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Suicide Car Bomber Kills 5 in Baghdad

   VOA News 09 July 2010
   An  Iraqi Army soldier examines the wreckage of a car bomb in Baghdad,
   09 Jul 2010

Photo: AP

   An  Iraqi Army soldier examines the wreckage of a car bomb in Baghdad,
   09 Jul 2010

   Iraqi  police say a suicide car bomber has killed at least five people
   in Baghdad, the latest violence in a week of grim attacks in the Iraqi
   capital.
   Officials  say  the  attacker  drove  an  explosives-packed car into a
   security   checkpoint   in  Baghdad's  mostly  Sunni  neighborhood  of
   Ghazaliya Friday.  About 20 people were wounded.
   Attacks  targeting  Shi'ite  pilgrims  in  Baghdad killed more than 60
   other  people  this week, which marked the anniversary of Shi'ite Imam
   Moussa al-Kadhim's death.
   Overall  violence in Iraq is yet to match the peak reached in 2006 and
   2007.   But  insurgents  have  intensified attacks since inconclusive
   March elections left the country without a governing coalition.

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

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