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Marine, 13 Iraqis killed in attacks
Associated Press
Published October 10, 2005
BAGHDAD - Attacks by insurgents killed 13 Iraqis and a U.S. Marine on Sunday.
In one attack, masked gunmen in police commando uniforms burst into a school in the northern town of Samarra, pulled a Shiite teacher out of his classroom and shot him dead in the hallway as students watched from their desks, police said. A suicide car bomb killed a woman and a child in the southern city of Basra.
The U.S. Marine was killed by a roadside bomb in the town of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, on Saturday, the military announced.
It was the ninth American death during a series of offensives waged in western Iraq seeking to knock al-Qaida militants and other insurgents off balance and prevent attacks during Saturday's national vote on the constitution.
The death brought to 1,953 the number of U.S. military personnel who have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
SADDAM'S TRIAL DATE FIRM: Saddam Hussein's lawyer asked that the start of the ousted leader's trial be delayed and challenged the court's competence, but officials dismissed the request and said Sunday that the Oct. 19 starting date is firm. Saddam and seven members of his toppled regime are due to stand trial before the Special Iraqi Tribunal on charges they ordered the 1982 massacre of 143 people in Dujail, a mainly Shiite town north of Baghdad, after a failed assassination attempt against the ousted leader.
Four Britons wounded in Afghanistan bombing
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A suspected Taliban suicide attacker rammed a car laden with explosives into an armored vehicle carrying British government officials Sunday in southern Afghanistan, wounding four of them, a U.S.-led coalition commander said.
The assault, coming three weeks after landmark legislative elections, underscored the terrorist threat still facing Afghanistan. It also added to fears that insurgents here are copying tactics used in Iraq.
Kandahar Gov. Asadullah Khalid said the four were customs officials from London touring the region ahead of the launch of a British government-sponsored project. Two of the officials were in serious condition, while the other two were lightly wounded, Khalid said.
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