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Iraq Hit With Multiple Blasts

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The Associated Press

Published: November 10, 2008

BAGHDAD - Bombs killed at least eight people Sunday across Iraq and wounded dozens of others, officials said. Syria's president blamed the U.S. military presence for Iraq's instability and called on U.S. troops to leave.

In the northern city of Mosul, a roadside bomb ripped through an Iraqi army patrol soon after sundown, killing three soldiers and wounding four others, police said.

To the south, a bomb exploded outside a cafe in Khalis, killing at least two people and wounding 13, including the city mayor, police said.

The cafe is in a market area and the precise target was unclear. Khalis is a mostly Shiite town surrounded by Sunni communities and was a hotbed of Sunni-Shiite fighting in 2006 and 2007.

In Anbar province, a female suicide bomber blew herself up at a hospital in Amiriyat al-Fallujah, a suburb of Fallujah.
Talib al-Hassnawi, a member in Fallujah municipal council, said three people were killed and five were wounded.

Police said the dead included two women and a 10-year-old girl.

A car bomb was found Sunday behind the governor's office in the northern oil city of Kirkuk. Police became suspicious and summoned U.S. troops who cleared the area and detonated the vehicle without casualties, police Col. Taha Salahuddin said.
Four men were arrested, he said.

In Baghdad, six people, including three policemen, were wounded by a roadside bomb, the U.S. military said.

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