BAGHDAD, Iraq – Bombings struck four coalition and Iraqi military convoys and a provincial government office Monday, killing at least eight people, including an American soldier and an Estonian trooper.
On Monday, a roadside bomb in western Baghdad killed one U.S. soldier and wounded five, the U.S. military said.
An Estonian soldier died when a roadside bomb exploded at a market just outside Baghdad as his patrol went by, the Estonian military said. Five other Estonian soldiers were wounded.
A car bomb also targeted an Australian military convoy 350 yards from their country’s embassy in Baghdad, killing three Iraqi civilians and wounding nine people, including three Australian soldiers who suffered minor injuries, Iraqi and coalition officials said.
Two Islamic groups posted Web site claims of responsibility for the attack on the Australians. One was posted in the name of Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s group, renamed Al-Qaida in Iraq. The other claim was made on behalf of the Islamic Army of Iraq. It was impossible to determine if either claim was genuine.
In near-simultaneous attacks Monday in the northern city of Mosul, suicide car bombers struck provincial government offices and a military convoy, the U.S. military said. Three government employees were killed, a government spokesman said.
Also Monday, about 150 Iraqis rallied at the Baghdad offices of CARE International to demand the release of Margaret Hassan, its Iraqi director, who was abducted Oct. 20.
Associated Press
A wounded Iraqi boy looks on following a bomb explosion Monday near a U.S.-Australian military convoy in central Baghdad, Iraq.
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