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Blasts kill 18 and wound 53 in Baghdad
Reuters
Wednesday, Dec 17, 2008
Twin bomb blasts killed 18 people and wounded 53 in central Baghdad
on Wednesday as Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an unannounced
visit to Iraq, police said.
The car bomb and a second explosion killed police and civilians
in the Nahdha neighbourhood of central Baghdad, near a traffic
police station and a hospital.
Violence has dropped sharply in Iraq, where the U.S.-led invasion
in 2003 unleashed years of sectarian bloodshed and insurgent attacks.
But car bombs, assassinations and other violence are still routine.
Iraqi security forces, which are increasingly taking responsibility
for imposing order as U.S. forces prepare to withdraw by end-2011,
are frequent targets. On Monday, nine police were killed in Baghdad
in a suicide bombing.
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Brown arrived in Baghdad on Wednesday morning on his fourth visit
as the British leader. He met Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and
discussed plans to withdraw the remaining 4,100 British troops
from southern Iraq by the end of July 2009.
Wednesday's bombings were some distance away, on the other side
of the Tigris river from the heavily-fortified Green Zone where
Brown met Maliki.
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