Wednesday's developments in Iraq:
A suicide car bomb exploded on a busy downtown boulevard in Baqouba, northeast of Baghdad. The explosion ripped through a commuter bus during rush hour, wrecking nearby shops and killing at least 68 Iraqis. The blast targeted Iraqis lined up outside a police recruiting station, and most of the victims were civilians or from among the hundreds of men waiting to join the force.
In Suwariyah, southeast of the capital, Iraqi forces backed by U.S. and Ukrainian troops launched a raid hunting for militants who had crossed from the Iranian border. The raid sparked a battle in which 35 guerrillas and seven Iraqi policemen were killed, 10 Iraqi police were wounded and 40 insurgents were captured.
In Anbar province west of Baghdad, insurgents killed two coalition troops and enemy fire forced two U.S. military aircraft to make emergency landings. Insurgents launched near simultaneous attacks on several U.S. bases in Ramadi, wounding 10 soldiers, the military said. A guerrilla was killed, and during the fighting a mortar hit an apartment building, killing an Iraqi woman.
A roadside bomb exploded north of Baghdad, killing one U.S. soldier and wounding three others, the U.S. military said. The death raised the toll of U.S. military personnel killed in Iraq to at least 906 since the war began, according to an Associated Press tally.
A U.S. soldier was killed and three others wounded late Tuesday when a roadside bomb severely damaged their armored Humvee while patrolling the town of Balad-Ruz, about 40 miles northwest of Baghdad, the Army said.
Insurgents fired a rocket that landed near a police station the Rahmaniya neighborhood of Baghdad, killing one Iraqi and wounding four.
In the northern city of Kirkuk, gunmen in a car killed a policeman as he waited for a taxi to get to work.
You know, it's so much like when our own Articles of Confederation didn't work out, it's uncanny. No wonder Bush keeps saying that!
He's a history major, you know. A C fucking history major.
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