Thirteen killed in two Baghdad attacks
Wednesday, 2 March 2005 21:04
Thirteen people were killed and dozens injured this morning when suicide car bombers targeted an Iraqi army base and a checkpoint in separate Baghdad attacks.
In the first, at least seven people were killed and 38 injured when the bomb blew up outside the army base at the disused Al-Muthanna airport in western Baghdad.
In the second attack, six soldiers were killed and two injured
when a car bomber blew himself up at an army checkpoint in southwest Baghdad.
At Baghdad's Yarmuk hospital, where the injured from the first
attack were taken, doctors said they were refusing to treat them to protest beatings by soldiers who had accompanied them.
Judge and son shot dead
Last night, an Iraqi investigative judge and his son who were working for the special tribunal set up to try the former dictator Saddam Hussein were shot dead.
Judge Barwize Mohamed Marwane and his son Arayan, who was also a lawyer, were ambushed as they stepped out of their home in Baghdad.
It is believed to be the first assassination of a judge working for the tribunal, although other senior judges have been killed in recent months.
The attack took place a day after the tribunal said it had enough evidence to put five former Baath party officials on trial.
The five include Saddam's half brother, Barzan al-Hassan al-Tikriti, who is also a former intelligence chief.
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