European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 30, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday March 30 2007 stars and stripes pages shiite militants police go on killing spree after bombings by Sinan Salaheddin the associated press Baghdad shiite militants and police enraged by massive truck bombings in Tal afar went on a revenge spree against sunni residents in the Northwestern town wednesday killing As Many As 70 people officials said the gunmen roamed sunni neighbourhoods in the City through the night shooting at residents and Homes according to police and a local sunni politician witnesses said relatives of the shiite victims in the truck bomb Ings broke into the sunni Homes and killed the men inside or dragged them out and shot them in the streets Gen Khurshid Aldo ski the iraqi army commander in charge of the area said 70 were shot in the Back of the head and 40 peo ple were kidnapped a senior hos Pital official in Tal afar who spoke on condition of anonymity out of Security concerns said 45 men were killed the Hospital official said the Vic Tims were men Between the Ages of 15 and 60 police said earlier dozens of sunnis were killed or wounded but they had no precise figures and communications problems made it difficult to reach them for an update outraged sunni groups blamed shiite led Security forces for the killings prime minister Nouri Alma Likis office ordered an investigation and the us com Mand offered to provide Assis Tance army troops later moved into Alaa relatives Cany a coffin of Mohammed Attya a Engineer killed by unknown gunmen in Baghdad during his funeral in the shiite holy City of Najaf Iraq on wednesday in Tal afar shiite militants and police reportedly went on a killing spree in sunni neighbourhoods to avenge recent truck bombings the sunni areas to Stop the Vio Lence and a curfew was slapped on the entire town according to Wathis Alhamdan the Provin Cial police chief and his head of operations Brig Abdulkarim Aljubouri the situation is under control now Alhamdan said the local Tal afar police have been confined to their bases and police men from Mosul Are moving there to replace them Tal afar 260 Miles Northwest of Baghdad is in the province of Ninevah of which Mosul is the capital it is a mainly turkmen City with some 60 percent of its residents adhering to shiite islam and the rest mostly sunnis the violence came a Day after two truck bombs shattered markets in the City killing at least 63 people and wounding dozens in the second assault in four Days after tuesdays bombings suspected sunni insurgents tried to ambush ambulances carrying the injured out of the Northwestern City but were driven off by police gunfire iraqi authorities said the carnage was the worst bloodshed in a surge of violence across Iraq As militants on both sides of the sectarian Divide apparently have fled to other parts of the country to avoid a us iraqi Security crackdown raising ten Sions outside the capital dozens of gis iraqis wounded in suicide attack by Sandra Jontz stars and stripes fal Lujah Iraq dozens of iraqi and american soldiers were wounded or sickened wednesday morning in a Complex attack on the fal Lujah government Center iraqi police and army soldiers thwarted two suicide bombers driving trucks containing chlorine in an attempt at striking the facility in the heart of downtown Fallu Jah us military officials said the coordinated attack began at am near the compound with mortar fire followed by the two truck bombs and Small arms fire said Marine 1st it Barry Edwards a spokesman for us Marine regimental combat team 6 iraqi police fired on both of the trucks causing them to detonate near the Entrance of the com Pound according to a Multi nation Al Force West Public affairs news release several iraqi soldiers and us forces were wounded by shrapnel Edwards said dozens of others were treated for exposure to chlo Rine after complaining of symptoms such As difficulty breathing nausea skin irritation and vomit ing in All the wounded and those treated for exposure to chlorine included 53 iraqi soldiers four iraqi police 14 us service members and one civilian Edwards said the wounded and sick were treated at the 2nd iraqi army Bri Gades Aid station and a coalition medical facility the release stated wednesdays chlorine Gas at tack was the eighth launched since Jan 28 when a suicide bomber driving a dump truck filled with explosives and a chlo Rine tank struck a Quick reaction Force and iraqi police in ramada killing 16 people according to the associated press us military officials have linked the chlorine bomb attacks to the Al Aida in Iraq group and Are said to be relatively easy weapons for insurgents to make the response of the iraqi Security forces in fal Lujah on wednes Day is another indication of the Progress that is being made by the iraqi army and Iraq police Edwards said the alertness of the iraqi Security forces saved lives today the wednesday attack was the 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