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U.N. envoy: End Iraqi 'tragedy'« Thread Started on Jul 20, 2

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U.N. envoy: End Iraqi 'tragedy'« Thread Started on Jul 20, 2

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U.N. envoy: End Iraqi 'tragedy'« Thread Started on Jul 20, 2006, 4:21am » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------U.N. envoy: End Iraqi 'tragedy'At least 19 killings, more than 20 kidnapped, 10 bodies found in Iraq Wednesday, July 19, 2006 Posted: 1729 GMT (0129 HKT) read at source: http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast ... tmlBAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The U.N. special representative for Iraq has urged Iraqis to find a way to stop the killings in the war-torn country, calling them a "national tragedy."Ashraf Qazi was speaking on Wednesday the day after the U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq issued a report saying more than 14,000 civilians have been killed in Iraq this year, and that more than 5,800 deaths occurred in May and June alone."The emerging phenomenon of Iraqis killing Iraqis on a daily basis is nothing less than a catastrophe and a national tragedy for the people of Iraq," Qazi said.He also urged citizens to cooperate with the legal authorities and urged restraint by multinational and Iraqi security forces to avert civilian casualties.Qazi said ending the "spiraling violence" must be Iraqis' "immediate and overriding priority." And, he said, they must focus on the root causes of it.But as he spoke assaults and kidnappings continued to rage across the country. A wave of assaults in Baghdad and Kirkuk on Wednesday killed at least 19 people, including a senior Interior Ministry employee and a family of four at a grocery store. A U.S. Marine death, as a result of a non-hostile incident on Tuesday, was also reported.Kidnappers abducted more than 20 members of the agency that cares for Sunni religious sites nationwide. And police found 10 bodies dumped in the capital.Nuri al-Maliki, Iraq's prime minister, addressed recent days of violence -- including the recent targeting of dozens of civilians at a day laborer gathering spot in a Kufa marketplace, at a marketplace in Mahmoudiya and at a cafe in Tuz Khurmato. He said the fact that al Qaeda in Iraq has resorted to hitting soft targets shows its weaknesses.He also said the national reconciliation plan that he unveiled recently is the "only bridge and the basic crossing to the shores of peace." A government committee will meet on Saturday to begin working on the plan, which al-Maliki said the insurgency wants to undermine.Meanwhile, the widespread "killings, kidnappings and torture" cited by the U.N. report remained on full display on Wednesday. (Full story)Around 5 p.m., an Iraqi died and two others were wounded when two mortars landed inside Baghdad's Green Zone, a limited-access area in the center of Baghdad, is where U.S. and Iraqi government offices are located.In southern Baghdad, attackers stormed a grocery store in the New Baghdad neighborhood, where they shot and killed four members of a family that owned the store. Then, they detonated an explosive where civilians were gathering, killing three people and wounding seven others.Maj. Gen. Fakhrou Abdul Mohsen was gunned down when he was leaving his house in what emergency police called a drive-by shooting.A car bomb, followed by two other blasts, killed five Iraqis -- including three police officers -- near the Technology University in southeast Baghdad, police said.Five people were killed in two incidents in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk -- two civilians were killed and 12 others wounded outside a cafe near the courthouse and a suicide car bomb targeting police killed three people and wounded six others.Police told CNN that 10 slain, unidentified bodies were found across Baghdad on Wednesday.The dumping of slain bodies -- many with signs of torture -- has been a common occurrence in the capital and elsewhere since Sunni-Shiite sectarian violence escalated after the Feb. 22 bombing of the Askariya Mosque, a Shiite shrine in Samarra.More than 20 employees of the Sunni Endowment were kidnapped on Wednesday, a spokesman for the group said. Mehdi Mashhadani said the incident took place when the people were leaving their offices in Baghdad and heading home to Taji, north of the capital. The agency manages for Sunni mosques and shrines across the country.A U.S. Marine died in Iraq on Tuesday in what was described as the "result of a non-hostile incident" in Anbar province, the military reported on Wednesday. The Marine was assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5."Foul play is not suspected," the military said. This brings the number of U.S. military fatalities in the Iraq war to 2,554.The U.S. military said on Wednesday that a U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter helped ground forces with intelligence and surveillance on Monday that led to the killing of an insurgent near Baquba and the breaking up of an IED-making cell."The F-16 identified three possible IED emplacers and passed the information to ground forces. Ground unit personnel positively identified the terrorists and requested the F-16 engage the hostile forces. The F-16 strafed the terrorists, killing one, ending the engagement," the military said.CNN's Arwa Damon and Jomana Karadsheh contributed to this report
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