Saturday: 10 Iraqis Killed, 49 Wounded

Updated at 5:51 p.m. EDT, Sept. 12, 2009

Baghdad again was targeted by a series of bombs, this time against religious shrines. Overall, at least 10 Iraqis were killed and 49 more were wounded there and elsewhere. Also, Prime Minister’s Nouri al-Maliki’s “spat” with Syria could be hurting him politically ahead of January elections. Iraq’s Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi meanwhile announced that he will run in those elections as a member of a new political party.

In Baghdad, a pair of bombs near a shrine in Bab al-Muadham killed four people and wounded 35 others. A bomb hidden inside a Quran was defused at a shrine in Kadhimiya. Another bomb killed one and wounded two others in Tobji. Five people were wounded during another bombing in Raghebat Khatoun. A roadside bomb injured two policemen in Qadissiyah.

In Mosul, an explosion near an Iraqi patrol rattled them into firing randomly, accidentally killing a policeman. Two policemen were wounded in clashes the Thawra neighborhood. An evening blast wounded two soldiers in Wehda.

A bomb targeting an Awakening Council (Sahwa) leader’s car in Baquba killed him, another man and two women. A second report said the blast killed two women and two children instead.

Gunmen wounded a taxi driver in Makhmour.

A raid in Samarra led to the arrests of three al-Qaeda suspects.

Kut police arrested two brothers wanted on murder and kidnapping charges.

A bomb was defused in Riyadh.

Seven suspects were detained and five bombs were confiscated in Basra province.

A man suspected of 80 murders was arrested in Kanaan.

Near Karbala in Ayn al-Tamr, 100 grenades were seized. Another 35 were found in Hindiya.

Combined forces detained 106 suspects near Amerli.

Author: Margaret Griffis

Margaret Griffis is a journalist from Miami Beach, Florida and has been covering Iraqi casualties for Antiwar.com since 2006.