Shia politician among Iraq dead

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Daily roundup.

A car bomber blew himself up on Sunday at 5:20pm (1420 GMT) in the path of a US military convoy in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, 370km north of Baghdad, police said.

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Aljazeera has learned that hundreds of residents of al-Saqlawiya town, north of Falluja, took to the streets on Sunday to protest against the alleged detention of the mother of a wanted man who was subsequently killed during a raid by US forces on his house.

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Elsewhere, unidentified armed men assassinated an official of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq and two of his bodyguards near Baquba, 60km northeast of Baghdad, Aljazeera reported.

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Another soldier was killed and two more were wounded at around 11 am (0800 GMT) in violence in Balad, about 70km north of Baghdad, Asad Sudad, a police captain there, said.

al Jazeera

[ClintonTyree]

1. Things are so good over there, if it got any rosier................

everybody would have to wear sunglasses. According to the White House and their MSM Press Puppies, anyway.