31 Killed Friday 17 Early Saturday On

Juan Cole 02/12/2005

31 Killed Friday, 17 early Saturday

On Saturday, guerrillas set off a car bomb in the mixed Sunni-Shiite city of Musayyib. The bomb killed 17 and wounded 16, including 3 policemen.

The explosion at the Shiite mosque was at Balad Ruz, northeast of Baghdad. The bomb was in a vegetable truck. In East Baghdad, guerrillas opened fire at a bakery. Altoghether the two incidents killed about 23 persons.

Guerrillas blew up car bombs or engaged in shootouts in Salahuddin province (where they injured three US soldiers), “west of Baghdad”, where they killed a US solder, and in Talafar, Mosul and Husaybah along the Syrian border.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page