Updated at 5:27 p.m. EDT, May 26, 2007
At least 80 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 106 more Iraqis were injured on a day punctuated by deadly raids in Baghdad and Basra. Nine Iraqis were kidnapped. Four U.S. servicemembers were killed today in Iraq, while the U.S. military announced that four other servicemembers had been killed on Wednesday. Over 100 U.S. servicemembers have been killed this month in Iraq. Also, four British soldiers were injured in separate events in Basra today.
The U.S. military announced that an explosion killed three Task Force Lightning Soldiers today in Salah ad Dhin province. A Marine was killed in a separate incident in Anbar province. Previously unreported deaths were also announced: Two soldiers died during an IED exposion in Ramadi on May 23rd. Also on May 23rd, two soldiers were killed in an IED attack in Baghdad.
In Baghdad, police found 20 shot bodies scattered throughout the city. A combined car bomb and mortar attack in Bayaa killed seven and wounded 35 others. Five gunmen were killed during an air strike and raid that netted a militant leader; police said that two people were killed and five wounded when the same strike destroyed several cars at a petrol station. Two people were killed and seven wounded when mortars struck eastern Baghdad. In Ghazaliya, two people were killed and 11 wounded during a suicide car bomb attack on a checkpoint. In al-Ria district, gunmen fired upon a police checkpoint, killing three policemen and wounding six others. In Mansour, one civilian was killed and three wounded in a roadside bombing. Mortars in central Baghdad wounded eight people.
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