2 Frenchmen killed west of Baghdad

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Guerrillas shot and killed two French civilians west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the US military said on Tuesday, and Egypt warned of anarchy in the country if Washington handed over power to Iraqis prematurely. Another Frenchman was wounded in Monday's drive-by shooting near the town of Fallujah, the latest in a wave of nonstop attacks on Western troops and other foreigners in the country.

In Iraq's second city of Basra, at least two people were killed on Tuesday when Iraqi police opened fire on stone-throwing soldiers of the disbanded Iraqi army as they protested to demand payment of salaries. Four people with gunshot wounds were taken to hospital after the incident, witnesses in the southern city said. Two died of their injuries, doctors said. And in the central town of Baquba, residents shouted anti-US slogans as they buried two men they said were shot without provocation by American soldiers as they returned home from a coffee house on Monday evening.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, leader of the most populous Arab country, said attempts were being made to sow discord between Iraq's Sunni Muslims and Shiite Muslims and between Arabs and Kurds.
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