"Sunday Bloody Sunday"

Associated Press
Thursday, December 7, 2006

"BAGHDAD, Iraq — Eleven U.S. servicemembers have been killed in Iraq on a single day, the American military command announced today. ...

At least 31 U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq in the first week of this month. At least 2,919 service members have been killed from all causes since the war started in 2003, according to an AP count.

Meanwhile, 75 Iraqis were killed or found dead across the nation Wednesday, including 48 whose bullet-riddled bodies were found in different parts of Baghdad.

Two mortar rounds landed and exploded in a secondhand goods market in a mixed Shiite-Sunni area in central Baghdad, killing at least eight people and wounding dozens, said police officers Ali Mutab and Mohammed Khayoun.

About 25 minutes later, a suicide bomber on a bus in Sadr City detonated explosives hidden in his clothing, killing two people and wounding 15, police 1st Lt. Thaer Mahmoud said.

It appeared to be the first attack by suspected Sunni Arab insurgents on the large slum since Nov. 23, when a bombing and mortar attack killed 215 people in the deadliest single attack since the Iraq war began more than three years ago." [more]

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