DAILY WAR NEWS FOR FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2006

Today in Iraq

Two British security contractors were killed and their driver injured when a roadside bomb blasted their vehicle on the road between Karbala and Najaf. Hillah’s police station was the scene of a bomb explosion. Colonel Salam al-Maamuri and five others died when a bomb planted inside the building went off. Twelve others were wounded. Al-Maamuri was the head of the Scorpion squad, a special operations unit. Near Dhuluiya, the bodies of 14 workers were found in an orchard; they were bound and their throats were slit. The laborers were from Balad and part of a group of 17 known kidnap victims. Sheikh Radhi al-Assadi was gunned down near Basra. He was the head of a local Shi’ite religious association. Near Suwayrah, gunmen killed six peasants and two children, all female, in an orchard; two other women were kidnapped. Two guards from a sewage facility were found dead in a market...

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