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By Atul Aneja
MANAMA, DEC. 14. A car bomb has exploded outside the compound housing the American embassy and other government offices in Baghdad, the second in fewer than 24 hours. At least 12 persons were injured in the explosion, which took place 200 metres away from the checkpoint of the high security Green Zone. Seven persons were killed in the strike on Monday. The bomb went off during morning rush hour outside the Baghdad club — a building complex housing a training facility for the Iraqi National Guard. Most of the victims were Iraqi troops and civilians. The violence precedes the controversial January elections, which a majority of the Sunni groups are boycotting.
More troops
The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Richard Myers, announced in Baghdad today that 12,000 troops were being brought in taking the total to 1,50,000. The military command also announced that two more American troops were killed on Monday in clashes west of Baghdad. Ten soldiers, operating mainly around the violent Sunni cities of Falluja and Ramadi to the west of Baghdad, have been killed since Saturday. The U.S. bombed the Al-Askari quarter of Falluja. The fighting is impeding the return of around 250,000 residents, who left the city to escape the full scale U.S. assault on November 8. A team of the International Committee of the Red Cross that visited Falluja yesterday said it was not aware of the number of families that still resided there. It reported that hundreds of bodies remained stacked inside a potato chip warehouse on the outskirts.
Bodies found
The bodies of 14 men killed with a single bullet to the head were found in a cemetery in Mosul on Tuesday, AFP reported. More than 60 bodies, mostly of Iraqi security forces personnel have been found in the Mosul area since early December. All the major cities were without electricity on Monday for the second consecutive day. The attack on a power station in Baiji caused the power failure.
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