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	Baqubah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Baquba (بعقوبة; also transliterated as Ba'qubah and Baqouba) is the capital of Iraq's Diyala Governorate.
		During the course of the U.S-led occupation of Iraq, Baquba emerged as the scene of some of the heaviest guerilla activity, along with the Sunni enclaves of Fallujah, Ramadi, and Samarra.
		On June 8, 2006, Iraqi and U.S. officials confirmed that al-Zarqawi had been killed in an airstrike and subsequent raid 8 km (5 miles) north of Baquba.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baquba (234 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Baquba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Baquba (بعقوبه; also transliterated as Ba'qubah and Baqouba) is the capital of Iraq's Diyala province.
		Baquba (بعقوبه; also transliterated as Ba'qubah and Baqouba) is the capital of Iraq 's
		A convoy was hit by a roadside bomb west of Baquba and three soldiers were injured, with one of them dying later in hospital, he said.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Baquba (599 words)

	Muslim American Society
		The fighting in Baquba, Fallujah, Mosul and Ramadi was the most serious challenge to the US-led coalition's efforts to restore stability since April, when Shiite Muslim radicals launched an uprising across central and southern Iraq.
		The violence in Baquba, north of Baghdad, was claimed by the militant group of alleged Al-Qaeda operative Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi.
		The early morning assault in Baquba was launched by fighters of fugitive Jordanian Islamist Zarqawi, whose Tawhid wa al-Jihad (Unification and Holy War) group beheaded a South Korean hostage Tuesday.
	www.masnet.org /news.asp?id=1325 (891 words)

	Baquba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Baquba (بعقوبه; also transliterated as Ba'qubah and Baqouba) is the capital of Iraq 's Diyala province.
		The city is located at 33°45' N E some 50 km to the northeast Baghdad on the Diyala River within Iraq's so-called Sunni Triangle.
		During the course of the U.S-led occupation Iraq Baquba emerged as the scene of of the heaviest guerilla activity along with Sunni enclaves of Fallujah Ramadi and Samarra.
	www.freeglossary.com /Baquba (142 words)

	Baquba Sealed off as US Loses Control - by Dahr Jamail
		BAQUBA — Just six days before Iraq's interim government is to gain partial sovereignty from the U.S., resistance fighters launched a series of coordinated attacks against U.S. forces and Iraqi government targets in Baghdad, Mosul, Ramadi and Baquba today.
		Here in Baquba, a small city 50 kilometers (31 mi.) northeast of Baghdad, early morning attacks by resistance fighters and bombing raids by the U.S. military killed 13 civilians and wounded another 15, according to the Health Ministry.
		Residents of Baquba, along with Major Neal E. O'Brien, a U.S. 1st Infantry Division spokesman, said that at 9 a.m., U.S. warplanes dropped three 500 pound bombs in the city near the soccer stadium.
	www.antiwar.com /jamail/?articleid=2872 (1186 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Unclear casualty toll in Baquba fighting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		There are conflicting casualty tolls from the fierce battles between US occupation troops in the Buhruz area, south of Baquba, and Iraqis who resisted American troops' attempts to search civilian homes.
		Qaysar Hamid, an emergency worker at Baquba General Hospital, said two people, an Iraqi police officer and a civilian, were killed while six other civilians were injured.
		Baquba is about 75km north of the capital Baghdad.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/0FD80F43-5760-43A6-B197-3C8DDB9DD4B1.htm (352 words)

	Aanslag nabij Baquba - Het Dagelijks Nieuws
		BAQUBA - Zeker zes Irakezen zijn dinsdag omgekomen bij een aanslag in een plaats iets ten noorden van Baquba.
		BAQUBA (ANP) - Zeker drie Iraakse burgers zijn woendag om het leven gekomen door een aanslag met een autobom bij een benzinestation in de buurt van Baquba, 60 kilometer ten noorden van Bagdad.
		BAQUBA (ANP) - Zeker zes Irakezen zijn dinsdag omgekomen bij een aanslag in een plaats iets ten noorden van Baquba.
	aanslag.nabij.baquba.89730.hetdagelijksnieuws.nl (204 words)

	US warplanes bomb Baquba, 20 rebels dead - Sify.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Baquba (Iraq): US forces unleashed two air strikes and ground fire on the restive city of Baquba on Monday following clashes between rebels and Iraqi security forces, in a day of chaos that left about 20 insurgents dead, a US military official said.
		Four US soldiers were also slightly wounded in the unrest, which marked the latest in a wave of violence that has swept through the Sunni Muslim heartlands of Iraq in response to a huge US-Iraqi assault on the rebel hub of Fallujah.
		While Baquba has a roughly even Sunni and Shiite population, a majority of the violence has flared in the predominately Sunni cities of Mosul, Ramadi, Samarra and Baiji.
	www.sify.com /news/fullstory.php?id=13610700 (548 words)

