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16 Killed 31 Wounded 452 Civilians Killed Since 2/22/06

Good morning,

A series of explosions, including a car bomb that struck a Sunni mosque, and a shooting killed 16 civilians and wounded 31 as a dust storm enveloped the capital.

U.S. military spokesman Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch said that the U.S. military believed at least 452 civilians had died in violence after the Feb. 22 shrine bombing until the end of last week, although he offered no breakdown according religious sect or ethnicity.

One of the deadly blasts in Baghdad Thursday targeted an Iraqi army patrol in the mostly Sunni western neighborhood of Amariyah, killing nine civilians and wounding six, according to Interior Ministry Maj. Falah al-Mohammedawi.

A car bomb also exploded near the Sunni Al-Israa Walmiraj mosque in east Baghdad, killing five civilians and wounding 12 others, police Capt. Mahir Hamad Mousa said.

At Yarmouk Hospital in west Baghdad, a car bomb killed two people and wounded 13 as they entered the clinic, police Lt. Thaer Mahmoud said.

Also Thursday, a woman was gunned down as she left her west Baghdad home for work, said police Lt. Mohammed Khayoun, who claimed she was attacked because she worked in the capital's American-controlled Green Zone.

Have a nice day.

posted by Wink @ 11:10 AM