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Round-up of Daily Violence in Iraq - Wednesday 27 August 2008

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The daily Iraqi violence report is compiled by McClatchy Newspapers Special Correspondents in Baghdad from police, military and medical reports. This is not a comprehensive list of all violence in Iraq, much of which goes unreported. It’s posted without editing as transmitted to McClatchy’s Washington Bureau.

Baghdad

Around 8:00 a.m. an IED exploded targeting a US patrol on Mohammed al Qasim highway in east Baghdad. No casualties were reported.

Five civilians were injured by a roadside bomb in al Kamaliyah neighborhood in east Baghdad around 10:00 a.m.

Six civilians were wounded by a roadside bomb near the national theater in Karrada neighborhood in downtown Baghdad around 1:00 p.m.

A civilian was killed and seven others were injured by a parked car bomb in New Baghdad neighborhood in east Baghdad around 1:30 p.m.

A civilian was injured by an adhesive bomb that was attached to his BMW car. The incident took place in Mansour neighborhood in west Baghdad around 6:00 p.m.

Iraqi police found two unidentified bodies in Sinak area in downtown Baghdad.

Nineveh

14 civilians were injured by a suicide car bomb that detonated before reaching a checkpoint in Talafar city west Mosul.

Five civilians were injured by a suicide car bomb that targeted an American patrol in downtown Mosul city on Wednesday afternoon.

A suicide car bomb detonated in eats Mosul on Wednesday afternoon. No news were reported about casualties.

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