[Shadow_Group] Seven killed in bus shooting in Ramadi

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Seven killed in bus shooting in Ramadi
November 21, 2004 - 9:43PM

FROM:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/After-Saddam/Seven-killed-in-bus-shooting-in-Ramadi/2004/11/21/1100972258102.html<http://www.smh.com.au/news/After-Saddam/Seven-killed-in-bus-shooting-in-Ramadi/2004/11/21/1100972258102.html>
Seven people have been killed when a bus they were
travelling in through the Iraqi city of Ramadi came
under fire, police and witnesses said.

Ramadi police chief Brigadier Jasim al-Dulaimi said US
troops on Saturday opened fire on the bus, which was
riddled with bullets, as it passed the governorate
building in the central Hay al-Andalous area.

The US military had no immediate comment.

Reuters Television footage showed the bus peppered
with bullet holes. Some of the windows were shattered
and others spattered with blood. Flies buzzed around
corpses in the vehicle, as men carried away bodies and
loaded them into cars.

Ramadi, 110 kilometres west of Baghdad, is one of the
main strongholds of Sunni Muslim insurgents fighting
US-led troops and the interim Iraqi government.

Earlier this month, the US military launched a fierce
assault on nearby Fallujah to try to wipe out
guerillas in the city.

US forces have also sealed off some areas of Ramadi.

Meanwhile, saboteurs set ablaze another well in Iraq's
northern oilfields overnight, bringing to six the
number firefighters are trying to extinguish in the
region, security guards said on Sunday.

"Saboteurs exploded a bomb, setting oil well number 20
on fire," said Lieutenant Colonel Hammudi Ali, of the
security force operating for the state-owned North Oil
Company.

The well is located in the Al-Khabbaza field, west of
the city of Kirkuk, where five other wells were
already ablaze following previous attacks.

"The firefighters are still trying to put out the
fires, but so far they haven't managed to extinguish a
single one," Lieutenant Colonel Ali said.

Guards thwarted a second sabotage attempt overnight,
killing one assailant and wounding another, at a well
further west, said Colonel Nawzad Ahmed, also from the
oilfields protection force.

In an audio message posted on the internet a week ago,
a man claiming to be Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, Iraq's
most wanted man, urged insurgents to attack oil
facilities around the country in their battle against
the US military presence.

A joint operation by Iraqi police and National Guards
in Baghdad and central Babil province will be launched
this week against insurgents operating in a belt of
cities south of the capital, police said on Sunday.

"We and the Baghdad police, with the participation of
the National Guards will purge the regions of Haswa,
Latifiya, and Mahmoudiya," said police Captain Hadi
Hatif. "We will work on two fronts to carry out this
mission."

The three towns, which are 30 to 50 kilometres south
of the capital, have been a major area of insurgent
activity.

US and Iraqi forces have come under repeated attacks
by car bombs, rockets, and small arms fire in the
area.

The region has become known as a "triangle of death"
for many Shiite Muslims, Westerners and members of the
Iraqi security services, many of whom have become the
victims of Sunni Muslim insurgents and criminal gangs.

Captain Hatif said the operation would also
concentrate on more rural and remote regions
surrounding the towns.

He also said that Hillah police managed to capture
four leaders of terror groups operating in the area,
though he declined to give details



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