The Liberation of Iraq : Day 1391

L'Orient Le Jour 23rd January 2007 Beirut
It was a bloody day in Iraq with more than 100 killed and 200 wounded.

1. A bombing in Baquba, NE of Baghdad . A double attack with the booby-trapped car with 88 dead and over 160 wounded. (pic)

2. At Bab Al-Charki on the banks of the Tigris where 2 car bombs exploded in a flea market and over 12 cars were set ablaze.

3. In Abou Dchir in Baghdad 4 civilians were killed was killed by mortar shells.

4. In Khales armed men killed a Policeman and 27 corpses were discovered.

5. In Khalès, close to Baquba, 12 people who were killed yesterday and 40 wounded in a double attack, wiht a bomb and mortar shells on a popular market.

6. 28 American soldiers have died in 2 days, including a soldier was killed and 4 wounded in the explosion of an home made bomb in the province of Ninive. 12 died on Saturday when a Blackhawk helicopter, was borught down by a ground to air missile in the North-East of Baghdad which a local branch of Al Quaeda claimed responsibility for.

The same day, 5 American soldiers were killed by gunmen dressed in US and Police uniforms in the Holy City of Kerbala

7. The US army announced that 93 Al Quaeda guerrillas were killed and 57 others captured,in Diyala province.

8. Government spokesmen Ali Dabbagh, spokesman of the government. asked for the release by the US of the radical chief Moqtada Sadr Shiite arrested last Friday.