Insurgent Attacks in Baghdad Kill 20 (Friday)

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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050429/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq


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The worst-hit area was a district of Baghdad where four suicide car bombs exploded, hitting Iraqi soldiers and police and Iraqi civilians on a Friday, the Muslim day of worship for most Iraqis.

An American soldier also was killed and four were wounded in a roadside bomb attack in Hawija, 150 miles north of Baghdad, on Thursday, the U.S. military said.

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In the Azamiyah section of Baghdad, the first suicide car bomb hit an Iraqi army patrol, the second a police patrol, and the third and fourth — in quick succession — separate barricades near the headquarters of the Interior Ministry's local special forces unit, said police chief Brig. Khalid al-Hassan.

Col. Hussein Mutlak said the attacks in Azamiyah killed at least 20 Iraqis, including 15 soldiers and five civilians. At least 65 were injured, of them 30 troops and 35 civilians, he said.