Baghdad bomb blasts leave 16 dead
/Two powerful car bombs have killed at least 16
people and injured dozens more in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. The
first bomb went off outside an army recruitment centre near an entrance
to the high-security Green Zone in the centre of the city, witnesses
said. The second exploded as a US military convoy was passing along a
main road on the east side of the river Tigris. Bursts of gunfire were
heard as a huge cloud of black smoke rose over central Baghdad. In
other developments on Monday: US warplanes carried out pre-dawn raids
on the rebel-held city of Falluja, killing at least nine people,
hospital officials said, A car bomb exploded near a primary school in
the northern city of Mosul killing at least three people, Iraqi police
said and A director of Iraq's science ministry, Thamer Abdellatif, was
shot dead on his way to work, along with a female colleague, the Iraqi
interior ministry said. [more 
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]- Two U.S. Soldiers Killed in Baghdad [more ]
