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April 22, 2007

Gunmen Kill 23 Members of Iraqi Minority Group
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?ctl=172AA88:A6F02AD83191E16052CA479424741AFD9574F7DCC14957C0 Earlier Sunday, two
suicide car bombers in Baghdad killed at least 12 people near a police
station and wounding more than 75 Iraqi police say gunmen have killed
23 members of the Yazidi religious minority in northern Iraq.

Police say the gunmen stopped buses carrying the Yazidis home from
work outside Mosul.  They say the 23 were dragged to the side of the
road and shot.

Earlier Sunday, two suicide car bombers in Baghdad killed at least 12
people near a police station.

At least 75 other people were wounded in the blasts in the mostly
Shi'ite al-Bayaa neighborhood.  The victims included police and
civilians.

In Basra in southern Iraq, British soldiers killed a man during a raid
on his house.

And the U.S. military said Sunday that an American soldier was killed
in an attack on a base southwest of Baghdad Saturday.

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General David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, told "The
Washington Post" newspaper the increase in American and Iraqi troops
since February has improved security in Baghdad and Anbar province.  
But he said attacks have risen sharply in other regions.

During a meeting with Australian Defense Minister Brendan Nelson in
Baghdad Saturday, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said the
security plan is moving in the right direction, despite the challenges
facing it.

Some information for this report provided by AP, AFP.




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