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Part of an update published by The Herald news. Link to full article below.-Unidentified gunmen killed Ibrahim Ismael, head of the education department in the northern city of Kirkuk, police Col. Sarhat Qadir said. Three of Ismael's bodyguards were wounded.
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A gruesome video posted on a Web site purported to show militants beheading a Nepalese worker and shooting 11 others in the first mass slaying of foreign hostages during the Iraqi insurgency.
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In south Baghdad, assailants attacked a police patrol with grenades, killing one officer and wounding two, said Naji Bahr Naji al-Khalidi, an official with Iraq's FPS security force.
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Insurgents attacked a U.S. patrol in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, sparking a gunbattle in which U.S. troops wounded one of the assailants, the Army said. One civilian was killed and a second was wounded in crossfire, Lt. Col. Paul Hastings said.-
Gunmen fired at a car near the town of Latifiyah, 25 miles south of Baghdad, killing Shiite scholar Bashir al-Jazaari and his driver and wounding two passengers, authorities said.
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