Baghdad Car Bomb Wounds 5 Us Soldiers

Juan Cole 12/01/2004

Baghdad: Car Bomb Wounds 5 US Soldiers
Baiji: Car Bomb Kills 7, Wounds 18

Guerrillas in Baghdad detonated a car bomb near a US convoy on the road to the airport, wounding 5 American soldiers.

Guerrillas in the town of Baiji north of Baghdad detonated a car bomb in a crowded market, killing 7 persons and wounding nearly 20. Elsewhere in Baiji, a guerrilla fired a rocket propelled grenade at a US tank, wounding a soldier and damaging the tank.

On Monday, near Ramadi, a suicide car bomber targeted Iraqi policemen who had gathered to collect their paychecks at a police station, Monday, a suicide car bomber plowed into policemen waiting to collect their salaries at a police station. The attacker killed 12 persons and wounded at least 10.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page