14 dead, 16 hurt in Iraq mortar attack

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Two mortar shells slammed into a coffee shop in a Shiite neighborhood Tuesday in Baghdad, killing at least 14 people and wounding 16 others, police said.

The attack appeared to have been in response to mortar fire on a Sunni neighborhood across the Tigris River earlier Tuesday that killed seven people and wounded 25.

In other news,
Iraq's Interior Ministry said that it has charged 57 members of the Iraqi police, including a general, in the alleged torture of hundreds of detainees at a prison in eastern Baghdad.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061107/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

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