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23 People Killed, 38 Wounded

Good Afternoon,

In additional violence on Saturday:

_ Two U.S. soldiers were killed in separate bombings in Baghdad, in the Shiite district of Sadr City and in the southern part of the capital, the military said. At least 2,549 members of the U.S. military have died since the start of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

_ A roadside bomb hidden in a box near a supermarket exploded in southern Baghdad, killing six people and wounding 11 others, police said.

_ A suicide car bomber attacked a police patrol in eastern Baghdad, killing two paramilitary commandos and wounding four people, two of them civilians, police said. Another suicide driver attacked a police patrol in northern Baghdad, wounding six people, including two policemen, officials said.

_ At least six people were killed in scattered clashes between Iraqi soldiers and gunmen in the capital. Seven people were injured in a mortar attack near Haifa Street in downtown Baghdad, blocks from the Green Zone that houses the U.S. and British embassies, police said.

_ Small-scale shootings and bombings in Baghdad and the northern cities of Mosul and Kirkuk killed nine people. In Kirkuk, a local leader of the ethnic Turkomen community escaped injury when a roadside bomb exploded near his convoy, wounding 16 people, half of them his bodyguards, police said.

Have a nice day.

posted by Wink @ 5:43 PM