Saturday, January 27, 2007

New Baghdad attacks kills 13

Iraq -- Bomb and mortar attacks throughout Baghdad Saturday left 13 dead and 51 wounded, Baghdad police officials told CNN.

In a busy market located in the capital's southeastern section two car bombs exploded minutes apart, killing at least 13 people and wounding 42 others, a police official said.

The first explosions was from a suicide car bomb and the second, which exploded minutes later, was from a bomb stashed in a car.

In the northwestern Baghdad neighborhood of Hurriya, nine people were wounded when two mortar rounds landed on a residential area Saturday, a Baghdad police official said.

Meanwhile, south of Baquba -- a city about 37 miles north of Baghdad -- coalition forces killed 14 suspected terrorists in an airstrike and arrested two more during a morning raid targeting foreign fighter safehouses, the U.S. military said.

Baghdad police also told CNN gunmen dressed as Iraqi national police stormed a computer company in eastern Baghdad Friday afternoon and kidnapped seven people before speeding off in three separate vehicles.

Meanwhile, the Bush administration has authorized the U.S. military to capture or kill Iranian agents in Iraq who are plotting attacks against U.S. and coalition forces, a U.S. national security official said Friday.

The policy, approved by President Bush in the last couple of months, is aimed at Iranian agents planning attacks with Iraqi militiamen, the official said

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