Reuters: Insurgents Kill 10 Iraqis in Baquba

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7822932

Also, BBC link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4324639.stm

Insurgents Kill 10 Iraqis in Baquba Violence
Mon Mar 7, 2005 03:46 AM ET


By Faris Mehdawi
BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - Insurgents attacked Iraqi security forces with a suicide car bomb, mortars and land mines in Baquba on Monday, killing at least 10 in the latest unrest as politicians squabbled over the country's new government.

An investigation into the shooting death of a Bulgarian soldier last week in Iraq showed that U.S. troops were probably responsible, the Balkan state's Defense Minister Nikolai Svinarov told a news conference in Sofia on Monday.

"Someone started shooting at our patrol from the west, and in the same direction, 150 meters away, there was a unit from the U.S. army," he said.

Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena, shot and wounded after being freed in Iraq, said on Sunday U.S. forces may have deliberately targeted her because Washington opposed Italy's policy of dealing with kidnappers. Police in the tense town 40 miles northeast of Baghdad said the insurgent attack began when five Iraqi soldiers were killed in an ambush outside Baquba. A suicide car bomb later targeted police heading to reinforce the area, killing two policemen and wounding 12 people.

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1. 16 Iraqis Killed in Insurgent Attacks

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=1&u=/ap/20050307/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

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"Guerrillas launched a series of attacks with bombs and gunfire in Iraq on Monday, killing 16 people and wounding dozens as the country took its first major step toward forming a government whose most crucial task will be dealing with the insurgency.

Most of Monday's fatalities occurred in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, where insurgents launched a series of apparently coordinated attacks that killed seven soldiers and five police, said Tariq Ibrahim, a medic at Baqouba's main hospital. He said at least 26 people were wounded, including one civilian caught in the crossfire.

The assaults included a car bomb, three roadside bombs and small arms attacks three checkpoints, one of them just south of Baqouba in Muradiyah, said police Col. Mudhafar al-Jubbori.

Insurgents also fired a mortar around near the blue-domed governor's office, causing no casualties, a spokesman for the U.S. 42nd Infantry Division, Maj. Richard Goldenberg. He said Iraqi police came under small arms fire shortly afterward on a highway south of the city."