Bomb kills up to 9 south of Baghdad - police

[maddezmom]

Source: Reuters

Bomb kills up to 9 south of Baghdad - police
11 May 2007 14:53:55 GMT
Source: Reuters
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BAGHDAD, May 11 (Reuters) - A car bomb killed up to nine people near a bridge south of Baghdad on Friday, police said.

Police said the vehicle could have been a tanker that exploded near the Diyala bridge.


Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L11727794.htm

[maddezmom]

1. 12 killed in two Baghdad bombings

12 killed in two Baghdad bombings
BAGHDAD (CNN) -- Twelve people were killed Friday in two southeastern Baghdad bombings that also substantially damaged a bridge over the Tigris River, an official with the Iraqi Interior Ministry told CNN.

Two suicide bombs -- one in a car and another in a fuel tanker -- exploded in quick succession in the predominantly Shiite Zafaraniya district. Each targeted an Iraqi police patrol.

The patrols were near two bridges -- the new Diyala bridge and the old Diyala bridge -- a few kilometers apart. It was not known which bridge was badly damaged.

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/11/friday/index.html

[maddezmom]

2. 6 killed in Samarra, including four in attack on police post

6 killed in Samarra, including four in attack on police post
BAGHDAD (CNN) -- Four Iraqi National Police were killed in the Iraqi city of Samarra on Friday when militants using explosives and firearms attacked their post, police said.

They were among six people killed Friday in the Salaheddin province city.

Militants bombed the police post in Mustashfa district about a half hour after the end of a one-hour lifting of the city's stiff curfew.

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/11/friday/index.html

[Eugene]

3. Truck bombs south of Baghdad kill 22 - police

Source: Reuters

Truck bombs south of Baghdad kill 22 - police
11 May 2007 17:53:18 GMT
Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, May 11 (Reuters) - The death toll from two truck bombs on two bridges
in a Shi'ite area south of Baghdad on Friday rose to 22 with 60 people wounded,
police said.


Link: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IBO163979.htm

[maddezmom]

4. initial reports are always low and MSM always seem to stay with those numbers

until the day after when there is a recap. :(

[reprobate]

5. See, things are going well in Iraq. I told you the surge was working.

[maddezmom]

6. Bombers kill 26 in attacks on 3 Iraqi bridges

Bombers kill 26 in attacks on 3 Iraqi bridges
11 May 2007 19:50:04 GMT
Background
and Dean Yates
BAGHDAD, May 11 (Reuters) - Truck bombs exploded on three important bridges near Baghdad on Friday, killing 26 people and damaging two of the spans in an apparent attempt by insurgents to paralyse road links to the Iraqi capital.

The attacks defy efforts by the U.S. military to smash car bomb cells and are the latest in a series of attacks on infrastructure around Baghdad, where U.S. and Iraqi forces have deployed thousands more troops under a three-month-old security plan.

In England, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said Iraq would need U.S. and British troops for another year or two.

"I think in one or two years we will be able to recruit our own army forces and say goodbye to our friends," the president told students in a lecture at Cambridge University.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L11696260.htm

[Eugene]

7. Iraqi police guard bridges after bombs

Source: Associated Press

Iraqi police guard bridges after bombs

By THOMAS WAGNER, Associated Press Writer
18 minutes ago

BAGHDAD - Iraqi police on Saturday closely guarded two bridges in
Baghdad that were heavily damaged by suicide car bombers in what
appears to be a new strategy by suspected Sunni insurgents of
targeting crossovers in the capital.

Friday's attacks in predominantly Shiite areas of the city brought to
five the number of bridges that have been targeted by large explosions
in Baghdad since March 21.

It remains unclear whether the main goal of Iraqi insurgents is to
spark sectarian violence by targeting bridges that unite predominantly
Shiite and Sunni areas of the city, or to knock out vital supply and
transportation links in the capital.

-snip-

In all, at least 52 Iraqis were killed or found dead Friday in sectarian
violence in Iraq. Also Friday, the military announced that two U.S.
soldiers were killed in separate bombing attacks the day before —
one in Diyala province north of the capital and the other in Baghdad.

-snip-

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070512/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq