Car Bomb in Central Iraq Kills 5; Gunmen Kill Education Official in Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A car bomb exploded Saturday in central Iraq, killing five people, including four police officers on patrol, while gunmen killed an education official in Baghdad. A U.S. Marine was killed in Ramadi, the military said Saturday.
The car bomb in Khan Bani Saad, near the troubled city of Baqouba in central Iraq, also injured two police officers and three civilians, provincial police Col. Mudafar al-Jubori said.

In Baghdad, gunmen opened fire from a car, killing Hassib Zamil outside of the Education Ministry offices in the Sadr City neighborhood, education official Ibrahim Abid Wali said.

The Marine was killed Friday while conducting security operations in Ramadi, the U.S. military said.

In the capital Friday, insurgents fired a rocket propelled grenade and shot at an armored vehicle used to transport U.S. troops on a road leading to the dangerous airport highway, injuring two American soldiers, the U.S. military said.

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no time for Iraq anymore. It does not exist in the minds of ameriKans. :banghead:



A U.S. helicopter flies over the scene of an attack against an M-1064 armoured personel carrier, burning in the background, in West Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, April 1st, 2005. Two were injured in the attack. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)