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05-15-2006, 12:23 AM
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Bloodstained bus hit by blast
Suicide bombers have killed dozens of people in Baghdad, including two US soldiers who were targeted by a roadside bomb.
The weekend attacks, including six against small Shiite shrines, have left nearly 40 people dead.
The two US soldiers were killed in east Baghdad by a roadside bomb, according to the US command.
The military said the two soldiers, who have not been named, were killed after dark.
Their deaths raise the toll of the number of US military killed since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003 to 2,439.
In Baghdad five roadside devices and two suicide car bombs were set off one after another in the capital.
The two suicide bombers in cars killed 14 Iraqis at the entrance to Baghdad airport.
The attacks add to pressure on Iraq's rival leaders to agree on the formation of a unity government.
With a week left for Prime Minister-designate Nuri al-Maliki to meet a constitutional deadline to present a broad-based coalition Washington hopes will avert a slide towards civil war, a series of blasts hit Baghdad.
US and Iraqi officials have said the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, is stepping up a campaign to target majority Shi'ites in and around Baghdad.
They say it is an attempt to provoke retaliatory attacks against minority Sunnis, dominant under Saddam Hussein, and ignite all-out sectarian warfare.
SkyNews
Bloodstained bus hit by blast
Suicide bombers have killed dozens of people in Baghdad, including two US soldiers who were targeted by a roadside bomb.
The weekend attacks, including six against small Shiite shrines, have left nearly 40 people dead.
The two US soldiers were killed in east Baghdad by a roadside bomb, according to the US command.
The military said the two soldiers, who have not been named, were killed after dark.
Their deaths raise the toll of the number of US military killed since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003 to 2,439.
In Baghdad five roadside devices and two suicide car bombs were set off one after another in the capital.
The two suicide bombers in cars killed 14 Iraqis at the entrance to Baghdad airport.
The attacks add to pressure on Iraq's rival leaders to agree on the formation of a unity government.
With a week left for Prime Minister-designate Nuri al-Maliki to meet a constitutional deadline to present a broad-based coalition Washington hopes will avert a slide towards civil war, a series of blasts hit Baghdad.
US and Iraqi officials have said the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, is stepping up a campaign to target majority Shi'ites in and around Baghdad.
They say it is an attempt to provoke retaliatory attacks against minority Sunnis, dominant under Saddam Hussein, and ignite all-out sectarian warfare.
SkyNews