Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[seabass]

>>>LOL At the moment I posted that it was quiet.<<<


A summary of the quietness that preceded your post yesterday (precede means it all happened before your post):


"A parked car bomb detonated Tuesday in Baghdad's upscale Mansour neighborhood, killing at least six people and wounding 18 others as violence remained unabated around Iraq.

Bombings, mortar attacks and shootings overnight and on Tuesday left at least 24 people dead and dozens wounded around Iraq, police and military officials said.

In Middadiyah, a town just outside the city of Baqouba northeast of the capital, a roadside bomb next to a market killed at least four people and wounded 24 others, police said.

In the same area late Monday, gunmen assaulted a Shiite mosque with mortars and assault rifles, killing seven people and wounding three.

In northern Mosul, gunmen attacked and killed four unidentified Kurds and injured another, said Ahmed Abdul-Aziz, a doctor at of Jumhouri Hospital.

A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol exploded in eastern Baghdad's Zaiyouna neighborhood in eastern Baghdad, wounding three police officers and a civilian, police said.

Gunmen killed police brigadier Ziad Ramzi in central Mosul city. The officer was in plain clothes when he was shot, said Nineveh police brigadier Saeid Ahmeed.

Two armed men were killed and four Iraqi soldiers were injured in a firefight between Iraqi forces and gunmen in the Qadisiyah area in eastern Rawah, 175 miles northwest of Baghdad, the Iraqi military said.

The attacks came a day after at least 26 people died and five bodies turned up in city streets and rivers."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/13/iraq/main2003158.shtml