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Baghdad April 2, 2006 - 11:04PM Insurgents blew up a small Shi'ite mosque north-east of Baghdad today, while police reported the discovery of nearly 40 bodies in several neighbourhoods of the Iraqi capital.
The US military reported the death of three American soldiers.
The status of the crew of a US helicopter that crashed yesterday south-west of Baghdad remained unclear.
In Baqouba, 55km north-east of Baghdad, unidentified gunmen planted explosives around the small Guba Shi'ite mosque and blew it up, police said. No casualties were reported.
Gunmen assassinated a Sunni Arab sheikh, Abdul-Minaam Awad, today in his village of Zobaa 60km west of Baghdad, a Sunni clerical association announced.
A prominent Sunni MP in Baghdad, meanwhile, reported his brother disappeared last week in a possible kidnapping.
Also today, six insurgents died while manufacturing a homemade bomb inside a house in Madain, about 20km south-east of Baghdad, police said.
Two American soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb while on patrol in central Baghdad late yesterday, the US military said. --> and this war will end up costing US. taxpayers trillions because of one man called Bush?!!
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