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Bombings kill 23 in Iraq

REUTERS, Baghdad
Guerrilla bombings targeting US and Iraqi forces killed at least four people yesterday as insurgents appeared to rebound after a lull in violence.
A roadside bomb near the northern city of Samarra killed two Iraqi soldiers, an army source said.
A car bomb intended for a US convoy passing through Baghdad's upscale Mansour neighborhood killed at least one person and wounded five, police and witnesses said.
Across town a few minutes later, a bomb targeting Iraqi National Guard troops killed one civilian and wounded three others, police said.
They were small-scale attacks by Iraqi standards, but appeared to mark a new surge in the violence that has been so common over the past two years and which seemed to have subsided since January elections.
Bombings Thursday killed about 19 people in the capital and a southern city.
The bloodshed increased pressure on Iraqi leaders, who have been squabbling over the formation of a new government during a lull in attacks since the Jan. 30 polls.
Iraq has appointed a president and prime minister but key interior, oil and defence ministers have yet to be chosen.
Some Iraqis worry that insurgents could exploit the political vacuum and step up attacks on leaders perceived as weak and indecisive if the bickering keeps dragging on.
The scene in Mansour was typical of the violence that Iraqi leaders had hoped would diminish after millions of people defied suicide bombers and voted in the national assembly elections.
Bodies lay in the street and several cars were burned. A witness said smoke and flames rose near a restaurant following the blast.
The US military said it had no immediate information on the attacks.
US commanders say the number of insurgent attacks has dropped by about a fifth since the election, but the scale and sophistication of militants' operations seems to have increased.
Twin bomb attacks in Baghdad killed at least 15 people on Thursday and four people were killed in a bombing in Hilla, about 100km south of the capital.