and the war continues, you know the one that is going so swimmingly

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Series of Iraq blasts kill at least 18 By QAIS AL-BASHIR, Associated Press Writer
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060827/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A series of explosions killed at least 18 people and wounded dozens Sunday as Iraq's relentless violence remained unabated despite an appeal from Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for an end to sectarian fighting.

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A bomb planted in a minivan used as a public bus detonated near the pedestrian entry point to the Palestine Hotel in downtown Baghdad, killing at least nine people and wounding 18, police and witnesses said.

Another car bomb exploded in the parking lot of the government-run al-Sabah newspaper in a Sunni-dominated area of the capital, killing at least three people and wounding 30. At least 25 cars also caught fire in the blast, and the newspaper building was badly damaged.

State-run TV reported that al-Maliki called the newspaper director to ask about the attack.

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