Car bomb Kills 18 in Baghdad (Wounds Dozens)

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Source: Associated Press

Car bomb kills 18 in Baghdad
By RYAN LENZ, Associated Press Writer
6 minutes ago

BAGHDAD - A parked car bomb exploded in a commercial district of central Baghdad Thursday, killing 18 people and wounding dozens more. The bombing took place off a bridge in Tahrir Square, a district of clothing shops just outside the heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses the U.S. Embassy and much of the Iraqi government, a police official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.

The policeman and a hospital official said 18 people died. The hospital official said 57 others were injured.

The attack is the latest in a string of violence to grip Iraq's capital after several months of relative calm that followed a surge of U.S. forces last year.

There also has been a sharp increase of U.S. military deaths in recent days. Twelve Americans have been killed in the past four days, bringing the overall U.S. military death toll since the start of the war to 3,987, according to an AP count.

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1. I guess they didn't hear that this whole thing is a success now. n/t