Fresh Wave Of Violence In Iraq Leaves

Juan Cole 07/20/2004

Fresh Wave of Violence in Iraq Leaves 10 Dead, 62 Wounded

Reuters reports that a suicide bomber set off a massive explosion by targeting a fuel tanker near a police station in Baghdad on Monday, killing 9 and wounding 62. There have been five such bombings of police or national guards in recent days, and several violent incidents in the capital.

Late Sunday night, 3 guerrillas assassinated a high official of the Defense Ministry, Issam Jassem Qassim. On Saturday, guerrillas had attempted but failed to kill Iraq’s minister of Justice, though they succeeded in killing or wounding a number of other persons.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Distinguished University Professor in the History Department at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page