2 killed, 5 wounded in Iraq violence until Saturday afternoon.Byline: AE BAGHDAD, July 12 (VOI VOI Voice Over Internet VOI Volume of Interest (medical imaging) VOI Venus Orbit Insertion (NASA) VOI Value of Information (decision making) VOI Value of Investment ) Co Two people were killed and five others wounded in acts of violence in different areas of Iraq during the period from Friday evening until Saturday afternoon, according to security sources. In Baghdad, the Iraqi police said an improvised explosive device Noun 1. improvised explosive device - an explosive device that is improvised I.E.D., IED explosive device - device that bursts with sudden violence from internal energy went of in the southern Baghdad area of al-Dora, leaving two civilians wounded. A short while later a second IED Noun 1. IED - an explosive device that is improvised I.E.D., improvised explosive device explosive device - device that bursts with sudden violence from internal energy blast ripped through the area of Ras al-Hawash, in al-Adhamiya town, targeting a U.S. patrol, but the casualties could not be known. In Mosul, 405 km north of Baghdad, an official Iraqi army source said unidentified gunmen in a vehicle opened fire on Friday evening at a civilian near his home in Aden neighborhood, eastern Mosul, killing him instantly before escaping to an unknown place. In Kirkuk, 250 km northeast of Baghdad, a police source in the city said an IED went off in the area of Taseen, southwestern Kirkuk, near the vehicle of a police chief, Col. Ahmed Shmirani, wounding him and a Lt. Colonel in his company. "The explosion, however, killed a woman and wounded another who were happened to be nearby the blast scene," the source told Aswat al-Iraq Co Voices of Iraq Co (VOI). In Diwaniya, Ghassan Muhammad, the commander of the Diwaniya Emergency Force, told VOI that five men were arrested from inside the Imam Ali mosque The Imam Ali Holy Shrine (Arabic: حرم الإمام علي), also known as Meshed Ali or the Tomb of Ali, is a mosque located in Najaf, Iraq. in the city during the Friday prayers. In Diala, Maj. General Ghanim al-Qurayshi said a joint Iraqi-U.S. force on Saturday captured 10 members of al-Qaeda network, including three leading operatives of the self-styled Islamic State of Iraq The Islamic State of Iraq is an Islamist umbrella organization or empirical state of Iraqi insurgent groups established on October 15, 2006[1] "to protect the Sunni Iraqi people and defend Islam, by the Khalf al-Mutayibeen[2]". group in an airdrop air·drop n. A delivery, as of supplies or troops, by parachute from aircraft. tr. & intr.v. air·dropped, air·drop·ping, air·drops To drop or be dropped from an aircraft. Noun 1. operation in southern Baaquba. "A Diala police force, backed by U.S. troops, conducted an airdrop operation that targeted the strongholds of al-Qaeda in the area of Bazayez, Buhrez district, (5 km) southern Baaquba, arresting 10 al-Qaeda members," Qurayshi told VOI. "Three amirs (leaders) and a man called Majid Hamid al-Jemeili, the agriculture minister in the so-called Islamic State of Iraq, were among the captured gunmen," he added. In Basra, 590 km south of the Iraqi capital, the interior ministry said in a statement on Saturday that security forces in the district of al-Zubair captured two wanted men, defused three IEDs and seized an amount of arms and munitions mu·ni·tion n. War materiel, especially weapons and ammunition. Often used in the plural. tr.v. mu·ni·tioned, mu·ni·tion·ing, mu·ni·tions To supply with munitions. . Copyright A[umlaut umlaut (  m`lout) [Ger.,=transformed sound], in inflection, variation of vowels of the type of English man to men. ] 2008 Aswat al-Iraq
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