Monday, September 11, 2006

Iraq Recruiting Center Blast Kills 16

An Iraqi police officer stands guard at the site of a car bomb explosion, in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday Sept. 11, 2006. Four people were killed and three were wounded after a car bomber was used in a botched attack against a U.S. military convoy in eastern Baghdad. There were no reports of any injuries to U.S. personnel in the attack, police said.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Just another average day in the Not-So-Civil-War-In-Iraq. This is also from The Washington Post:

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A mini bus carrying a bomb exploded outside an army recruiting center in Baghdad and killed 16 people Monday, the deadliest of a string of attacks that left 29 Iraqis dead. A U.S. soldier also died over the weekend.

The mini bus exploded near the northern gate of the al-Muthana recruiting center in central Baghdad, said defense ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Ibrahim al-Obeidi. Seven people were also wounded.

A botched car bombing against a U.S. military convoy in eastern Baghdad killed four Iraqis and wounded three, but injured no Americans, said police Maj. Hamid Mousa.

A U.S. soldier was killed by small arms fire Sunday after his patrol came under attack north of Baghdad, the U.S. military command said Monday.

Gunmen killed at least nine people in separate attacks overnight and Monday morning in northern Iraq and in the capital, authorities said.

Assailants opened fire at a telephone exchange center in a commercial Baghdad area early Monday employees started work, killing a man and a woman, said police.

Late Sunday night, two policemen died in clashes with gunmen in southern Baghdad, police said.

In northern Iraq, gunmen in two cars ambushed a bus carrying oil employees from Beiji, the country's largest refinery, killing four people and wounding one, police said.

Now back to your regularly-scheduled, fear-mongering, 9/11 anniversary programming.

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