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Five Iraqis Killed in Bombings, Shooting Attacks
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?ctl=15B68D5:A6F02AD83191E1606815397B8CC2B6079574F7DCC14957C0 Officials says at
least one person also was killed and three others wounded when a car
bomb exploded near a gasoline station in Mahmoudiya





An Iraqi policeman secures the site where a car bomb exploded at a
market in the northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk, 10 Jan 2007

Iraqi officials say five people were killed and several others wounded
in suicide bombings in northern Iraq Wednesday.

Officials say four were killed when a bomber struck a crowded area in
Tal Afar. A child was killed in a separate attack in the same area.

South of Baghdad, in Mahmoudiya, at least one person was killed and
three others were wounded when a car bomb exploded near a gasoline
station.



The U.S. military also announced that two American soldiers died
Tuesday from combat wounds suffered in Anbar province.

On Tuesday, U.S. and Iraqi troops fought hours-long battles with
insurgents in Baghdad's Haifa Street area, a known stronghold of Sunni
insurgents. Iraqi officials said 50 insurgents were killed.

In other news, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said the execution of
two of Saddam Hussein's co-defendants - Barzan Ibrahim and Awad Hamed
al-Bandar - should be delayed.

The two were sentenced to death with Saddam Hussein for involvement in
the killings of 148 Shi'ites in the village of Dujail in the 1980s.

No date has been announced for their execution.

Saddam was executed December 30. Footage of his hanging, recorded on a
cellphone, showed him being taunted before the execution.

Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.


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