Posted on 07/16/2004 5:05:04 PM PDT by TexKat
KIRKUK: A policeman was shot dead on Friday in Kirkuk, where the bullet-riddled body of a Kurdish peshmerga fighter was discovered, Iraqi police said.
The shooting took place in an area of the city where tensions are high between Arabs, Kurds and Turks, and where police units have come under frequent attack.
Captain Sarhad Qader also said police found the body of a peshmerga of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in the south of Kirkuk with several bullet wounds in the head and abdomen.
In violence elsewhere, 13 people were wounded in clashes between insurgents and US soldiers Friday in the flashpoint western region of Fallujah, Iraqi hospital and police sources said.
A police officer said six people including an eight-year-old child were wounded during fighting in Saklawiya, north of Fallujah, while a hospital source said another seven were wounded in fighting in the city’s southeastern district of Shohada. In central Baghdad, meanwhile, two people were wounded overnight when two grenades were thrown at a US patrol, said Interior Ministry spokesman Colonel Adnan Abdul Rahman.
An explosion near a US army convoy rocked central Baghdad on Friday but it was not immediately clear if it caused any casualties, a US military spokesman said.
“It was in central Baghdad at about 1:05pm. There was an explosion. It was near to a US convoy,” the spokesman said.
Jihad called against US forces in Ramadi: A senior Sunni cleric called on his followers to launch a jihad against the US forces in Iraq on Friday and threatened to turn the hotspot city of Ramadi into a “graveyard” for American troops.
“I ask US President Bush to withdraw from Iraq or else Ramadi will become a graveyard for US soldiers,” declared Sheikh Akram Ubayed Furaih at weekly prayers in the city. “I call upon my brothers, the Shias, and on all other religious groups to embark on a Jihad (holy war) against the US military to force them out of Iraq,” said the cleric, who spent three months in a prison after being arrested by the US military and whose home was also raided last week.
Attackers miss oil pipeline in Kirkuk: Insurgents on Friday fired mortars at a pipeline connecting the oil fields of Kirkuk and the Turkish port of Ceyhan but missed their target, an industry official said. A second official from the Northern Oil Company (NOC) added that a blaze caused by a successful attack on the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline Thursday — which halted crucial oil exports — had been extinguished.
“A mortar round was thrown at about 8:10am on the pipeline near to Riad, 35 kilometres west of Kirkuk, causing a fire in a pool of oil created by leaks, but failing to cause any other damage,” said Ahmad Hassan Afif, a security official at NOC.
Hopes for second Bulgarian dimming: Bulgaria on Friday awaited evidence that a headless corpse found in the Tigris River was one of two Bulgarian hostages in Iraq, and said hopes that the second man would be rescued were dimming. Fingerprints and DNA samples were being sent to Sofia to identify the body found on Thursday wearing an orange jumpsuit, typical of US jails and worn by foreign hostages in the video tapes sent by their militant captors.
“We do not have any information on the second Bulgarian hostage held in Iraq, but with every minute the chances for a positive outcome are diminishing,” said Deputy Foreign Minister Gergana Grancharova. agencies
Saddam would have just killed the ba$tard.
Snore. "Graveyard for US soldiers", yeah.
Put a note in the suggestion box & go brush your teeth, Sheikh.
Don't we know where these Islamokazies are on fridays?
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