"Bus Bomb Kills 20 in Baghdad"

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89 journalists have been killed in Iraq since hostilities began in March 2003....what a damn nightmare! We need to get the hell out of Iraq.

Bus Bomb Kills 20 in Baghdad
By SINAN SALAHEDDIN, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A bomb tore through in a minibus in a largely Shiite Baghdad neighborhood Monday, killing at least 20 people and wounding 18. Gunmen killed at least 10 people, including a television cameraman, a city councilman and a Sunni sheik, in executions and assassinations around Iraq.<snip>

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The bomb in the northeast Baghdad Shaab neighborhood was planted on the bus and detonated shortly after noon at a major intersection, police said. Sunni insurgents have frequently targeted Shiite bus passengers in the ongoing sectarian reprisal killings that are tearing at the fabric of Iraqi society.

Hours earlier, Mohammed al-Ban, a cameraman for Iraq's independent Al-Sharqiyah satellite television broadcaster, was gunned down leaving his home in the northern city of Mosul. His wife was wounded, police said.

Al-Ban is the second journalist for the channel to be killed in recent weeks. Anchorwoman Leqaa Abdul Razzaq was fatally shot late last month as she was traveling in south Baghdad's lawless Dora district.<snip>