	PM's party office comes under attack in Baquba -DAWN - International; 27 June, 2004
		BAQUBA, June 26: Political parties became the latest target of Iraq's resistance as guerillas hit the local office of the prime minister's political group and a Shia party in the restive city of Baquba, while a car bomb in the north wounded a top Kurdish politician.
		The attack came just two days after Baquba was caught up in an assault on local police stations in four cities across central and northern Iraq that left around 90 people dead.
		In anticipation of further unrest, security guards at all political offices in the city were on high alert, surrounding party buildings, keeping watch from the rooftops and blocking roads leading to the area.
	www.dawn.com /2004/06/27/int1.htm (566 words)

	Ba'quba
		City in central Iraq with 240,000 inhabitants (2005 estimate), on the Diyala River, a northeastern tributary of the Tigris river.
		Ba'quba is a regional centre for agricultural produce and livestock.
		Ba'quba has for centuries been famous for its dates and fruit orchards.
	i-cias.com /e.o/baquba.htm (118 words)

	Rebellion in Baquba
		The main road into Baquba, thirty miles northeast of Baghdad, is closed by US Army Humvees and tanks.
		In Baquba, where the rebellion is most intense, the action began at 5 am, when local mujahedeen attacked a US patrol with RPGs, killing two GIs and wounding seven.
		A few vehicles are leaving Baquba, and a few others are headed in the opposite direction, trying to circumvent the blockade by crossing the fields on rutted farming roads.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20040712/parenti (821 words)

	US planes bomb Baquba as violence spills over from Fallujah
		BAQUBA, Iraq : Gunfire and air strikes rocked the restive city of Baquba as violence raged across Iraq, despite a major assault on Fallujah where US-led forces hunted out final pockets of resistance.
		In Baquba, 60 kilometres (37 miles) northeast of Baghdad, US-led forces battled with up to 150 insurgents, killing at least 21 of them, said William Chlebowski, the acting US commander.
		While Baquba has a roughly even Sunni and Shiite population, much of the violence has flared in the predominantly Sunni cities of Mosul, Ramadi, Samarra and Baiji.
	www.iraq4u.com /forum/m_137/tm.htm (1039 words)

	Baquba Airfield
		Baquba Airfield is located approximately 35-45 miles northeast of Baghdad.
		Camp Boom was a base formerly occupied by Saddam Hussein's 41st Armored Brigade of the Republican Guard Al Nida Division.
		By October 2003 soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division were stationed in hangars at Camp War Horse near Baquba [Baqouba], about 40 miles northeast of Baghdad.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/iraq/baquba.htm (928 words)

	My Way - News
		Guerrillas struck in Baquba, Falluja, Ramadi, Mosul and Baghdad, wounding more than 250 people in an intensification of a bloody campaign by Iraqi rebels and foreign militants.
		The U.S. Army said two soldiers had been killed and seven wounded in an ambush in Baquba that involved roadside bombs as well as small-arms and rocket-propelled grenade fire.
		Witnesses said an Iraqi hospital director and his driver were killed on a road near Baquba.
	news.myway.com /top/article/id/256517\|top\|06-24-2004::09:30\|reuters.html (661 words)

	US planes bomb Baquba, local Iraqi police chief among more than 20 killed
		US warplanes bombed the restive city of Baquba on Monday as more than 20 people were reported killed, including the local police chief, in clashes pitting rebels against American and Iraqi forces, witnesses and officials said.
		An AFP journalist embedded with the military in Baquba, 60 kilometresmiles) northeast of Baghdad, said that clashes rumbled into the evening and US forces were fighting to wrest control of Buhruz police station.
		While Baquba has a roughly evenly-divided Sunni and Shiite population, a majority of the violence has flared in the mostly Sunni cities of Mosul, Ramadi, Samarra and Baiji.
	www.spacewar.com /2004/041115171146.1bi6l6op.html (695 words)

	RTE News - Two killed as car bomb explodes in Baquba
		A car bomb has exploded in the Iraqi town of Baquba, north of Baghdad, killing two Iraqis and wounding at least four.
		Police said the target of the attack was the town's deputy mayor, who survived the blast.
		His convoy was passing through Baquba as the bomb exploded.
	www.rte.ie /news/2004/0822/iraq1.html (102 words)

	IBLNEWS : Cuatro muertos y 14 heridos en la explosión de una bomba en Baquba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		La explosión ocurrió a primeras horas de la mañana en una calle de Baquba, por la que habitualmente pasan los convoyes de vehículos de las tropas estadounidenses con base en esa localidad, situada a unos 65 kilómetros al noreste de la capital iraquí.
		Ahmed Amer, médico del hospital de Baquba dijo a EFE, que todas las víctimas eran civiles que en el momento que se produjo la explosión se hallaban cerca del lugar donde estaba situada la bomba.
		Baquba, en el conflictivo "triángulo suní", es a menudo escenario de atentados y ataques de los insurgentes.
	www.iblnews.com /noticias/08/113851.html (212 words)

