Nine killed, more disappear, in Iraq violence

 
Insurgents kidnap journalist working for government-funded TV and her son, three men working for US military.

 
BAQUBA, Iraq - Nine Iraqis have died in a series of attacks in Iraq since Sunday evening, while a journalist, her son, and three men working for the US military have been kidnapped, according separate security sources and a statement from a militant group.

An Iraqi truck driver was killed overnight in an attack northeast of Baghdad on his convoy carrying equipment for the Iraqi army, police said. Two other drivers were missing.

A teacher at Baiji's Oil Institute, 200 kilometres (130 miles) north of Baghdad, died on Monday in a bomb attack, while an Iraqi soldier was killed in a mortar attack outside Samarra, also north of Baghdad, and an Iraqi civilian died in an attack on a chemist's, southeast of Samarra, security sources said.

In the northern city of Mosul, police Lieutenant Colonel Essam Fathi was shot dead as he left home, police said, and in the same city gunmen kidnapped Raeda Wazzan, a journalist working for a government-funded television station, along with her son, aged 10, a TV executive said.

An interior ministry source said that four people had died in separate attacks in the capital.

A group calling itself the "Horror Brigades" of the Islamic army in Iraq said it had kidnapped three subcontractors, including a Turk, working for the US military.

A statement handed out in several northern Iraqi cities said the "three unbelievers helping to build camps for the American infidels" would be executed "by virtue of God's judgement".

The text's authenticity could not be verified.

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