US Soldier Wounded, 9 Iraqis Killed
AFP reports that a US soldier was injured and nine Iraqis were killed Thursday in separate attacks throughout the country.
Guerrillas set off a bomb near Baquba to the northeast of Baghdad, injuring one US soldier.
Guerrillas fired a rocket in southwest Baghdad, near a US military base, killing 3 Iraqis and wounding 5. The rocket also went off near a telephone exchange, and some say that was the real target. In Mosul, guerrillas fired a rocket and employed small arms fire, killing three policemen and 2 civilians.
Assailants killed a policeman in Kirkuk.
On Wednesday, a rocket attack on a telephone exchange in Baghdad knocked out long distance service, soon after it had been restored.
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