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Titolo: Esportando la democrazia

Blasts and assassinations hit Baghdad 
Thursday 12 May 2005, 12:37 Makka Time, 9:37 GMT   
At least 15 Iraqis have been killed and up to 84 injured after two car
bombs exploded in Baghdad, just hours after an Iraqi brigadier-general
and a police colonel were assassinated.
Several civilians are believed to have died in the first explosion
that hit security officials as they were eating in al-Zahawi
restaurant in the capital's eastern Baghdad al-Jadida district.
Speaking to witnesses and police officials at the scene, Aljazeera
reports that between 15 and 20 people died in the twin blasts.
Less is known about the second explosion, although Aljazeera learned
that it was within the vicinity of al-Samarai mosque in the same
district.
Shootings
Both attacks come after senior army officer Iyad Imad Mahdi was shot
several times as he drove to work at the Ministry of Defence on
Thursday morning in the western quarter of the Iraqi capital.
Mahdi was already dead by the time he arrived at Yarmuk hospital at
7.15 am (0315 GMT).
And one hour earlier, unknown assailants also shot police Colonel
Jamal Ahmed Hussein several times.
Hussein was killed as he set off for work at the Interior Ministry. He
was gunned down in the al-Amin district in southeast Baghdad and died
on arrival at the Kindi hospital.
Medical sources in Falluja have also reported the deaths of three
members of Iraqi National Guard and the injuries of several more after
their patrol was attacked in the city's centre.
More attacks
Meanwhile, a policemen and two civilians were also wounded in two
separate bomb explosions on a road near the northern Iraqi city of
Kirkuk, according to Kirkuk police chief General Turhan Yussef.
Yussef said the first bomb exploded around 9.20am on the road leading
north and wounded a police officer, followed by a second bomb 2km out
of town that injured a couple of civilians.
And the US military announced on Thursday that two marines were killed
on Wednesday when their armoured vehicle drove over a mine in
northwest Iraq during an offensive against fighters.
A statement added that 14 more were wounded in the same blast. Since
the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, at least 1610 US troops have died
in Iraq.
Aljazeera has also learned that an Iraqi soldier and a civilian were
killed in two separate attacks in the city of Samarra.
Previous toll
The assassinations and attacks come a day after at least 81 Iraqis
were killed and more than 150 wounded in a series of bomb attacks in
northern Iraq.
Elsewhere, a 1000-strong US force backed by aircraft battling fighters
in the west of the country near al-Qaim in the past few days, claim to
have killed up to 100 Iraqi fighters. 
Aljazeera + Agencies
Brevi
http://www.peacereporter.net/default_news.php?idn=6808
 
Afghanistan - 2005-05-12 12:31:00
Proteste per profanazione Corano: 7 morti in totale
Tre persone sono morte, e almeno altre cinque sono rimaste ferite
nell'oriente afghano durante le manifestazioni contro la profanazione
del Corano che avviene nel carcere di Guantanamo, a Cuba, da parte dei
soldati statunitensi durante gli interrogatori ai prigionieri. Queste
ultime vittime portano a sette il conteggio dei morti nelle
manifestazioni esplose in molte province del Paese, e che proseguono
oggi anche a Kabul.
 

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