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Round-up of Daily Violence in Iraq - Sunday 09 August 2009

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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

Explosive experts defused an adhesive bomb that was attached to the car of a Sahwa member in Doura neighborhood in south Baghdad.

Around 2 p.m. gunmen killed a taxi driver and stole his car in Amil neighborhood in west Baghdad.

Around 2 p.m. gunmen killed a taxi driver and stole his car in Hurriyah neighborhood in northwest Baghdad.

Gunmen using pistols with silencers killed two Kurdish security members in Karrada neighborhood in downtown Baghdad around 2 p.m.

Four civilians were injured by a roadside bomb in Mansour neighborhood in west Baghdad around 7 p.m.

One member of the national police was injured by a roadside bomb that targeted his vehiclel in Doura neighborhood in south Bghadad around 8 p.m.

Diyala

Four policemen were injured by a roadside bomb targeted their patrol in south Baquba.

Nineveh

one policeman was killed and three people including two policemen were wounded by a roadside bomb in west Mosul

2009 McClatchy Newspapers
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