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Five soldiers killed in latest attacks in Iraq
Reuters - Thursday, March 25
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By Suadad al-Salhy
BAGHDAD - Five Iraqi soldiers were shot execution-style at a checkpoint near Baghdad, authorities said on Wednesday, in the latest sign of rising tensions as Iraq prepares to release the results of the March 7 election.
The Iraqi army surrounded the town of Radwaniya west of Baghdad, where the attack occurred late on Tuesday. Troops limited access as they searched for the gunmen, officials said.
"Gunmen used silencers and killed two of our soldiers at the checkpoint and then entered to kill the others inside their room and fled without drawing attention," said a military intelligence officer who asked not to be named.
"They shot them in the head, which means they executed them," the officer said.
The Baghdad security spokesman's office confirmed that gunmen killed the soldiers in an attack on the checkpoint.
Violence has dropped sharply during the last two years after sectarian warfare that killed tens of thousands of people in 2006-07. But authorities have reported a rash of attacks since a parliamentary election Iraqis hoped would help stabilise the country.
The Independent High Electoral Commission is scheduled to release a preliminary 100 percent vote count on Friday evening.
RASH OF ATTACKS
In the restive northern city of Mosul on Wednesday, one person was killed and eight others wounded in three separate roadside bomb blasts, police said.
Seven people, including four children, also were wounded in Mosul in a mortar attack targeting the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
Two days ago, two members of the Shi'ite Sadrist political movement were gunned down in Baghdad. The attack stirred concerns that militias were trying to take advantage of a power vacuum while Iraq's leaders are preoccupied with the unfinished vote count.
On Sunday, gunmen fired at an official working with the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, wounding him and his driver in central Baghdad, a source at the Interior Ministry said.
With 95 percent of the vote reported, the election is virtually a dead heat between Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's State of Law coalition and a secular, cross-sectarian bloc led by former premier Iyad Allawi. In the southern oil hub of Basra on Wednesday an estimated 500 Maliki supporters demonstrated in front of a government building to echo the prime minister's call for a recount.
"Recounting proves the credibility of the IHEC and places it away from doubts. This is a demand of Basra's people," said Mohammad Hussein, 53, a retired teacher.
The protests came a day after a meeting in Basra of the leaders of 10 provincial councils, mostly Maliki supporters, after which they called for protests if election officials refused to recount the votes. The leaders warned of "escalation measures" if the demand was not met.
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