On the Front - Deadly Blasts Target Pro-U.S. Iraqi Leaders

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BAGHDAD - Two insurgent bomb blasts struck Thursday at pro- American Iraqi targets in Anbar Province just west of Baghdad and in the northern city of Mosul. The police said at least 32 Iraqis were killed and 80 were wounded.

A U.S. military spokesman and Iraqi police officials said three U.S. Marines and two translators were also among the dead in the Anbar attack, which came just as the U.S. military command was preparing to hand control of the province, once the hotbed of the insurgency, to Iraqi forces.

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On the Front - Deadly Blasts Target Pro-U.S. Iraqi Leaders

The bombings extended a pattern of multiple-casualty attacks in recent days that are clearly intended to kill local Iraqi leaders, in particular those who are believed to have collaborated with...

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