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Car bomb carnage kills 47 in Baghdad

12 others, GI die in Mosul attack

AGENCIES, Baghdad
A car bomb exploded near a police station in Baghdad early yesterday as dozens of Iraqis were applying to join the force, killing at least 47 people and wounding 114, officials said.
In Baqouba, gunmen opened fire on a van carrying policemen home from work, killing 11 officers and a civilian.
Gunmen killed one US soldier and wounded five others in the
northern city of Mosul yesterday, the US military said.
Their patrol came under small arms fire as it was travellling on the western side of Mosul, the military said in a statement.
The attacks were the latest attempts by insurgents to disrupt US-backed efforts to build a strong Iraqi police force capable of taking over security in many towns and cities ahead of nationwide elections slated for January.
In Baghdad, the blast left a
gaping 10-foot crater outside the station at the end of Haifa street, a main Baghdad thoroughfare that has been the scene recently of fierce clashes. Dozens of cars parked nearby were destroyed and shops and buildings were badly damaged.
Paramedics and residents picked up body parts scattered across the street and put them into boxes. Anguished men lifted charred bodies andlay them gently on stretchers.
Health Ministry spokesman Saad Al-Amili said at least 47 people were killed and 114 wounded.
An Interior Ministry official said on condition of anonymity that a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed sedan next to a cafe by the police station where many would-be recruits had gone to escape the summer heat.
Angry crowds near the site of the blast denounced US forces and interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's government for failing to protect police recruiting centers.
In the eastern city of Baqouba, gunmen in two cars opened fire Tuesday on a van carrying policemen home from work, killing 11 officers and a civilian, police and hospital officials said.
The incident occurred when the policemen were returning to their station after they were told that a trip to a training camp has been postponed, said a police officer on condition of anonymity. Eleven policemen were killed as well as the civilian driver, said Qaisar Hamid of Baqouba General Hospital.
Attacks on Iraqi security forces and police officers consider to be collaborators by militants have left hundreds of people dead since insurgents
began a 17-month campaign to expel US-led forces and destabilize Allawi's government.
Earlier this month, a suicide attacker detonated a car bomb outside a police academyin the northern city of Kirkuk as hundreds of trainees and civilians wereleaving for the day, killing atleast 20 people and wounding 36.
Meanwhile, saboteurs blew up a junction where multiple oil pipelines cross the Tigris River in northern Iraq yesterday, sending plumes of smoke leapinginto the sky, officials said.
Firefighters struggled to put out the blaze after the attack near Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad. US military officials surveying the blast estimated it could take up to three days to put out the fire.
Crude oil cascaded down the hillside into the river. Fire burned atop the water, fueled by the gushing oil. Beiji is the point where several oil pipelines converge, said Lt. Col. Lee Morrison of the US Army Corps of Engineers.
Also Tuesday, the military said two American soldiers were killed and three others wounded when they came under attack Monday from an improvised explosive device and small arms firein Baghdad.
(AP, AFP)