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Attacks Nationwide Kill at Least 35, 25 + Wounded, 4 Corpses Found

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At least 10 people died in a car bombing near a Shiite mosque in an outdoor market in Mahmoudiya, 20 miles south of Baghdad, police said. Three others were killed when a bomb exploded on a minibus in a Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, police said.

Earlier Sunday, six people were killed when U.S. troops stormed a house looking for an al-Qaida suspect in Youssifiyah, 12 miles south of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. Six people, including the suspect, were arrested. The military didn't identify the suspect but said he worked with foreign fighters to plan bombings.

In other developments, according to officials:

_ Gunmen killed seven people in the northern city of Mosul as they drove from a police station where they had been working on renovations.

_ A minibus north of Baqouba also came under fire and five passengers were killed, police reported.

_ Two civilians were killed in an ambush south of Kirkuk.

_ Two policemen died in an ambush near Baghdad's Sadr City area.

_ Gunmen disguised as police commandos abducted 12 employees of a trading company in Baghdad.

_ The bodies of three police recruits were found Sunday just west of Ramadi. Police said notes left on the bodies said: "This is the punishment for new police recruits."

_ Police discovered three corpses of handcuffed men in Baghdad _ two that were pulled from the Tigris River and a third that was found in a gutter in an eastern neighborhood.

_ Police found the body of an Iraqi soldier in Hillah.

_ In Najaf, Brig. Gen. Abbas Maadal said 29 policemen remain unaccounted for three days after their convoy was ambushed near the U.S. base at Taji just north of Baghdad. Nine police were killed in the attack Thursday night. Maadal said officials were trying to determine if the missing police were dead, captured or in hiding.

posted by Wink @ 9:31 AM