ITS NOT A CIVIL WAR UNTIL THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION SAYS SO, , DONT MIND THE 100S OF DEAD IRAQIS A WEEK, CLOSE YOUR EYES AND GO SHOPPING...MY BAD ONLY 50 DIED THIS WEEK..

At least 54 dead in Baghdad bombing
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
LAUREN FRAYER
The Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A string of car bombs and other blasts killed at least 54 Iraqis on Tuesday, including 17 outside Baghdad's most venerated Sunni mosque, while U.S. troops battled Shiite militiamen in Baghdad.

Seven more American soldiers died, the U.S. military said, pushing the December death toll to 90 in one of the bloodiest months for the American troops in Iraq this year. Some 105 troops were killed in October.

President Bush is weighing whether to send thousands more troops to Iraq, but a senior Democratic senator, Joseph Biden, said Tuesday he would fight such a move.
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23 Iraqis, Four U.S. Service Members Killed; Kidnapped Americans Believed
BAGHDAD â?? At least 23 Iraqis were killed in attacks on Thursday, and the U.S. military announced the deaths of three American soldiers and one Marine.

In addition, The U.S. Embassy said Thursday it believes four American security contractors and an Austrian remain in captivity after a video surfaced this week. They were kidnapped in southern Iraq six weeks ago.

Two bombs exploded shortly after 10 a.m. opposite a park in the South Gate area, killing nine civilians and wounding 43, a police officer said on condition of anonymity because of security concerns. South Gate is often crowded with commuters and shoppers.

A bomb planted under a car killed 12 civilians and wounded 26 others near al-Sha'ab stadium in eastern Baghdad, police said. The bomb exploded among a group of people lining up to buy kerosene.

Another blast targeted a police patrol in western Baghdad but missed, killing two civilians instead, police said. Four others were wounded and taken to Yarmouk
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War's toll: 12,000 dead Iraqi policemen
By Lauren Frayer, Associated Press
Article Launched: 12/24/2006 03:33:36 PM PST


BAGHDAD, Iraq - Some 12,000 Iraqi policemen have been killed since the ouster of Saddam Hussein, the country's interior minister said Sunday, as clashes, a suicide bomber and weekend explosions killed more than a dozen Iraqi officers and four American soldiers.

At a news conference in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani said despite the thousands of police deaths "when we call for new recruits, they come by the hundreds and by the thousands."

Among the deaths Sunday were seven police officers killed when a suicide bomber hit a police station in Muqdadiyah, northeast of the capital. The bombing was followed by six mortar rounds. In Mosul, a drive-by shooting killed two policemen.

Though police have been targeted by insurgent attacks, they have also been blamed for violence. Gunmen in Iraqi army and police uniforms have been responsible for recent bank robberies in Baghdad and the kidnapping of more than 40 workers and volunteers at the Iraqi Red Crescent.

Al-Bolani vowed to rid his ministry of rogue officers.

"We formed committees to clean and purge ... to dismiss the bad elements from the ministry and build our institutions," al-Bolani said. http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_4896744