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Blasts kill over 120 in Iraq; 5 US soilders die
(AP)
Updated: 2005-11-20 13:54
The five American soldiers — assigned to the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the
101st Airborne Division — died in a pair of roadside bombings near Beiji, 155
miles north of Baghdad, the U.S. command said. Five others from the same unit
were wounded.
A wounded Iraqi walks on debris after two car bombs exploded
near a Baghdad hotel. At least 67 worshippers were killed in suicide
attacks on two Shiite mosques in eastern Iraq near the border with Iran,
hours after suicide bombers killed six people outside a Baghdad hotel.
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Another soldier from the 101st died in
a U.S. hospital in Germany of injuries suffered two days ago when his vehicle
was deliberately rammed by an Iraqi car near Beiji, the U.S. command said
Saturday.
At least 2,090 members of the U.S. military have died since the war began in
March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
In Cairo, Egypt, Shiite and Kurdish delegates stormed out of an Iraqi
reconciliation conference, infuriated by a speaker who branded them as U.S.
sellouts. They were persuaded to return after an apology.
The walkout highlighted the sectarian and political divisions at the
all-party gathering, which the Arab League called to prepare for a bigger
meeting to be held later in Iraq.
"They are insulting the Iraqi people and they are insulting the constitution
on which several million Iraqis have voted," Shiite legislator Jawad al-Maliki
told reporters outside the chamber after the brief walkout. "They want the
situation in Iraq to go back to the way it used to be so that the mass graves
can return."
In Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraqi officials said police and
U.S. soldiers surrounded a house before dawn Saturday after reports that
al-Qaida in Iraq members were inside, said Brig. Said Ahmed al-Jubouri, a Mosul
police spokesman.
As a fierce gunbattle broke out, three insurgents detonated explosives and
killed themselves to avoid capture. Five more died fighting, while four police
officers also were killed. Al-Jubouri said officials were attempting to identify
the dead insurgents.
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