Preacher missing in Iraq, series of attacks
Iraq, Military, 9/30/2005

Earlier in the day, on Thursday, at least 13 Iraqis were killed and many others injured, in a series of attacks took place in Baghdad and its quarters.

Among the killed persons is the chairman of al-Khales city municipality north of Baghdad whose procession was also attacked and this resulted in injuring two members of the council.

In another development, Cliff Handford, archbishop of the Anglican Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East which takes Nicosia, Cyprus as a capital expected that five officials in the Anglican church in Iraq were most expectedly killed on the road between Amman and Baghdad.

Handford said that the five men are missing since two weeks ( after attending a Christian conference in Amman).

In Baghdad, the bishop of the Church Hanna Touma said that the missing persons are the preacher Maher Dakel and his wife Mona who presides over woman department in the church and their son Yahya who is the director of the church's musical band, Dakel's assistant and the driver of the group.

He added that information received said that the group was exposed to an attack on the road between al-Ramadi and Falluja west of Baghdad. The Anglican Iraq includes 800 persons.

Meantime, at least ten persons were killed and other 30 injured in a booby trapped car in a market in the downtown of al-Hella city south of Baghdad today, Friday. Iraqi police sources said that the explosion took place in al-Ammar grocery center.

Iraq witnesses a great escalation of attacks that claimed the killing of 98 persons of whom 85 were killed in three coincided explosions in the downtown of Balad town in the north of Baghdad on Thursday evening.

In Baghdad, the American forces broke into the house of the secretary general of the Iraq's people congress Adnan al-Duleimi and detained four of his guards.

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