Rumsfeld Visits Baghdad as Blasts Kill Up to 18
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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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BAGHDAD  - At least 26 people, including 12 policemen, were killed in double attacks in Baghdad as US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld admitted that he had underestimated the Iraq insurgency.
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Some 22 people were reportedly killed in a rocket attack on a US military base, as British Prime Minister Tony Blair made a first visit to Baghdad saying Iraq was caught in a battle between "democracy and terror".
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Two bombs explode in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killing at least 43 people in the deadliest attacks for months.
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Nine people died and 14 were seriously wounded in a gas tanker explosion in west Baghdad just hours after a surprise visit to the Iraqi capital by US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
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Car bombings in Iraq&#39;s capital Baghdad on Thursday have killed at least 45 people and injured more than 200 others. Attacks on US troops have risen around 80 a day.
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Description: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld pays a surprise visit to troops in Iraq, landing first at the US base near Mosul where an insurgent attack three days ago killed 22 people.
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Two bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, leave at least 29 people dead, among them a group of Shia pilgrims.
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An explosion kills four people in Baghdad, as US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrives in Iraq.
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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 US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned that violence may increase before the January election.
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In Iraq, interim Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, has visited Baghdad&#39;s violence-ridden Sadr City. Earlier, three people were killed and at least nine wounded in a mortar attack on the neighborhood.
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US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld makes a surprise visit to the Iraqi city of Mosul, two days after a bomb killed 22 people.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld  paid a surprise Christmas visit to troops in the Iraqi city of  Mosul, scene this week of the deadliest attack on Americans  since last year's war to oust Saddam Hussein.
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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 car bombs in Baghdad killed at least 11 people, including a U.S. soldier. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made a surprise visit to troops in the field. Also, Marine was reported killed in action west of the capital.
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BAGHDAD - US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is on his first visit to Iraq since its interim government was installed in June. Speaking to 1,500 Marines at an air base he said the insurgent violence is likely
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Rumsfeld arrived in the pre-dawn darkness and immediately went to visit some of the 70 people injured in the bombing.