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At least six dead in Iraq attacks.


Summary: Gubmen killed at least six people in a spate of attacks across Iraq on Sunday, including a suicide car bombing at a checkpoint (programming) checkpoint - Saving the current state of a program and its data, including intermediate results, to disk or other non-volatile storage, so that if interrupted the program could be restarted at the point at which the last checkpoint occurred.  in the northern province of Kirkuk, security officials said.

Gunmen killed at least six people in a spate of attacks across Iraq on Sunday, including a suicide car bombing at a checkpoint in the northern province of Kirkuk, security officials said. A bomber slammed his explosives-filled car into the checkpoint where a group of youngsters had gathered to be taken to a police recruitment centre, Kirkuk deputy chief of police Major General Torhan Yussef told AFP (1) (AppleTalk Filing Protocol) The file sharing protocol used in an AppleTalk network. In order for non-Apple networks to access data in an AppleShare server, their protocols must translate into the AFP language. See file sharing protocol. .

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1. To cause physical harm to; hurt.

2. To cause damage to; impair.

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 when a roadside bomb blasted blast·ed  
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2. Slang Drunk or intoxicated.

3. Blighted, withered, or shriveled.
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A small bus typically used for short trips.


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 in the village of Al-Murjana, 100 kilometres northwest of Baquba, the capital of Diyala province, police said.

In the capital itself, gunmen killed Brigadier General Adel Abbas, a senior officer in the interior ministry's criminal investigation department, as he was driving to work, security officials said. Abbas was killed near his home in Baghdad's Hail Hail, city, Saudi Arabia
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 Adel neighbourhood, the officials said, adding that his driver was wounded.

Gunmen also tried to kill Ghasan Ridha, a director in the finance ministry, by planting a bomb in his car in Baghdad. Ridha was wounded in the attack.

In Baghdad's Waziriyah neighbourhood, seven people including three Iraqi soldiers were hurt when their patrol was hit by a roadside bomb near the Turkish embassy, security officials said. And in the north of the city, a similar attack targeting a police patrol wounded five more people including a policeman, they added.

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Date:Sep 21, 2008
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