Bombings, shootings kill 10 in Iraq By

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Source: AP

BAGHDAD - Bombings and shootings killed 10 people Wednesday, including three Sunni brothers who were shot to death in Baghdad, and nearly 4,000 U.S. soldiers arrived in the capital as a crackdown aimed at quelling the sectarian violence entered its 12th week.

The security efforts come as President Bush is engaged in a fierce debate with the Democratic-led Congress over the war in Iraq. Bush vetoed legislation to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq Tuesday night in a historic showdown with Congress over whether the unpopular and costly war should end or escalate.

Meanwhile, an international conference on Iraq begins Thursday in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik at which the U.S. administration is expected to press hard for countries to forgive billions of dollars in Iraqi debt to help the Shiite-led government as it tries to rein in the violence.

Gunmen killed the three Sunni brothers about 3 a.m. and set the house on fire in a religiously mixed neighborhood of Rusala in western Baghdad, police said.



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