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Bombs Rock Baghdad, Killing Dozens

Baghdad, December 28 (RHC)-- Bombs rocked Baghdad on Thursday, as the news
spread of Saddam Hussein's formal death sentence. The Pentagon confirmed
the deaths of three more of its occupation troops, bringing December's toll
to 99 -- and keeping it on course to be the bloodiest month for U.S. troops
this year.

Seven people were killed and 25 wounded when two booby traps exploded in a
popular Baghdad market during the busy morning shopping rush. Another 10
people were killed and 35 wounded in east Baghdad near the Shaab stadium
when a bomb exploded among a crowd queuing for heating fuel. And Iraqi
officials reported that south of the capital, three more civilians were
killed in two bomb attacks.

Meanwhile, north of Baghdad, two Iraqi soldiers were killed when a booby
trap exploded on the highway between the oil refinery depot of Baiji and
Saddam's hometown Tikrit, according to authorities. Another three soldiers
were wounded in the explosion, which destroyed an Iraqi military vehicle.

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