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Suicide Bomber Kills 51 at Army Recruitment Center in Baghdad

   VOA News 17 August 2010
   Victims of a suicide attack are tended at a hospital in Baghdad, Iraq,
   17 Aug 2010

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   Victims of a suicide attack are tended at a hospital in Baghdad, Iraq,
   17 Aug 2010

   Iraqi  officials say at least 51 people have been killed and more than
   100 others wounded in a suicide bomb blast outside an army recruitment
   center in Baghdad.
   An  interior  ministry official said the bomber targeted army recruits
   Tuesday  in the deadliest attack in the country since the start of the
   Muslim holy month of Ramadan last week.
   The blast at the former Defense Ministry building under Saddam Hussein
   comes  amid  increased security concerns as the United States prepares
   to withdraw the last of its combat troops from Iraq by the end of this
   month
   Fifty-thousand  U.S.  troops  are  to  remain  in  Iraq  to serve as a
   transitional force. Â
   U.S. President Barack Obama has set a goal of removing all U.S. troops
   from Iraq by the end of 2011.

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

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