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At least five killed, 31 wounded in Iraq violence (Roundup)
Mar 7, 2008, 15:20 GMT
Baghdad - At least five people were killed Friday and 31 wounded in separate incidents around Iraq, media reports said.
In Mosul, some 400 kilometres north of Baghdad, four police officers were killed and 17 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle, the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency said.
The suicide bomber targeted a police station in the Ras al-Jada area of western Mosul in the early hours Friday.
Also in Mosul, one civilian was killed and 14 wounded when two explosive devices went off.
The first bomb was detonated in front of a policeman's house in the Nabi Sheet area central Mosul.
Few minutes later, another bomb exploded in the same area, killing a civilian and wounding 14.
Separately, the death toll of Thursday's twin explosions in Baghdad rose Friday to 68 killed and 120 injured, police officials said.
Two roadside bombs went off in quick succession late Thursday in Baghdad's busy Qarada business district, VOI quoted police as saying.
The first bomb went off around 7 pm and the second blast came as people gathered to help the wounded, according to broadcaster CNN.
Police said the explosions also left some storefronts damaged in the crowded commercial district located in central Baghdad.
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The Iraq's know the surge is coming to an end, and the struggle for who will control Iraq once we leave has begun. It appears from these incidents that a titanic struggle is smoldering just beneath the surface between modernist, and Shia conservatives. What a waste of American blood and treasure, I mean who gives a dam, neither group has behaved in a way that makes you believe all we have given has been worth it.
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SP4Mar 7th, 2008 - 17:19:03
The surge is working
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