“Last night in Baiji, an attack on an Awakening Council checkpoint left two dead and five wounded. An official in Mashadah survived an assassination attempt that killed his brother and another person; he was wounded as well. In Mosul, gunmen killed a taxi driver. … A civilian was shot dead. Two hostages were liberated. In Baghdad, a senior education ministry official was assassinated. One soldier was killed and another was wounded as they tried to defuse a bomb in Hilla. A U.S. military vehicle struck a civilian car in Numaniya, killing three and wounding a fourth person. An Awakening Council member was shot dead at a checkpoint in Tuz Khormato.” (09/02/10)