Three Iraqi soldiers killed, five wounded north of Baghdad

2012-08-18

The Iraqi police in Baghdad said Saturday (August 18th) that three Iraqi soldiers were killed and five others were wounded in an armed attack in Tarmiya, north of Baghdad.

"Al-Qaeda gunmen attacked two army checkpoints at a late hour [Friday] evening using hand grenades and machine guns, prompting violent clashes between the two sides in which three soldiers were killed and five others wounded. Meanwhile, a gunman was killed and another was arrested," Tarmiya police spokesperson Maj. Ali al-Mashhadani told Al-Shorfa,

Al-Mashhadani said the army forces are conducting operations in search of the other gunmen, who fled towards the southern area of town. The security forces hope to arrest them with help from local residents, he added.

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مامون

2012-8-20

The leaders and planners of the bombings, terrorism and killings in the Al-Qaeda have to feel the humiliation about what they are doing to their fellow Muslims in Iraq. The shedding of all this massive innocent blood is only an evidence of the criminality and the bloodiness of this organization. They should return to their senses and ask pardon from God and the Iraqi people.
سمير هلال

2012-8-20

The hardest thing that has been confronted by the Arabic lands, in particular, are those terrorist attacks that have swept Iraq, spread and spilled blood, looted, and killed thousands of honorable citizens, which exposed the great Iraqi citizens to the squares of explosions by cars prepared by the terrorist forces and made deadly bombs on roads amidst gatherings of thousands of Iraqi citizens.