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To: stockman_scott who wrote (10990)	6/23/2005 4:14:30 AM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 20039

Baghdad car bombs kill 15 in 15 minutes New onslaught follows blasts that took 18 lives Thursday, June 23, 2005; Posted: 1:56 a.m. EDT (05:56 GMT) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Three car bombs exploded within a 15-minute period in the Karada neighborhood of north-central Baghdad on Thursday morning, killing 15 people and wounding another 50, Iraqi police said. The first car bomb, exploding at 7:10 a.m. (11:10 p.m. EDT), targeted the Shiite Albu Jumaa mosque, police said. The car was parked on the street near the mosque and was likely remotely detonated. Ten minutes later, a suicide car bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol exploded near a fuel station in the Karada neighborhood, police said. The third car bomb detonated five minutes after that -- at 7:25 a.m. (11:25 p.m. EDT) -- on the main street of the central shopping area of Karada, police said. Three Iraqi police officers were among the 15 killed, while all 50 of the wounded were Iraqi civilians, police said. On Wednesday night, five car bombs rocked Baghdad, including three nearly simultaneous bombings that killed 18 people and wounded 46 others in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood in northwestern Baghdad, police said. The first of those exploded outside an office operated by Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shiite cleric whose Mahdi army militia battled coalition forces for months last year. Al-Sadr has since joined other Shiite and Sunni representatives in seeking an end to sectarian violence. The other two bombs detonated in front of a garage and the main entrance to the Shu'la neighborhood, a focal point of tensions between Shiites and Sunnis in Baghdad. All three remote-controlled blasts took place within a 10-minute span around 9 p.m. (1 p.m. ET) and within a half-mile of one another, police said. Police said the bombs were meant for civilians, because no Iraqi police or security forces, often targets of insurgents, were present. Elsewhere Wednesday, a suicide car bomb targeted a U.S. military convoy on the main highway to Baghdad International Airport around 8 p.m. (noon ET), police said. No casualties were reported. The U.S. military had no comment. Another bomb detonated near an Iraqi government convoy of two cars in the eastern Baghdad neighborhood of Al-Jadeeda, wounding three civilians. The convoy fled and no one was wounded in the cars, police said.