Bombs in Iraq kill 31, injure dozens
By QAIS AL-BASHIR, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 15 minutes ago
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A series of explosions left at least 31 people dead and wounded dozens Sunday as
Iraq's relentless violence remained unabated despite an appeal from Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for an end to sectarian fighting.
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A U.S. soldier was killed Saturday night southeast of Baghdad when his vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb explosion, the U.S. military said. At least 2,600 U.S. military personnel have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
On Sunday, a bomb planted in a small bus detonated outside the Palestine hotel in downtown Baghdad, killing at least nine people and injuring 16, police and witnesses said. Another car bomb exploded in the parking lot of a government-run newspaper in the capital, killing at least three people and injuring at least 29.......
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060827/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;_ylt=Atqe2R1pjtRDF3b7Byhsc60UewgF;_ylu=X3oDMTA3b3JuZGZhBHNlYwM3MjE-A bomb exploded in the town of al-Khalis, on the outskirts of Baqouba just north of Baghdad, killing six and wounding more than a dozen, provincial police said.