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Nine Iraqis killed, many wounded in Mosul blast

By Atul Aneja

MANAMA, JUNE 8. A series of strikes across Iraq on Tuesday killed 14 Iraqis and left scores wounded. Six troops belonging to the U.S.-led occupation forces were killed while disposing of ammunition from an Iraqi depot in the Polish-run occupation zone, south of Baghdad. A Polish military spokesman was quoted as saying that three Slovaks, two Poles and one Latvian were the ones killed near Al-Suvariya.

Signalling that the recent appointment of the Iraqi interim administration would not make them alter their course, guerillas appeared to have attempted the assassination of three U.S.-backed high-ranking officials in Mosul. A bomb ripped through a city hall close to a convoy in which two members of a provincial council and the deputy police chief of Mosul were travelling. The two council members escaped unhurt but the police official was slightly injured. But the powerful explosion killed nine Iraqis and injured nearly 100 persons.

Eyewitnesses said three bombers came in orange and white taxis, which they detonated. The blast engulfed nine vehicles at the scene in flames, but the city hall escaped significant damage. In Baquba, on the outskirts of Baghdad, one U.S. soldier and at least five Iraqis were killed when a suicide bomber exploded a car bomb outside the crowded American forward operating base this morning. Ten American soldiers and 15 Iraqis were also wounded in this attack, as they stood next to a checkpoint.

Also on Tuesday, the U.S. military command reported that a Marine was killed in action on Monday in the Anbar province, west of Baghdad. The spurt in violence comes ahead of the June 30 deadline when the Iraqi interim government will formally assume authority.

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