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Bus Bomb in Baghdad's Sadr City Kills 2
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?ctl=11F0599:3919ACA Attack follows
bloody round of car bombings, shootings in Iraqi capital on Monday
that killed 14 people and wounded more than 80 others Iraqi police say
a bomb killed at least two people in Baghdad's mainly Shi'ite Sadr
City neighborhood Tuesday.

They say the bomb, hidden in an minibus, wounded three others.  It
exploded near the office of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, a militia
leader and major Shi'ite figure.

Elsewhere in Baghdad, two bomb attacks wounded four police officers. 
And south of the capital, gunmen killed a school teacher.







Iraqi women waiting outside hospital look at bloody stretcher as
victims of car bomb explosion are brought in Monday April 24, 2006

On Monday, car bombings and shootings in the Iraqi capital killed 14
people and wounded 80.  Authorities also discovered the bodies of 28
men, most of them police recruits, who had been shot to death and
dumped at two sites in Baghdad.

On the political front, Iraq's Prime Minister-designate Jawad
al-Maliki is working to form a national unity government.

Mr. Maliki was designated prime minister Saturday after Iraq's
Shi'ite, Sunni Arab and Kurdish parties settled a four-month deadlock
over leadership positions.

U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the political leaders'
approval of Mr. Maliki and other top officials is a "thrilling" and
"enormous" accomplishment.  He also linked the U.S. presence in Iraq
and Afghanistan to what he sees as the need to prevent Iran from
carrying out policies that are, in his words, "dangerous to the
world."

Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.


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