String Of Attacks Rattles Iraq
Suicide Bomber Kills 4; Violence Amid Plan To Quiet Insurgency
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A man walks past a bomb scene after a bomb was left in a bag in a minibus in southeastern Baghdad and struck a police patrol, wounding two policemen, according to police, in Baghdad, Iraq Thursday, June 29, 2006. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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Iraqis walk past the damaged shrine following an explosion in Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2006. (AP)
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Iraqis rally at the ruins of a Shrine in Samarra, Iraq, Feb. 22, 2006. (AP)
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Gen. George Casey speaks while Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld stands by during a news conference at the Pentagon, Thursday, June 22, 2006. (Getty Images)
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A sister of the secretary, center, grieves with other unidentified relatives, after unknown gunmen shot dead dentist Sa'adi Younis and wounded his secretary Mohammed Ali nearby their clinic in Al-Tayaran square in the city center of Kirkuk in northern Iraq Wednesday, at the hospital in Kirkuk Thursday, June 29, 2006. (AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed)
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Iraqi police say a suicide car bomber struck a funeral in Kirkuk, killing 4 people and wounding 27. Meanwhile, a trash collector and the head of security for Baghdad University were also slain Thursday.
At least six other deaths were reported in the capital, including two merchants, a baker, an electrical worker and a woman sitting in her car with three of her sons, who were wounded. Police also found the body of a man who had been blindfolded, handcuffed and shot in the head in western Baghdad.
The violence came a day after insurgent and government officials said 11 militant groups have offered an immediate halt to all attacks, including those on American troops, if the United States agrees to withdraw foreign forces from Iraq in two years.
Withdrawal is the centerpiece of a set of demands from the groups, which operate north of Baghdad in the heavily Sunni Arab provinces of Salahuddin and Diyala. Although much of the fighting has been to the west, those provinces are increasingly violent and attacks there have crippled oil and commerce routes.
The trash collector, a Shiite, was gunned down in a drive-by shooting early Thursday in western Baghdad, police Capt. Jamil Hussein said.
Gunmen in a civilian car also intercepted a car carrying Kadhim Challoub, who was in charge of the guards at Baghdad University, ordered his driver and his guard out, then killed the security chief on the eastern side of the capital, according to police Lt. Mohammad Khayoun.
A roadside bomb aimed at a police patrol in northern Baghdad missed its target but killed one civilian and wounded another.
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