Mortars, bomb blasts rock Baghdad ahead of report
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Baghdad was rocked by mortar fire and a suicide bombing on Wednesday, hours before the planned release a U.S. panel report expected to propose that U.S. forces withdraw from combat over the next year.
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 16 -- A series of bombings damaged five churches in the capital early Saturday, and mortars later struck near a hospital and a hotel used by foreign news organizations and diplomats, Iraqi officials said. One person was reported killed and at least three wounded in the hospital attack.
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Car bombings and a barrage of missile and mortar attacks left at least 25 Iraqis dead in Baghdad. In all, more than 60 people were killed across the country today.
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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 arrived to gauge  efforts to calm violence ahead of January elections.
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Bombings and mortar attacks killed dozens across Baghdad on Monday as Iraqi troops set up new checkpoints and an Iraqi general took command &#151; indications that the much-awaited operation to restore peace to the capital is gearing up nearly a month after it was announced.
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Explosions damaged churches in Baghdad  on Saturday and the U.S. military reported the deaths of four  more American troops in bomb attacks elsewhere in Iraq.
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Iraqi insurgents hit the country&#39;s infrastructure late Thursday, carrying out a mortar attack on Baghdad&#39;s main oil refinery.
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_ Two car bombs ripped through Baghdad streets on Monday, with one blast killing at least 15 people and wounding 81 at an entrance to the Green Zone, the seat of the US Embassy and key Iraqi government offices, officials said.
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Two blasts have killed up to 18 people, including an American soldier, in Baghdad hours before US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrived to gauge efforts to calm violence ahead of January elections.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents hammered central Baghdad on Sunday with one of their most intense mortar and rocket barrages ever in the heart of the capital, heralding a day of violence that killed nearly 60 people nationwide as security appeared to spiral out of control.    On Monday, a series of explosions rocked the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah and clouds of smoke rose into the sky, witnesses said...
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Strong explosions shook central Baghdad  at dawn Sunday and heavy fighting erupted in a street notorious  as a rebel stronghold, in violence that killed at least 22  Iraqis, the U.S. army and witnesses said.
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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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Dozens of loud explosions rocked southern Baghdad in quick succession on Thursday evening, Reuters witnesses said.
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 5 -- Bombs and mortar shells killed more than 37 people in Baghdad on Monday, as U.S. officials said that the command structure for the new security crackdown in the capital was ready.
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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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Two mortars were fired at a hotel used  by journalists and foreign contractors in Baghdad on Sunday.  There were no initial reports of any injuries or damage.
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Loud explosions echoed through the Iraqi capital Tuesday morning as a number of mortar rounds landed near government offices, the Interior Ministry and witnesses said. There was no immediate word on casualties.