Iraqi Rivals Trying to Fine-Tune Constitution for Voter Approval

Three car bombs, including two suicide bombs, exploded within a three-hour period on Monday morning in central Baghdad, the American and Iraqi authorities reported. One was at a checkpoint leading into the Green Zone, the fortified area containing American and Iraqi government buildings. The blast k...

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Published inThe New York times
Main Authors Semple, Kirk, Robert F. Worth and Khalid W. Hassan contributed reporting from Baghdad for this article, and an Iraqi employee of The New York Times from Kirkuk
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, N.Y New York Times Company 11.10.2005
EditionLate Edition (East Coast)
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Constitutions
Minority & ethnic groups
Referendums
Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 10
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Summary:Three car bombs, including two suicide bombs, exploded within a three-hour period on Monday morning in central Baghdad, the American and Iraqi authorities reported. One was at a checkpoint leading into the Green Zone, the fortified area containing American and Iraqi government buildings. The blast killed an American soldier and wounded an Iraqi soldier, an interpreter and an Iraqi civilian, the American military said, but an Interior Ministry official said three Iraqi soldiers had been killed and five civilians wounded. The Interior Ministry official spoke on the condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the news media. Four Iraqi Army recruits were killed and 10 wounded in two overnight attacks near the northern oil city of Kirkuk, said Brig. Sarhad Qadir of the Kirkuk police. Investigators also recovered four bodies from the Tigris River near Hawija in northern Iraq, said Maj. Mahmoud Abdullah al-Hamu of the national police. The bodies were blindfolded and handcuffed, he said.
ISSN:0362-4331