IRAQ : US WORKERS KILLED13 people were killed by a group of armed men in Baquba, north of Baghdad, on Tuesday. The minibus was passing by to bring the US workers to their base. The fighters opened fire and killed all the people inside the vehicle, including the driver. 9 people have died immediately by the rifle wounds, three others have died as the minibus bumped on the fighters' car.
Later on two other people were killed and four wounded as a roadside bomb exploded next to a police convoy in the northern city of Kirkuk. A member of the PUK (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan), the party of President Talabani and a policemen were killed in the attack. The bomb blew off at 8.30am (0430 GMT), in the central al-Wasiti neighbourhood.
"The IED (improvised explosive device) was targeted at a passing police patrol in which one policeman was killed and one wounded," said the Iraqi police Col.Adel Zaein al-Abidin.
Recent developments in the struggle for Iraq have shown a rising violence perpetrated by the al-Quaida groups in this country,
which was not a base for terrorists during Hussein's dictatorship.
The worst attack happened
on Saturday at the al-Musayyib mosque where a suicide bomber caused
the death of 83 people and the wounding of more than 150 other.
al-Jazeera
Il Romanaccio at 10:20 AM
