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11 Iraqis, 2 GIs killed in attacks

AFP, REUTERS, KIRKUK/ Baghdad
Violence in Iraq killed two US soldiers and 11 Iraqis in a spate of insurgent attacks in the troubled north yesterday, police and the US army said.
A US soldier was killed in a roadside bomb blast north of Baghdad yesterday, the military said in a statement.
The incident occurred near the town of Tuz Khurmatu, 112 miles north of Baghdad. No other soldiers were involved in the attack. Tuz
Khurmatu, not far from the frontier with Iraqi Kurdistan, has rarely been the site of insurgent attacks.
Another US marine died in a road accident Tuesday in the western Sunni Province of Al-Anbar, the US military announced yesterday.
"One marine assigned to I Marine Expeditionary Force was killed in a non-hostile motor vehicle accident yesterday, while conducting security and stability operations in the Al Anbar Province," a statement said.
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Another Iraqi, a Shia politician, was killed late Tuesday, police said.
In the key northern oil city of Kirkuk, a police officer was killed and another wounded when an unknown person opened fire on them in a restaurant at breakfast time, said a police spokesman.
Salman Abderahman was hit by nine bullets and his colleague was slightly wounded, he said, adding that two suspects had been arrested.
Two Iraqi civilians were killed and another seriously wounded when a rocket-propelled grenade hit the car they were travelling in near Kirkuk, police said.
Also in Kirkuk, two civilians were injured in a car bomb attack on a US convoy in an industrial area, the city's police chief said. The US army had no immediate comment on the attack.
In the same city's eastern Wahda district, two Kurdish civilians were shot dead at their home by unknown attackers, police said.
An Iraqi soldier was killed and another wounded in a mortar attack on their base early Wednesday near Dhuluiya, 75km north of Baghdad, police said.
Another mortar strike on an Iraqi base near Tarmiya, north of Baghdad, killed two soldiers, said an army officer.
An Iraqi subcontractor working on an Iraqi base was killed and another
wounded in an attack on their car near Suleyman Beg, 200km north of Baghdad, the wounded man told AFP.
Also Wednesday, police said an official from the Shia Dawa party, whose leader Ibrahim Jaafari has been nominated to become Iraq's next prime minister, was killed.
"Khalil Ali Shuker, a local representative from Dawa, was killed Tuesday around 7:30 pm by a group of three men in the centre of Moqdadiyah," around 100 kilometres (60 miles) from Baghdad, a police officer said.