European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 3, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages stars and stripes tuesday april 3 2007 Emad girls in school uniforms lie in a Hospital bed in Kirkuk Iraq on monday a suicide truck bomber targeted a police station in the Oil Rich Northern City of Kirkuk on monday killing at least 14 people and wounding Doz ens including Many children from a nearby school police said blast kills 14 in Kirkuk suicide bomber targets Iraq police station six gis killed Over weekend by Yahya Barzanji the associated press Baghdad a suicide truck bomber his deadly payload hid Den under bags of flour crashed into a police station monday in the disputed City of Kirkuk kill ing at least 14 people including an Newborn girl and wounding nearly 200 police found the Bod ies of 21 executed shiite men in bad Cuba an hours drive North of the capital several girls on their Way Home from nearby school were among those wounded in the bombing a possible prelude to the spread of major scenes of chaos to Kirkuk Days earlier the government adopted a highly controversial plan to move thousands of arabs out of the Oil Rich City Arab politicians mainly minority sunnis have rejected the plan saying it would facilitate attempts by nonarae kurd to absorb the City and its surrounding Oil riches into the ethnic groups Semi Auton Otmous Region in the Northeast of Iraq Turkey which has been fighting a kurdish insurgency it its Southeast for decades also has warned Iraq against such a move mondays blast bore the Hall Marks of the latest in the Long series of Al Aida suicide bombings aimed at further provoking sectarian tension and fighting it Fol Lowed three suicide bombings last week by suspected Al Aida fighters the Kirkuk blast also was the third in seven Days where suicide bombers hit targets with their bombs hidden under loads of flour a commodity that has been scarce in some outlying districts the government had Only recently resumed shipping flour rations to some of those areas video by an associated press cameraman showed at least four wounded us soldiers and one badly damaged american hum Vee the soldiers were being treated by army medics with one seated while having Gauze bandages wound around his bloodied head another Soldier whose nose was bleeding was standing and waving directions to others a third Soldier was carried away on a Stretcher and the fourth was being treated on the ground the attacker rammed the truck into the Concrete blast barriers protecting the Back of the com Pound at about am detonating his explosives which were hidden under bags of flour police spokesman Brig Gen Sarhat Qadir said the Rahim Awa police com Pound is in a predominantly kurd ish neighbourhood in a Northern part of the City and other officials said us troops had been visiting an iraqi criminal investigations unit there when the blast occurred the us command in Baghdad said it was looking into the report bombings elsewhere in Iraq killed at least 11 people and wounded More than 40 the 21 bodies found in bad Cuba were believed to have been shiite work ers taken captive from three mini buses stopped at illegal sunni in surgent checkpoints near the City a British Soldier also was killed in Southern Iraq British military spokeswoman Katie Brown said the second British death in As Many Days the death raised to 136 the number of British forces to die in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion while Baghdad has seen a re us deaths in Iraq the associated press As of sunday at least 3253 members of the us military have died since the beginning of the Iraq War in March 2003 according to an associated press count the figure includes seven military civilians at least 2621 died As a result of hostile action according to the military numbers the a count is 10 higher than the defense depart ments tally last updated Fri Day at 10 am the latest deaths reported by the military two soldiers were killed saturday in Roadside bomb Ings Southwest of Baghdad four soldiers were killed sunday in Roadside bombings Southwest of Baghdad a Marine died sunday in Anbar province of a noncom Bat related cause the latest identifications re ported by the military no identifications reported cent dip in violence As extra us and iraqi troops have flooded the streets other parts of Iraq including Kirkuk have seen a surge in attacks after sunni and shiite militants apparently fled the operation More than 600 iraqis have been killed in sectarian violence since March 25 most in a series of High profile suicide bombings among them were at least 152 people killed in a suicide truck bombing in Tal deadliest single strike since the War began four years ago 3rd id unit arrives in Iraq for its third tour stars and stripes Baghdad the 3rd infantry divisions Headquarters unit has arrived in Baghdad and begun a deployment in which it will offer another level of com Mand guidance for soldiers involved in the surge of us forces in the capital according to us military officials the division Headquarters will be referred to As multinational division enter and take up responsibilities in an operation Al area just South of Baghdad the Headquarters marked its official arrival by uncaring its col ors at a ceremony saturday at Camp Victory the assignment will be command and control Intelli gence surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities in support of the new Baghdad Security plan a news release read based at fort Stewart a the 3rd infantry division Headquarters is now in its third Iraq deploy ment it was the Lead ground unit for the initial invasion then served a second tour in Baghdad during 2005 it is now led by maj Gen Rick Lynch himself no stranger to Iraq now the commander of the 3rd infantry division he had spent a previous High profile tour in the country As the main Mili tary spokesman for the used Force today As we unease the col ors we begin the next chapter in the history of this magnificent division a history that spans nine decades Lynch was quoted As saying during the uncaring of the colors if s significant in our his tory and the history of the free world task Force Marne has arrived cleric said to oppose reinstatement of baathist Baghdad Iraq top shiite cleric opposes a draft Law that would allow former members of Saddam Hussein ruling baath party to re sume government positions the head of the committee dealing with the baathist said sunday Ahmed Chalabi met with grand Ayatollah Alsi Stani on sunday in the shiite holy City of Najaf to discuss the draft Law that would allow thousands of former baath party members to regain their jobs or Grant them pensions if they Are denied jobs they once held in the govern ment or military the proposal Long demanded by the us is designed to appease Iraq once dominant sunni Arab minority in a bid to Blunt the coun try insurgency and return members of the minority to the political pro Cess the Law would allow those in the feared Security and paramilitary forces to 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