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War News for Thursday, April 03, 2008

Baghdad:

#1: A parked car bomb targeting a police patrol in western Baghdad

killed at least one civilian and wounded 10 other people, including

three officers, police said.

Three people were killed and ten others injured by a car bomb

explosion targeting a police patrol in western Baghdad on Thursday, an

Interior Ministry source said. "The incident occurred at about 11:00

a.m. (0800 GMT) when a booby-trapped car went off near a police patrol

in the al-Kindi thoroughfare in the Harthiya neighborhood," the source

told Xinhuaon condition of anonymity. The blast resulted in the

killing of three civilians, includinga woman, and the wounding of ten

others, including three policemen,the source said.

#2-5: Earlier, four roadside bomb explosions across Baghdad resulted

in the killing of an Iraqi soldier and the wounding of eight people,

the police said.

#2: A roadside bomb struck an Iraqi army patrol elsewhere in the

predominantly Sunni Yarmouk neighborhood in the capital, killing one

soldier and wounding three others.

#3: A roadside bomb struck street cleaners in Sinaa Street, east-

central Baghdad, wounding 4 cleaners, police said.

#4: A roadside bomb exploded near a restaurant in western Baghdad

wounding a traffic policeman, police said.

An IED planted in the Traffic Police umbrella stand in Mansour

neighbourhood, central Baghdad, near al-Sa'a restaurant went off at

7.15 am Thursday injuring one policeman.

#5: A roadside bomb exploded in Qahtan Square of western Baghdad

wounding 2 civilians, police said.

#6: A mortar shell slammed into a house in Sadr City late Wednesday,

killing three members of one family, including two children and their

grandmother, police said. Five people were injured.

#7: US soldiers accidentally shot and killed an Iraqi woman while

targeting a man planting a roadside bomb in Baghdad, the military said

Thursday. The soldiers were on a foot patrol Wednesday in northeastern

Baghdad when they fired three rounds at the suspect, killing him,

according to a statement. The troops then opened fire on another man

trying to remove the roadside bomb from the site as a crowd gathered.

The military said the man was wounded, along with one of two local

women he was using as shields against the soldiers. "After the

engagement, the woman died of her wounds," the military said.

Hilla:

#1: U.S. forces called in helicopter strikes during a clash with

gunmen on Thursday in the southern Iraqi city of Hilla. Police sources

in the Shi'ite city said five people had been killed in the predawn

operation, including four policemen. They said fighting broke out

after U.S. troops wearing civilian clothes entered the al-Jamiya

district in central Hilla. Sattar al-Jeshaami, spokesman for the main

hospital in Hilla, said six bodies had been brought in after the

clash, including four policemen. Around 15 people had been wounded,

half of them civilians, he said.

The U.S. military said gunmen opened fire on U.S. troops who were on

an operation to detain a so-called "special groups" member, the

military's term for rogue elements in the Mehdi Army militia of

Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

In Hilla, south of Baghdad, security officials told Deutsche Presse-

Agentur dpa that night guards opened fire by mistake on a US patrol in

the early hours on Thursday in Jamiyah district in the city centre.

Later, a US gunship shelled the scene of the shooting, killing five

policemen and injuring 11, including two women in their homes, the

officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said.

Basra:

#1: A U.S. warplane in the southern Iraq city of Basra launched an

airstrike "against enemy forces" that killed one person and destroyed

a house, the U.S. military has said. The U.S. military said Thursday

the strike -- carried out overnight in support of Iraqi security

forces -- took place near the western Basra neighborhood of Qibla.

But witnesses said three people were killed and three others were

believed to be buried in the rubble, apparently leading to confusion

over the number of casualties. "While we were preparing for evening

prayer, US aircraft bombed this house, we rushed to save survivors but

in vain," one said. "The father, mother and a young boy were killed

and three others were buried under rubble. We evacuated two people and

one is still under the rubble." Hospital officials said three bodies

had been received, including two men and an elderly woman, and two

women were wounded in the strike.

The US military has been accused of killing six Iraqi civilians during

an air strike in the southern city of Basra yesterday.

#2: update Iraqi soldiers rolled through a Shiite militia stronghold

in Basra on Wednesday. Later, the camera operator, Mazin al-Tayar,

told Alhurra by telephone that the soldiers faced "many roadside bombs

and mortar rounds" during the operation, although there were no

reports of military casualties.

#3: Iraqi security forces arrested Yusuf al-Mawsawi, head of the

Tharallah Shi'ite religious party, in an overnight operation in the al-

Maqal area of northeast Basra, said Baqir al-Jabiri, an official in

the party.

Tikrit:

#1: "U.S. troops made an airdrop in Ain al-Faras region, west of

Tikrit, after receiving intelligence reports indicating the presence

of fighters carrying Arab nationalities in the region," the source

told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq. "Separate clashes broke out

between suspected al-Qaeda gunmen and U.S. forces, during which 11

gunmen, including seven carrying Arab passports, were killed," he

explained. "The U.S. forces told the police that they carried the

gunmen's bodies to the U.S. base north of Tikrit," the source added.

"One U.S. soldier was injured in the clashes," he also said.

Kirkuk:

#1: Gunmen opened fire upon a civilian on the main route between

Kirkuk and Baghdad, Wednesday evening killing him instantly.

#2: Gunmen assassinated a police officer in the Iraqi Police,

Department of National Investigation in downtown Kirkuk, late

Wednesday evening.

Mosul:

#1: In northern Iraq, a suicide bomber attacked an Iraqi checkpoint

west of Mosul late Wednesday, killing seven people, including a woman

and a 5-year-old child, and wounding 12, according to the Iraqi

military. The U.S. military confirmed the Wednesday night attack but

put the casualty toll at five dead and 19 wounded.