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Iraqi Police Baghdad Dweller POLICE REPORT In the name of God, the most merciful This is the morning and afternoon events of 15/3/2006 1. Interior Ministry Operations: All forces belonging to the Interior Ministry will go on 100 percent alert status starting Wednesday 15/3/2006 until 1000 hours Friday 17/3/2006. 2. Coordination Center of Beji At 810 gunmen in a white vehicle, duck type (a reference to the local name for a Toyota model) kidnapped the child Mohamed (Badei Khaled) from Samaha school in Beji (map coordinates 617667). 3. Coordination Center of Dujail At 730 a benzene truck burned near Gassem al Queisy fuel station after one of its tires caught fire. The incident burned the driver (Hamed Abdalilah) and he was transported to the hospital (map coordinates 263519). 4. Coordination Center of Balad At 230 of 15/3/2006, according to the telegram (report) of the Ishaqi police directorate, American forces used helicopters to drop troops on the house of Faiz Harat Khalaf situated in the Abu Sifa village of the Ishaqi district. The American forces gathered the family members in one room and executed 11 people, including 5 children, 4 women and 2 men, then they bombed the house, burned three vehicles and killed their animals (map coordinates 098702). They were: Turkiya Muhammed Ali, 75 years Faiza Harat Khalaf, 30 years Faiz Harat Khalaf, 28 years Um Ahmad, 23 years Sumaya Abdulrazak, 22 years Aziz Khalil Jarmoot, 22 years Hawra Harat Khalaf, 5 years Asma Yousef Maruf, 5 years Osama Yousef Maruf, 3 years Aisha Harat Khalaf, 3 years Husam Harat Khalaf, 6 months (Signed) Staff Colonel Fadhil Muhammed Khalaf Assistant Chief of the Joint Coordination Center 3/16/2006

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