Reuters: Car Bomb In Baghdad Kills At Least 10

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050512/wl_nm/iraq_blast_dc

Car bomb in Baghdad kills at least 10 - police

A car bomb blast in a market in a mainly Shi'ite district of eastern Baghdad killed at least 10 people and wounded more than 20 on Thursday, police said.

They said they were investigating whether the blast was a suicide attack and what the intended target was.

The blast mangled several market stalls and scattered wreckage across the area. Thick black smoke hung over the scene.

The blast followed a series of suicide bomb attacks on Wednesday that killed at least 71 people.

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1. Now they're saying 12 killed:

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-05-12T095235Z_01_N12243236_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-IRAQ-DC.XML

By Michael Georgy
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb exploded near a market in Baghdad on Thursday, killing 12 people in the latest in a frenzy of guerrilla attacks that that have killed 400 since a new government promising stability was named two weeks ago.

The blast, which police said also wounded 56 people, followed a series of suicide bomb attacks on Wednesday that killed at least 71 people.

The death toll from suicide bombings and other attacks has been rising sharply since Iraq announced its first democratically elected cabinet on April 28.

Flames and black smoke rose skywards over mangled market stalls and cars in the mostly Shi'ite Muslim New Baghdad district after the blast. Frantic young men, some crying, pushed wooden carts carrying charred bodies of women and men. "There are families in the building. Most of them are wounded," an ambulance worker yelled over a mobile telephone.

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2. Insurgents Bomb Baghdad Market, 21 Dead (Thurs.)

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050512/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb exploded near a busy Baghdad market Thursday as insurgents unleashed another day of bloody attacks, killing at least 21 Iraqis and wounding more than 70, despite a major U.S. offensive targeting followers of Iraq's most wanted terrorist.

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Four car bombs, including at least two suicide attacks, struck in Baghdad on Thursday, said Master Sgt. Greg Kaufman, a U.S. military spokesman.

In the worst attack, an explosives-rigged car detonated near a market and cinema in the eastern New Baghdad neighborhood, killing 17 Iraqis and wounding 65, police Lt. Col. Ahmed Aboud said. The blast set fire to shops and cars and damaged a nearby apartment building

The enraged crowd turned its anger on police and journalists, beating at least two Iraqi photographers. Police and U.S. troops fired in the air to disperse the crowd, according to an Associated Press photographer at the scene.

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An Iraqi man stands atop a burned out car trying to calm the crowd after a car bomb exploded near a market in eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 12, 2005, killing at least six people and wounding 13, police said. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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3. Has anyone bothered to ask Bush

what he plans to do about the mounting death tolls in Iraq? Oh that's right, he's too busy bike riding.

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4. I'm wondering what's going through America's mind

besides the runaway bride and scheduling for the next Big Mac.

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5. kick to combine

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6. Baghdad shaken by fresh attacks

A car bomb exploded in a market in eastern Baghdad, killing at least 12 people, as a relentless anti-US insurgency swept through the country.
An Iraqi army general and a police colonel were also killed by gunmen as they drove to work in the capital.

Two car bombs exploded in the northern city of Kirkuk, one targeting a police station, leaving at least one dead.

The attacks follow one of the bloodiest days in Iraq since its government was unveiled two weeks ago.

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