiite bus passengers in the ongoing sectarian reprisal killings that are tearing at the fabric of Iraqi society.

Hours earlier, Mohammed al-Ban, a cameraman for Iraq's independent Al-Sharqiyah satellite television broadcaster, was gunned down leaving his home in the northern city of Mosul. His wife was wounded, police said.

Al-Ban is the second journalist for the channel to be killed in recent weeks. Anchorwoman Leqaa Abdul Razzaq was fatally shot late last month as she was traveling in south Baghdad's lawless Dora district.

At least 89 journalists have been killed in Iraq since hostilities began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count based on statistics kept by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists.

Another 35 media employees, including drivers, interpreters and guards, have been killed, all but one of them Iraqi.

In Diyala, the increasingly volatile province northeast of Baghdad, council member Assim Mahmoud Abbas was killed in a drive-by shooting, council head Ibrahim Bajilan said. A fellow council member was wounded in the attack in Waziriyah, northeast of the capital.

Sunni Sheik Namis Karim was gunned down Monday morning as he was heading to a mosque in Baqouba, police said.

Also in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, police reported finding the bodies of two women who had been shot to death. A civilian was reported gunned down as well.

Police in western Baghdad found four bodies that had been shot. The victims were handcuffed and their bodies showed signs of torture, police 1st Lt. Maithem Adbel-Razzaq said.
12  


Top World News  
Today's Top News  
Most Commented/Read Stories in 48 Hours
莱芜市| 若羌县| 武乡县| 建瓯市| 鸡东县| 柳林县| 富平县| 普宁市| 宁海县| 恭城| 沧源| 宁强县| 偃师市| 土默特右旗| 海南省| 孙吴县| 两当县| 龙口市| 三都| 封丘县| 武安市| 大新县| 凤阳县| 离岛区| 永泰县| 临沧市| 武川县| 荆州市| 格尔木市| 京山县| 青河县| 大田县| 南部县| 怀仁县| 乐安县| 江津市| 新平| 额尔古纳市| 马尔康县| 鸡东县| 许昌县|