Car bomb in Iraq kills 8 in northern city
BAGHDAD — Iraqi police say a car bomb exploded outside a house in the flash point city of Kirkuk, killing eight people inside the building and wounding one.
Kirkuk police chief Brig. Gen. Jamal Tahir says the car loaded with explosives had been parked in the yard of the house, suggesting it was being prepared by those living there for use in an attack and exploded prematurely.
The oil-rich city in northern Iraq has been at the center of conflict between Arabs and Kurds, who want to incorporate the city into their self-governed Kurdish region. Arabs in the area oppose that.
The house belonged to one of the Sunni Arab tribal leaders who turned against al-Qaida in Iraq in a U.S.-funded revolt. He was renting the house to people who moved in several days earlier.
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BAGHDAD (AP) — U.S.-backed Iraqi soldiers raided a home in southeastern Baghdad before dawn on Wednesday, killing two men inside and arresting an Iraqi soldier from an intelligence unit, police and a witness said.
The raid took place in a predominantly Shiite district of the capital called Zafaraniyah, a police officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.
A brother of one the men killed said he had no idea what might have prompted the raid, which he called a “crime.”
The brother, who only wanted to be identified by his nickname, Abu Mustafa, because of security concerns, lives next door to the house that was targeted.
He said the sound of an explosion woke him around 2 a.m. and he rushed to his door and saw Iraqi and American troops cordoning off the area. Then he heard shots being fired.
“Why did they kill my brother? It is a crime,” he said. “If they had something with him, they should have arrested him or investigated.”
The man who was arrested is his cousin.
The U.S. and Iraqi militaries had no immediate comment on the raid.
According to a U.S.-Iraqi security pact that went into effect Jan. 1, U.S. forces no longer operate freely in Iraq, and must coordinate their activities with Iraqi forces. Although their combat role in Iraq has shrunk, American forces can still take part in raids or patrols alongside their Iraqi counterparts, sometimes in the role of trainers or providing intelligence.
Elsewhere in the capital, a roadside bomb struck an Iraqi patrol in the Abu Ghraib district, killing one soldier and injuring two others, a Baghdad police official said.
In the north, an Iraqi army colonel was killed by a bomb attached to his car in the insurgent stronghold of Mosul, according to an official in the provincial operations command.
The two officials asked not to be identified because they were not allowed to speak to the news media.
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