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Car Bomber Kills 9, Injures 11 By Open Air Market, Mini Bus Bomber Kills 3 Injurs 19

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - British troops killed seven gunmen in a raid on a renegade police unit in southern Iraq on Monday, and a car bomb that exploded next to an open-air market in Baghdad killed nine civilians and wounded 11.

The car bombing hit an area of a mostly Shiite district in the capital's east that often attracts crowds of shoppers as well as laborers looking for work. In another part of eastern Baghdad, a suicide bomber exploded in a minibus, killing three people and injuring 19, police said.

Earlier, a suicide bomber killed three policemen at checkpoint at a university entrance in Ramadi, capital of Anbar province, a stronghold of the Sunni-dominated insurgency. The deaths came a day after Iraq's interior minister said attacks targeting police had killed some 12,000 officers since the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein.

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posted by Wink @ 9:26 AM