Bush talks of change, car bombs kill 8

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Ironic headline.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061111/ts_nm/iraq_dc

Bush talks of change, car bombs kill 8

By Claudia Parsons Sat Nov 11, 3:03 PM ET

BAGHDAD (Reuters) -
President Bush said on Saturday his new defense secretary was an "agent of change" in a sign of the growing momentum for a new direction in
Iraq policy after election defeat for Bush's Republicans.


Two car bombs in a Baghdad market killed eight people and Iraqi security forces were the target of several attacks around the country as insurgents and sectarian groups kept up the pressure on the Iraqi government and its U.S. backers.

Gunmen stopped three minibuses carrying Shi'ites south of Baghdad, killed nine passengers and kidnapped 13 others, police said. The attack took place in Latifiya, a town in the "Triangle of Death," so called because of the large number of attacks by Sunni insurgents against U.S. troops.

The
Pentagon's top general, Peter Pace, has said U.S. military leaders are preparing to recommend changes in Iraq strategy. The Iraq Study Group, led by Bush family friend and former secretary of state James Baker and former congressman Lee Hamilton, is also looking at alternative approaches.

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