Rebel attacks hit Baghdad as Rumsfeld visits
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&quot;They know they cannot defeat us militarily. But they are hoping they can win the test of wills. It&#39;s a battle of morale.
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BAGHDAD - Two suicide car-bombings killed at least 17 people in Baghdad yesterday as US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld began an unannounced visit to Iraq.
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Two bomb blasts shook separate areas of central Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 70, while US and Iraqi forces pursued their offensive against rebel strongholds elsewhere in the country.
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Car bombers struck twice in rapid succession in the capital Sunday, killing at least 11 people including an American soldier, as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned that violence may increase before the ...
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Strong explosions shook central Baghdad at dawn on Sunday and heavy fighting erupted in a street notorious as a rebel stronghold, in violence that killed
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MOSUL, Iraq  - US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made a surprise dawn visit to US troops in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul as investigators probed a devastating suicide attack on a US army base.
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Donald Rumsfeld made a surprise Christmas Eve visit to American troops in Mosul, three days after a suicide bombing at a United States army base in the northern Iraqi city left 22 dead.
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Two blasts killed up to 18 people,  including an American soldier, in Baghdad on Sunday hours  before Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited Iraq to gauge  efforts to calm violence ahead of January elections.
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US troops struck at militant strongholds across Iraq on Wednesday, pounding insurgent positions in Baghdad and clashing with fighters in central and northern cities.
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In some of the worst violence in recent weeks in Baghdad, insurgents launched attacks Friday against Iraqi security forces in the north and west of the capital, killing at least 30 people.
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The American Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, has made a surprise visit to Iraq to assess rising violence and increased security breaches.
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Baghdad - Baghdad endured another day of violence on Wednesday when 20 people were killed and more than 200 wounded in two car bomb attacks and US-led offensives on Shiite and Sunni rebel pockets in the capital.
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More than a dozen explosions shook central Baghdad at dawn on Sunday and heavy gunfire erupted in a street at the heart of the city, leaving a US armored vehicle on fire, witnesses said.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is in Iraq, a Pentagon spokesman said Saturday.
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U.S. warplanes bombed a suspected  insurgent hideout in rebel-held Falluja on Tuesday and U.S.  tanks and aircraft bombarded areas of northeastern Baghdad,  stepping up operations against guerrilla strongholds.
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U.S. warplanes bombed a suspected insurgent hideout in rebel-held Falluja on Tuesday and U.S. tanks and aircraft bombarded areas of northeastern Baghdad, stepping up military operations against guerrillas.
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Landing under the cover of darkness, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrived in northern Iraq early Friday for an unannounced Christmas Eve visit with US troops at a base where 22 people died at the hands of a suicide bomber this