Security incidents in Iraq, July 9

09 Jul 2005 08:39:12 GMTSource: ReutersBAGHDAD, July 9 (Reuters) - Following are security incidents reported in Iraq on July 9 as of 0730 GMT. U.S. and Iraqi forces are battling a Sunni Arab insurgency against the Shi'ite-Kurdish-led government in Baghdad. MOSUL - Eleven Iraqis -- including two soldiers and a police officer -- were shot dead throughout the flashpoint city of Mosul in separate attacks on Friday, hospital officials said. In the worst attack, four civilians travelling from Baghdad were dragged out of their car and shot in the south of the city. BAIJI - A family of four were shot dead on Saturday in the northern town of Baiji when gunmen stormed their house at dawn and killed a husband, wife and their children, five and two years old, police Major Ali al-Qeysi said. Residents said the man may have worked for a foreign company. BAQUBA - An Iraqi civilian was killed by a roadside bomb 8 km (5 miles) east of Baquba while driving an old white pick-up truck on the road, police said. No military targets were nearby at the time of the blast. BAGHDAD - Police killed three insurgents driving a car packed with explosives in western Baghdad's Ghazaliya district on Thursday evening, a U.S military statement said. The car was stopped at a routine police checkpoint but attempted to escape before police shot dead the occupants. (Reporting by Maher al-Thanoon in Mosul, Amer Salman in Tikrit and Faris al-Mehdawi in Baquba and Mussab al-Khairalla in Baghdad) http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KHA927051.htm