An Interior Ministry official said on Wednesday that a mortar round struck a busy central Baghdad bus station as US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was holding talks in the Iraqi capital.
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In Samarra, 95km north of Baghdad, a US military vehicle was destroyed in an explosive device in al-Amil neighbourhood north of the city, while two soldiers from Iraq rapid intervention forces were killed in an ambush in the western town of Biji.
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In a separate development, Iraqis protesting a metal border barrier that Kuwait is building between the two countries fired several shots across the border on Wednesday, but a security official said nobody was injured.
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Kuwait is erecting the pipeline along the frontier which was redrawn by the United Nations after the small oil-rich state was liberated in 1991 from a seven-month Iraqi occupation.
ah, yes, just another shitty day in paradise.
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