At Least 23 Murdered In Ambush Near Baghdad...

Associated Press ROBERT H. REID July 31, 2006 at 03:49 PM
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Gunmen dressed in military fatigues burst into the offices of the Iraqi-American Chamber of Commerce and a nearby mobile phone company Monday, seizing 29 people in a daylight raid in a mostly Shiite area of the capital.

Also Monday, at least 27 people were killed or found dead in political or sectarian violence across the country, police said. They included four Iraqi soldiers killed in a suicide bombing in northernIraq, the first such attack in the Kurdish-ruled province of Dahuk.

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