You don't hear this on the news...
Bombs and mortar attacks killed 43 people in Iraq on Monday. A suicide bomber slammed his truck into a densely populated residential area in the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar on Monday, killing at least 28 people, police said. According to the AP, the attack occurred in a crowded Shiite neighborhood of the mixed city, which lies about 260 miles northwest of Baghdad.
At least 50 others were wounded in the attack, said Brig. Gen. Rahim al-Jibouri, commander of Tal Afar police. The bomber drove a dump truck filled with explosives and covered with a thin layer of construction materials, al-Jibouri said.
In the capital a roadside bomb killed nine Iraqis, security and medical officials said. The device, hidden on the side of the road, blew up after a minibus stopped to collect waiting passengers in the Diyala Bridge neighbourhood in the southern suburbs, security officials said. The Al-Zafaraniyah hospital said nine people were killed, including a woman, and eight wounded were brought in with mainly burns injuries.
In the Sunni heartland north of the capital, mortar rounds crashed through private homes, killing six civilians and wounding another 17 in the town of Dhuluiyah, the local police chief and hospital director said.
Police Colonel Mohammed Khaled said one woman was among the dead.
US forces said they killed 11 gunmen and arrested 10 suspects on Monday in operations around the Tigris River Valley, the northern belt of Baghdad. According to the AFP, an air strike killed seven presumed fighters after US ground forces came under heavy gunfire in a raid against an Al-Qaeda in Iraq emir responsible for attacks in Salaheddin province, where Dhuluiyah is located, the U.S. military said.
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No you never hear about all civilians killed or injured. Yes, our soldiers lives are important but there are other people involved which don't seem to count.
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