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Suicide Attacks, Bombings Kill Dozens in Iraq
An Iraqi policeman stands watch at the site of a lunchtime car bombing outside a restaurant in Shiite eastern Baghdad that killed at least five people.
(By Karim Kadim -- Associated Press)
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[Two car bombs killed 15 people and wounded 32 in the southern Iraqi town of Qurna on Friday, according to hospital officials, the Reuters news agency reported.]
Meanwhile, the British ambassador to Iraq, Dominic Asquith, reached out to the group that abducted five Britons last week, saying in a statement to the news media, "We have people here in Iraq who are ready to listen to any person about this incident, or any person who may be holding these men and who may wish to communicate."
A spokeswoman for the embassy said the statement was an appeal "to open lines" for information and did not imply a willingness to negotiate for release of the hostages.
"Government policy has not changed," she said. "We do not get involved in deals."
The U.S. military reported Thursday that an American soldier was killed and two were injured Wednesday by a roadside bomb in southwest Baghdad. The death brings to 3,504 the number of U.S. military deaths in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion, according to a tally by icasualties.org, an independent group that monitors deaths in Iraq. A British soldier was killed and three were wounded Thursday by small-arms fire northwest of Basra, the British Defense Ministry reported. It was the 150th British military death in the war, according to icasualties.org.
The U.S. military also reported a major airstrike and ground attack Tuesday that killed 19 insurgents sheltered in a house near Baqubah, about 25 miles northeast of the capital. A military statement said the insurgents had fired on a U.S.-Iraqi security patrol with small arms and rocket-propelled grenades, after which U.S. and Iraqi forces attacked the house with bombs, rockets and small arms. Two Iraqi army soldiers were killed and two people, including a U.S. soldier, were injured.
Other Washington Post staff in Iraq contributed to this report.
