Bomb attacks across Iraq kill 24

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http://reuters.myway.com/article/20050602/2005-06-02T131352Z_01_N02646325_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-IRAQ-DC.html

Bomb attacks across Iraq kill 24

By Andrew Marshall

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents killed at least 24 people in motorcycle and car bomb attacks on Thursday, one targeting the bodyguards of Iraq's Kurdish deputy prime minister and another killing a deputy provincial governor.

In the northern town of Tuz Khurmatu, on the highway between Baghdad and the strategic oil city of Kirkuk, a suicide bomber plowed his car into a restaurant where bodyguards of Deputy Prime Minister Rowsch Shways were eating, police said.

Doctors said 12 people were killed and 37 wounded.

The Army of Ansar al-Sunna, one of Iraq's most feared insurgent groups, claimed the attack in an Internet statement.

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[leftchick]

1. Make that 34...

Series of Attacks Kill 34 in Iraq

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050602/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;_ylt=At_r7xiE4UaskVgH4ouGu_6s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--

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Twenty people were killed as a wide swath of northern Iraq was hit by three suicide bombings within an hour.

A suicide bomber struck a restaurant in Tuz Khormato, 50 miles south of the northern city of Kirkuk, during breakfast hours Thursday, killing at least 12 people, including a bodyguard of a deputy prime minister, and wounding 40, according to the Iraqi Defense Ministry and police.

The blast set ablaze eight cars in the restaurant's parking lot, the focal point of a bloody, rubble-strewn scene that U.S. and Iraqi police quickly cordoned off. Shards of glass, shoes and splattered breakfast meals covered the restaurant's floor as emergency workers raced around overturned tables and wooden chairs in a bid to treat the casualties.

Earlier in Kirkuk, a suicide car bomber targeting a convoy of Toyota Land Cruisers carrying civilian contractors killed four Iraqi bystanders and wounded at least 11 others, said Dr. Bassam Mohammed of Kirkuk Emergency Hospital. None of the occupants in the convoy was injured, although one vehicle was damaged, the U.S. military said.

... and on and on and on... :(

[sabra]

3. Wow

Will June top May? Not a good start to the month :-(

[johncoby2]

2. FREEEEEEEEEEDOM! eom