The Moscow Times: Bombs Kill a Dozen in Iraq during Bush visit, PM Vows Revenge
A series of explosions struck the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Tuesday, killing at least 16 people, as Iraq's prime minister promised to show "no mercy" to terrorists and said his long-awaited security plan for Baghdad would include a curfew and a weapons ban. The attacks came after al-Qaida in Iraq on Monday named a successor to terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and said he would continue in the slain leader's path, moving quickly to show it can keep up its campaign of attacks against Shiites and U.S. and Iraqi forces.
The attacks in Kirkuk began at 7:45 a.m. local time when a parked bomb targeted a police patrol in the city center, killing 10 people, including two policemen and eight civilians, and wounding nine people, Brigadier General Sarhat Qadir said. Some 30 minutes later, guards opened fire on a suspected suicide car bomber trying to pass through a checkpoint at the Kirkuk police directorate. The car exploded, killing five people, including two policemen and three civilians, and wounding six people.
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