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Judge, 3 GIs killed in Iraq

18 die in car bomb attack

AFP, AP, BBC ONLINE, Hilla
Eighteen people were killed and 16 wounded yesterday by a car bomb in the town of Musayyib, south of Baghdad while a prominent Iraqi judge has been assassinated in the southern city of Basra, police and medical sources said.
"Eighteen people were killed, including three policemen, and 16 wounded, three of them also policemen, in the explosion of a car bomb at 8:30 am (0530 GMT)," said the head of the general hospital in the nearby city of Hilla.
Police Lieutenant Mohammed Tamimi said the bomb, near hospital and local council building, was not a suicide attack.
"Most of the victims are people who were heading to the hospital or to the headquarters of the local council," he said.
Musayyib is a mixed Shia-Sunni town some 100km south of Baghdad, on the edge of a violence-wracked area dubbed the "triangle of death".
On Friday, 14 people were killed in a suicide car bomb attack near a Shia mosque in the town of Balad Ruz, northeast of Baghdad, while another seven were killed in an attack on Shia-owned bakeries in the capital.
A prominent Iraqi judge has been assassinated in the southern city of Basra, police say.
Taha al-Amiri, a former chief judge at Basra's highest criminal court, was shot as he drove to work, a police spokesman told the Associated Press.
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The judge's bodyguard was seriously wounded in the attack by two men on a motorcycle, AP reported Lt Col Karim al-Zaidi as saying.
Insurgents in Iraq have frequently targeted Iraqi government officials.
Two US troops were killed in separate vehicle accidents while another soldier was killed Friday in a bomb attack in Baghdad, the US military announced early yesterday.
A marine serving with the Ist Marine Expeditionary Force was killed Friday while on a security operation in Anbar province west of Baghdad, said a military statement.
A soldier assigned to the same force was killed in a "non-hostile vehicle accident" in Babil province to the south of the capital.
"A Task Force Baghdad soldier was killed by an improvised explosive device in western Baghdad," a statement said without elaborating.
Earlier two Iraqi civilians and several insurgents were killed overnight in clashes and attacks across Iraq, the US military said yesterday.
The explosion of a roadside bomb near the northern city of Tall Afar killed two civilians and wounded three, it said in a statement, adding it had killed an insurent in an ensuing operation.