Baghdad - At least 12 people were killed and 23 injured in
violence in Iraq Thursday, including five policemen in a US gunship
shelling, while the Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called for a
million-man march marking the anniversary of US occupation of the
country.
Al-Sadr called on all Iraqis to take part in a million-man march
on April 9 starting from the Shiite holy city of Najaf to mark the
fifth anniversary of the US-led occupation of the country, according
to a statement issued by al-Sadr's office in the city.
The call was made to Iraq's 'Sunnis, Shiites, Kurds and Arabs.'
'It is time you expressed your rejection of the unjust occupiers
and raise your voices against them,' the statement said.
Al-Sadr, believed to be currently in Iran, urged people to raise
Iraqi flags in the march to confirm national unity and to call for
independence.
In Hilla, south of Baghdad, security officials told Deutsche
Presse-Agentur dpa that night guards opened fire by mistake on a US
patrol in the early hours on Thursday in Jamiyah district in the city
centre.
Later, a US gunship shelled the scene of the shooting, killing
five policemen and injuring 11, including two women in their homes,
the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said.
The US military has not yet issued a statement about the incident
in Hilla.
In the northern city of Mosul, seven people were killed and 12
injured, in a suicide bombing overnight, the Voices of Iraq (VOI)
news agency reported.
A suicide bomber driving a car bomb blew it up near a checkpoint
in west Mosul, General Khaled Abdel-Sattar, the spokesman for the
operation command in Nineveh province, told VOI.
A woman and a child are among the dead and five children and three
soldiers among the wounded.
bubbaApr 3rd, 2008 - 12:21:49
worthless Iraqi Army...Gomer Pyle by himself can defeat this Iraqi Army...they just need to have everyone pull out for about 3 months and let these Muslims kill each other off..then come back and burn the dead bodies and fertilize the trees and feed the pigs with the left-overs.
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