Insurgents Assassinate Governor of Baghdad Province: ; Five Americans Reported Killed in Three Separate Attacks in Iraq

Charleston Daily Mail › January 06, 2005

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents assassinated the highest-ranking Iraqi official in eight months today, gunning down the governor of Baghdad province and six of his bodyguards, and a suicide truck bomber killed 10 people at an Interior Ministry commando headquarters, the latest in a string of violence ahead of Jan. 30 elections.

Five American troops were slain in three separate attacks, officials said, in the deadliest day for the U.S. military in Iraq since a suicide bombing at a mess tent in Mosul on Dec. 21 killed 22 people, including 14 U.S. soldiers and three American contractors.

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Insurgents Assassinate Governor of Baghdad Province: ; Five Americans Reported Killed in Three Separate Attacks in Iraq

The militant group of Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al-Qaida i...

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