- (Reuters) - Following are security incidents reported
in Iraq on Tuesday, Oct. 11, as of 2000 GMT. U.S. and Iraqi forces are
battling a Sunni Arab insurgency against the Shi'ite and Kurdish-led government
in Baghdad.
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- RAMADI - Two U.S. soldiers died of wounds sustained after
their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb near Ramadi, west of Baghdad,
the U.S. military said in a statement. The deaths raise to more than 1,950
the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq since the start of the war.
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- BAQUBA - An Iraqi soldier was killed and three were wounded
in an attack on a checkpoint new Baquba, about 65 km (40 miles) north of
Baghdad, police said.
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- NAJAF - Three members of the family of Ayatollah Mohammed
Sayyid al-Hakim, one of Iraq's leading Shi'ite clerics, were wounded when
a roadside bomb detonated near their vehicle outside Najaf, south of Baghdad,
the Iraqi police said.
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- BAGHDAD - Initial reports from police said more than
25 people were killed when a suicide car bomber attacked an Iraqi Army
patrol in the western Amiriya district of Baghdad.
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- TAL AFAR - At least 30 people were killed and 36 wounded
when a suicide car bomber exploded in a market in the northern Iraqi city
of Tal Afar, an Interior Ministry source said.
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- BAGHDAD - U.S. forces killed two insurgents and detained
57 suspects during searches in the early-morning hours in south Baghdad,
a U.S. military statement said.
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- TIKRIT - Police said a U.S. army patrol found three bodies
in civilian clothes with multiple gunshot wounds, on Monday, in al-Tarisha
village near Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad.
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- TIKRIT - Police lieutenant Soud Abdul Kareem was killed
on Monday when a roadside bomb exploded near his house in the town of Tikrit,
175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, a police source said.
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- (Reporting by Ghazwan Hassan from Tikrit, Fares al-Mehdawi
from Baquba, Nabil Nour il-Din from Mosul and Baghdad Newsroom)
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