Acts of violence, attacks continue in Iraq

Attacks and acts of violence continued on Sunday in Iraq resulted in killing 8 Iraqis including one engineer and two policemen, and injuring of other ten including five policemen in various attacks. The police forces also found two unidentified bodies in Baghdad.

Two policemen were killed and two other injured when gunmen opened fire at the car of col. Firhad Qader, the commander of districts belonging to the governorate of Karkouk, to the northeast of Baghdad, according to a source in the Iraqi police in the governorate. Qader was not hurt.

A source in al-Madaen police, north Baghdad, said that five civilians were killed and other six injured including one army officer in two bomb explosions. One was when one bus carrying passengers to al-Maden was running and the second when a police patrol arrived at the site.

A source in the Iraqi ministry of interior said that two police men were injured by bullets fired by gunmen at a police vehicle in al-Talebyah area, east of Baghdad, and this resulted in injuring two of its members. The same source said that the police found in al-Shula area north of Baghdad two unidentified bodies killed by bullets with tightened eyes and hands.

In al-Hulla city south of Baghdad, the Iraqi police said that gunmen assassinated on Sunday morning the Iraqi engineer Karim Salman in front of his house in al-Bakerly quarters in the center of the city.

In another development, the American army on Sunday morning issued imprisonment sentences ranging between one to seven years against three Iraqis and one Syrian accused of having weapons and entering Iraq illegally. These imprisonment sentences were issued by the central Iraqi criminal court which was established in October 2003 by the chairman of the former interim authority in Iraq Paul Bremer.