Darkbeaver's article correct: 8 civilians killed in village

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - On the eve of the third anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion, American troops clashed with gunmen north and west of Baghdad Sunday, and insurgents lobbed a mortar round into Karbala, the holy city south of Baghdad where a million Shiite pilgrims assembled for a major religious commemoration.




Iraqi police said eight civilians, including a child, were killed in clashes between U.S. troops and gunmen in Duluiyah, 45 miles north of Baghdad. The town is located in Iraq's Sunni heartland where the Iraqi army and U.S. forces opened an airborne campaign last week to hunt down insurgents.

The Americans said it was the largest "air assault" operation since the 2003 invasion.

During operations in Duluiyah, police said, U.S. troops arrested Col. Farouq Khalil, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official, after raiding his house.


The American military did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Earlier it said scores of suspected insurgents had been detained.

Elsewhere, two civilians were killed and 10 wounded when gunmen attacked U.S. troops stationed at the governor's office in Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad.

In the capital, police found the bullet-riddled bodies of three men bound hand and foot and dumped in a sewage treatment plant in the southeast neighborhood of Rustamiyah. The victims appeared to be the latest in the wave of revenge killings after the bombing Feb. 22 of a Shiite shrine in Samarra.

Iraq's former interim prime minister said the increasing attacks across his country can only be described as a civil war, and that the United States and Europe could be touched by spreading violence, according to an interview aired Sunday.

"It is unfortunate that we are in civil war. We are losing each day as an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more," Ayad Allawi told the British Broadcasting Corp. "If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is."

The mortar round fired at the holy city of Karbala landed in a parking lot a half mile from the shrine that is the destination of the pilgrims marking the 40th and final day of mourning for Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson. No one was hurt.

In violence against police, gunmen killed four guards at archaeological sites in the northern city of Mosul. A fifth policeman and a bystander were wounded. A roadside bomb exploded on a police patrol in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, killing one officer and injuring 10 others, the Iraqi military said.

A Baghdad policeman driving on a rural road in Latifiyah, about 20 miles south of the Iraqi capital, was also killed by gunmen, police said. Four men riding in the car were wounded in the attack.

Near the southern city of Basra, two officials of the Iraqi Islamic Party were gunned down by four assassins.

On Saturday, a dozen bodies were found in Baghdad in the shadowy war of Shiite-Sunni reprisals.

British Defense Secretary John Reid, who is visiting Iraq, expressed concern about "a greater degree of sectarian violence," but said he did not believe civil war was imminent. "The most urgent need at the moment is the speedy formation of a government of national unity," he said.

In a U.S. radio address, President Bush said the violence in Iraq "has created a new sense of urgency" among Iraqi leaders to form such a government.

Those leaders — representatives of the squabbling Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish blocs in Iraq's new parliament — were taking a break from negotiations to observe Monday's Shiite holiday and Tuesday's Kurdish new year.

They are deadlocked over how to apportion the most powerful jobs in the new government, as minority factions seek to limit domination by Iraq's Shiite majority.

The U.S. military reported that two 101st Airborne soldiers were killed Thursday by indirect fire — usually meaning mortars — at the Speicher operating base, north of where the joint Iraqi-U.S. operation was in progress.

At least 2,314 American military personnel have died since the Iraq war began in the early hours of March 20, 2003.


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However secretarian violence also continues in Iraq, some of it by Iraqi allies of America and other crimes commited by insurgents.
 

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Re: Darkbeaver's article correct: 8 civilians killed in vill

Now I am not jumping to conclusions or anything but this does kind of back the claim of 11 lives. Including a child was in darkbeaver's article and in this article.

But more evidence has to be found.