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22 killed in Iraq

BAGHDAD: Twenty-two people including four US soldiers have died in a series of attacks in Iraq since Sunday evening, while a journalist, her son, and three men working for the US military have been kidnapped, according separate security sources and a statement from a militant group.

An Iraqi truck driver was killed overnight in an attack northeast of Baghdad on his convoy carrying equipment for the Iraqi army, police said. Two other drivers were missing. A teacher at Baiji’s Oil Institute died on Monday in a bomb attack, while an Iraqi soldier was killed in a mortar attack outside Samarra and an Iraqi civilian died in an attack on a chemist’s, southeast of Samarra, security sources said.

In Mosul, police Lt Col Essam Fathi was shot dead as he left home, police said, and in the same city gunmen kidnapped Raeda Wazzan, a journalist working for a government-funded television station, along with her son, aged 10, a TV executive said.

An Interior Ministry source said that four people had died in separate attacks in the capital.

A group calling itself the “Horror Brigades” of the Islamic army in Iraq said it had kidnapped three subcontractors, including a Turk, working for the US military.

In Mosul, Iraqi security forces killed an insurgent after their patrol came under attack, the US military said, adding that US forces had killed a taxi driver in Tall Afar after he failed to stop. In Kirkuk, one Iraqi was killed by a car bomb and two more in an apparently accidental blast, police said. Also in Kirkuk, two Kurds were killed in the apparently accidental explosion of an ammunition dump dating back to before the US-led invasion, Yussef said. East of Baquba, gunmen ambushed and killed an Iraqi soldier as he went home, an army officer said. In Basra, two civilians were wounded when a bomb exploded as an Iraqi police patrol passed, a police spokesman said.

Iraqi security forces have killed one and captured two of the top men producing websites showing hostages being tortured, and have captured another top ‘terrorist’ linked to Al-Qaeda, the government said on Sunday.

Meanwhile, three US soldiers were killed and eight wounded on Monday in a bomb attack in Iraq while a US Marine was killed in Al-Anbar province, the US military said. Separately, Shias and their clergy-backed United Iraqi Alliance met on Monday in Baghdad to renew discussions over who their prime ministerial candidate would be. But instead of narrowing the choices down, the field for potential candidates has grown to four, maybe even five, insiders said.

Two Indonesian television reporters who had been held captive in Iraq have been released and are leaving the conflict-ridden country, Indonesia’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday. agencies

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