String of Baghdad bomb blasts kill 16 (wounding 87)

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At least 17 troops have been killed in combat since Saturday, including eight U.S. soldiers who died in gunbattles and bomb blasts Monday in Baghdad — the most killed in a single day in the capital since July 2005.

The casualties come amid an intensified U.S.-Iraqi military sweep launched in Baghdad in August to clear neighborhoods house by house of weapons, militiamen and insurgents.

Despite the sweep, attacks have continued in the capital, a deadly combination of attacks by Sunni insurgents and tit-for-tat killings and bombings by Shiite militias and Sunni groups that have killed thousands this month.

Just before noon, a car bomb and two roadside bombs blew up in the span of 10 minutes in a shopping district of the Camp Sara neighborhood, which is predominantly Christian, 1st Lt. Ali Abbas said.

The blasts left 16 dead and injured 87, including shoppers and 15 policemen, destroyed cars and collapsed part of a nearby building, he said.

more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061004/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

I didn't know.

You and your sidekick Dick "Five Deferments" Cheney are causing massive death, injury, and suffering to our sons and daughters for the sake of your lies and your frikking oil and munitions profits.