	IOL: Baquba air strikes leave 20 rebels dead - US
		Baquba, Iraq - US forces launched air strikes and fought gunbattles after insurgents overran police stations and other areas in the Iraqi city of Baquba on Monday, killing about 20 rebels, the US military said.
		Explosions and gunfire echoed across Baquba, 65km north-east of the capital, as US and Iraqi forces battled to restore order after insurgents attacked a police station and US troops at a traffic circle, witnesses said.
		A doctor at Baquba hospital said at least eight people had been brought in dead from the fighting, including one police officer.
	www.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1100527741268B262 (699 words)

	News: Iraq, Teenage Iraqi girl and six-year-old brother killed in Baquba
		BAQUBA, Iraq, Aug 16 (AFP) - A teenage girl and her six-year-old brother were killed Monday when one of three mortar bombs aimed at a US base in the restive city of Baquba hit their home, their father and Iraqi police said.
		Three Iraqi national guardsmen were also wounded when their patrol vehicle hit a homemade explosive device as they were entering Baquba, one of their injured comrades said.
		Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, has been dogged by frequent clashes betweeen US troops and insurgents.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/d02fbe4658e2b1c1c1256ef2004a0e8e (312 words)

	CNN.com - Iraq suicide blast kills 68 - Jul 28, 2004
		In addition, an Iraqi was killed in a blast near a Baghdad police station and an enemy combatant died in fighting in Ramadi.
		In the Baquba attack, police said the bomber drove a Toyota mini-bus into a marketplace near a police station, where would-be recruits were lined up outside, and detonated the explosives.
		The Baquba suicide blast was so intense it shattered glass in nearby cafes, ripped facades off buildings and set fire to other vehicles, video from the scene showed.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/07/28/iraq.main/index.html (894 words)

	Six killed, 16 wounded in Iraq suicide bombing. 09/08/2004. ABC News Online
		Six Iraqis have been killed and 16 wounded, including an official in the local provincial government, in a suicide car bombing near the restive city of Baquba, north-east of Baghdad.
		Attacks against Iraqi police and provincial officials are frequent in Baquba.
		A huge suicide car bomb outside a Baquba police station on July 28, exactly one month after the interim Government took power from the former US-led occupation authority, killed 70 Iraqis, mostly prospective police recruits.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200408/s1172395.htm (230 words)

	RTE News - Tribal sheikh dies in Mosul, Iraq
		A roadside bomb killed one soldier and wounded another when it hit a convoy near Baquba, about 65 km from Baghdad, and a second soldier was killed trying to defuse a bomb outside the town.
		In a third incident, a soldier died in Baquba when his vehicle struck a home-made bomb.
		An officer in Baquba gave the number of wounded at six.
	www.rte.ie /news/2003/1226/iraq.html (285 words)

	US Troops 'Accidentally Kill Iraq Boy'
		The adolescent was ferried from Baquba, north-east of Baghdad, by a US helicopter to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
		US troops have faced consistent attacks in the region, which is populated by Shiite and Sunni Muslims.
		US military spokesman Anthony Reinoso said there was one incident in Baquba late Thursday involving a makeshift bomb and an Iraqi who opened fire with an AK47 injuring one US soldier.
	www.rense.com /general41/kill.htm (142 words)

	US forces launch more attacks across Iraq after insurgents overrun police stations in Baquba and other cities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. forces launched air strikes and fought gunbattles after insurgents overran police stations and other areas in the Iraqi city of Baquba on Monday, killing about 20 rebels, the U.S. military said.
		Explosions and gunfire echoed across Baquba, 40 miles northeast of the capital, as U.S. and Iraqi forces battled to restore order after insurgents attacked a police station and U.S. troops at a traffic circle, witnesses said.
		A doctor at Baquba hospital said at least eight people had been brought in dead from the fighting, including one policeman.
	www.fairandbalanced.us /docs/StoryID3523.htm (651 words)

	Rebels Kill 25 Police In Attacks In Iraq's Baquba
		Insurgents also attacked a key bridge on a road linking Baquba with the northeastern towns of Miqdadiya and Khanaqin.
		They distributed leaflet warning people in Baquba should stay away from government offices and schools.
		The attacks occurred as U.S.-led forces were storming into the rebel stronghold of Falluja, west of Baghdad.
	www.rense.com /general59/babr.htm (121 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Multiple attacks kill 100 in Iraq
		The worst attacks were in the city of Mosul, where at least 62 people died and 220 were hurt in a series of car bombings, the US military said.
		More than 40 people died in Baquba, Ramadi, Falluja and Baghdad, in what appeared to be co-ordinated attacks.
		Late on Thursday, the Shia militia loyal to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr declared a unilateral truce in the Sadr City slum quarter of Baghdad - the final area where it was still opposing US-led coalition forces.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/3835001.stm (765 words)

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