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Posted on Fri, May. 25, 2007
Roundup of violence in Iraq
By Laith Hammoudi
McClatchy Newspapers

The daily Iraq violence report is compiled by McClatchy Newspapers in Baghdad from police, military and medical reports. This is not a comprehensive list of all violence in Iraq, much of which goes unreported. All times are Iraq local times.

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BAGHDAD

-Armed men destroyed between three to five meters of the bridge linking the neighborhoods of Adil and Khadraa in west Baghdad. Police said that the gunmen used improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the latest in a series of attacks on bridges in Baghdad. The incident took place early Friday morning. No casualties were reported.
-A civilian was killed in an IED explosion in the Doura neighborhood of southwest Baghdad around 1:10 p.m. Friday.
-A civilian was killed and another was injured when a mortar shell hit the Jamiaa neighborhood of west Baghdad around 1:20 p.m. Friday.
-Around 1:10 p.m. Friday, a U.S. convoy was targeted by an IED in the Amil neighborhood of southwest Baghdad. U.S. forces blocked the area. No casualties were reported.
-Two civilians were killed and seven others were injured when a mortar shell hit the Amil neighborhood of southwest Baghdad at 8 p.m Friday.
-A civilian was killed and eight others wounded when a mortar shell hit Abu Disheer area in the Doura neighborhood of south Baghdad at 8 p.m. Friday.
-Twenty anonymous bodies were found in Baghdad Friday.

Thirteen bodies were found in Karkh, the western part of Baghdad: four in Amil; three in Bayaa; two in Shula; one in Hurriyah; one in Rahmaniyah; one in Jiaifar and one in Jamiaa.

Seven bodies were found in Rusafa, the eastern part of Baghdad: four in Sadr City; one in Ur; one in Adhemiyah and one in Fadhil.

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DIYALA PROVINCE

-Colonel Hussein Abbas Kadhim, the commander of the town of Jdaidat Al Shat, said that gunmen of the Islamic State of Iraq broke into nearby orchards and executed three farmers.
-A source in the joint operations center in Diyala said that four police officers from the Muqdadiyah police force and six civilians were injured when a suicide car bomber detonated near a Muqdadiyah police station around 10 a.m. Friday.
-Governmental and security sources in the town of Baladruz confirmed that a combined security force raided a gunman's safe house early Friday morning. Mushtaq al-Diani was arrested. The sources said "Al Diani is responsible for many insurgencies in Baqouba city and Muqdadiyah town."

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TAMIM PROVINCE

-Police said that an IED exploded near Al Ebada, a village on the Kirkuk-Daqooq motorway, at 8:20 a.m. Friday. The IED targeted a car and the driver was injured.

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BASRA PROVINCE

-A source from Sadr office conformed the deaths of two Sadrists, including a leader of the Mahdi army in Basra. The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that the Sadrist men were killed by Iraqi army soldiers supported by British forces in a commercial street in downtown Basra City around 3:15 p.m. Friday.

For additional Iraq coverage - including previous days' roundups of violence - go to the McClatchy Washington Bureau Web site, www.mcclatchydc.com.