A bloody day in Iraq, threats of civilian unrest
Iraq, Military, 12/27/2005

Iraq has witnessed a bloody day on Monday inflected in killing scores following a relative calm accompanied the Iraqi parliamentary elections two weeks ago.

The booby trapped cars returned back to destabilize the Iraqi scene, as six booby trapped cars went off in Baghdad. The escalation of the attacks coincided with the heated political atmospheres, as three forces including the Arab Sunni, and the former Iraqi prime minister Eyad Allawi warned of a civilian unrest in the course of rejecting the results of the elections.

Many of the attacks targeted the Iraqi security men and the army, and as a result 17 members of these forces were killed in various attacks including one attack targeting one inspection point in Bahraz north of Baghdad at which five police men were killed and other three injured and 6 gunmen were killed in the same confrontations.

Al-Qaida organization in Iraq claimed responsibility for the attack. It said in a statement issued on the Internet that it had killed and injured all the police men members at the inspection point, tolling 20 policemen, according to al-Qaida.

Five Iraqi soldiers were killed in various attacks in al-Dabab town north of Baghdad and two others were injured in a bomb explosions in al-Lateifah area south of the Iraqi capital.

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