4 Car Bombings Kill 17, Hurt 44 in Iraq

[maddezmom]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Three car bombs rocked northern Baghdad Sunday morning within a span of half an hour while another struck a Shiite holy city, killing at least 17 and wounding 44, police and provincial officials said.

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The worst strike in Baghdad — a suicide car bombing — targeted an Iraqi army patrol at 9:20 a.m. in the northern Baghdad neighborhood of Azamiyah. Ten people were killed 15 wounded, most of them Iraqi soldiers, police Lt. Col. Falah al-Mohammedawi said.

The first two Baghdad bombs targeted police patrols. Insurgents often target Iraqi police and soldiers, trying to discourage Sunni Arabs from joining government security forces.

A bomb a 8:50 a.m. missed the patrol but killed one civilian and wounded five, police Lt. Ahmed Mohammed Ali said.

Ten minutes later, the second car bomb went off near the private Ibn al-Haitham College in northern Baghdad. One civilian was killed and six were wounded, al-Mohammedawi said.

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[maddezmom]

1. Reuters:Car bombs kill 30 in Iraq and wound more than 70

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Car bombs killed 30 people in Iraq on Sunday and wounded more than 70 in one of the bloodiest spasms of violence of recent weeks as political leaders closed in on a deal to form a national unity government.

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Twenty-one people were killed and 52 wounded when a car bomb went off close to the main central bus station in the Shi'ite holy city of Kerbala, 110 km (70 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. Around the same time, two cars exploded in the capital.

A suicide car bomber hit an Iraqi army patrol in the mainly Sunni northern district of Aadhamiya, killing eight people and wounding 15. Soldiers and civilians were among the casualties.

Iraqi and U.S. forces conducted a sweep for rebels in Aadhamiya on Saturday, the U.S. military said. The area is a stronghold of Sunni Arab insurgents.

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