Thirty-two Killed, 60 Injured in Baghdad Taxi Bomb

Friday Jan. 27: In yet another horrific bombing in Baghdad, a taxi bomb blew up this morning in the city’s predominantly Shia Muslim district of Zafaraniya, killing 32 and injuring 60. The suicide bomber struck as mourners were participating  in a funeral procession for a Shia man shot dead the day before. Junior doctor Lubna Kajl who  works in a hospital in the area told BBC that the day’s events were horrific, but were becoming normal. (BBC)

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Body of Kurdistan Border Guard Found

Friday Jan. 27: The body of a Kurdistan border guard Wisam Jumaa was found brutally stabbed east of Baghdad in Khanaqin’s Saadiya district today. Sources claim Jumaa was savagely stabbed and his body tossed in an orchard. (AKnews)

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House Bombing Near Hilla Kills 10 and Injures 4

Thursday Jan. 26: At least ten people were killed and four injured this evening when insurgents blew up a house owned by two brothers who worked for security forces in the Shiite dominated town of al-Musayyab located north of Hilla in Babil province. (AKnews)

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Bodies of Three Men Found in Mosul

Thursday Jan. 26: Police in Nineveh province found the bodies of three men in three differnt locations in Mosul today. The bodies showed marks of torture and there were gunshot marks on their heads and chests. (AKnews)

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Civilian Killed by IED in Nineveh

Thursday Jan. 26: A civilian was killed today in the province of Nineveh when an improvised explosive device struck his car on the road linking Mosul and the town of al-Shura. (AKnews)

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Four Killed, Five Injured in Three Sticky Bomb Attacks in Kirkuk

Thursday Jan. 26: A sticky bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded in Kirkuk’s Tiseen neighborhood today, killing three and injuring three others. Aslo last night in the city’s Shorija neighborhood two people were injured when a sticky bomb exploded on a private car. Another civilian was killed in southern Kirkuk by a sticky bomb explosion. (AKnews)

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Representative’s Guard Killed in Kirkuk

Thursday Jan. 26: One of the guards of State  of Law Coalition member Hachem al-Hassani was killed today after a bomb attached to his car exploded near the southern entrance to Kirkuk. (AKnews)

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Imam and Brother Killed by Gunman in Mosul

Thursday Jan. 26: The Imam of Sadiq Mosque of Cairo and his brother were killed by armed gunmen in Mosul yesterday as they left the Mosque after prayers. (AKnews)

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CATO on State of the Union 2012

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Report for Tuesday Jan. 24

Tuesday Jan. 24: A Sawha force member was killed Monday evening in Diyala province when a bomb exploded under his car in Tuz Khurmalu parish. Also an Iraqi army officer was injured in Diyala province when a car bomb exploded near the KDP headquarters in Jalawla parish.  (AKnews)

Tuesday Jan. 24: Three civilians were killed and 17 others injured by a car bombing in Baghdad’s Sadr City district. (AKnews)

 Tuesday Jan. 24: Two police commissaries from Kirkuk’s Rahinawa neighborhood were injured when a sticky bomb exploded on their convoy as they passed though the Askari neighborhood on their way to the office. (AKnews)

Tuesday Jan. 24: A police officer and all four members of his family were killed in Baghdad’s Abu-Ghrayib district when gunmen placed three explosives around his house at dawn. (AKnews)

Tuesday Jan. 24: A car bomb in western Baghdad’s Shiite neighborhood of Sho’la killed three civilians and injured 12. This was the second attack on a Shiite dominated area on Tuesday. The earlier attack in Sadr City left 20 killed and injured. (AKnews)

Tuesday Jan. 24: Two Peshmarga force members and a gunman were killed in a clash between Pershmarga forces and armed gunmen Nineveh’s Sinjar parish. (AKnews)

Tuesday Jan. 24: A civilian was killed east of Tikrit when he passed too close to  security forces who were trying to defuse a roadside bomb. (AKnews)

Tuesday Jan. 24: Two civilians were killed and three injured when a motor bike laden with explosives blew up in central Ramadi. (AKnews)

Tuesday Jan. 24: A civilian was killed and another injured in Salahaddin when an improvised explosive device exploded on a highway connecting Tikrit to the al-Shirgat district. (AKnews)

Tuesday Jan. 24: Three people were killed and four injured when insurgents attacked two houses in a village near Fallujah. They attacked the houses with IEDs. (AKnews)

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