Bombings, shootings kill 10 in Iraq By

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

BAGHDAD - Bombings and shootings killed 10 people Wednesday, including three Sunni brothers who were shot to death in Baghdad, and nearly 4,000 U.S. soldiers arrived in the capital as a crackdown aimed at quelling the sectarian violence entered its 12th week.

The security efforts come as President Bush is engaged in a fierce debate with the Democratic-led Congress over the war in Iraq. Bush vetoed legislation to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq Tuesday night in a historic showdown with Congress over whether the unpopular and costly war should end or escalate.

Meanwhile, an international conference on Iraq begins Thursday in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik at which the U.S. administration is expected to press hard for countries to forgive billions of dollars in Iraqi debt to help the Shiite-led government as it tries to rein in the violence.

Gunmen killed the three Sunni brothers about 3 a.m. and set the house on fire in a religiously mixed neighborhood of Rusala in western Baghdad, police said.



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[maddezmom]

1. Car bomb kills 6, wounds 45 in Baghdad - hospital

BAGHDAD, May 2 (Reuters) - A car bomb killed at least six people and wounded 45 near a police station in a Shi'ite stronghold in Baghdad on Wednesday, a hospital official said.

The car bomb went off around dusk in Sadr City, police said.

more:http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L02720463.htm

[Eugene]

2. Bomb on minibus kills 11; 30 bodies found in Baghdad - Reuters Factbox

Source: Reuters

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, May 2
02 May 2007 19:48:20 GMT
Source: Reuters

May 2 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1930 GMT
on Wednesday:

* denotes new or updated item.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed 10 people and wounded 35 near a police station
in the Baghdad Shi'ite stronghold of Sadr City, police said.

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BAGHDAD - Thirty bodies have been found around Baghdad in the past 24
hours, police said. All had been shot.

BAGHDAD - Several mortar rounds landed in Abu Dshir, a residential district
in southern Baghdad, killing three people and wounding eight, police said.

-snip-

MAHMUDIYA - A bomb planted inside a minibus killed up to 11 people in the
town of Mahmudiya, about 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/TAI267010.htm

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The Factbox lists 86 persons killed or found dead Wednesday
plus 6 killed Tuesday.

[Eugene]

3. Updated story at link: Police: 85 Iraqis killed nationwide

Source: Associated Press

Police: 85 Iraqis killed nationwide

By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 35 minutes ago

BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomber struck in the main Shiite district
of the capital Wednesday, killing at least nine people as the U.S.
military said its troop buildup in Baghdad was nearly complete.
Three more U.S. soldiers were killed by bombs in the capital.

At least 85 Iraqis were killed or found dead nationwide, police
reported. They also included eight people who lost their lives
when a roadside bomb destroyed their minibus about 20 miles
south of Baghdad.

The suicide attack occurred at dusk near a police station in Sadr
City, the Baghdad stronghold of the Mahdi Army militia. Three
policemen and six civilians were killed and 34 people were
wounded, police said.

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Despite the latest carnage, U.S. and Iraqi officials presented an
upbeat picture of the security situation in the capital, insisting
that sectarian killings were down while acknowledging the threat
from the bombers.

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