45 Iraqis Killed on July 18, 2007, Including 24 Executed by Death Squads, 3 US Soldiers Killed Yesterday, According to an Initial Report

The Iraq News Agency (INA) reported the following news on July 18, 2007.

- Three US soldiers were killed yesterday, increasing US death toll to 3,620.

- The university professor, Firas Abdul Zahrah, was assassinated today inside his home. Since 2003, 185 university professors were assassinted and 142 were arrested.

- 9 US-led Beshmerga Kurdish soldiers were killed, 18 were injured by a suicide bomb explosion in Mosul.

- 6 people were killed, 5 were injured by roadside bombs in a southeast of Baghdad area.

- 24 bodies of Iraqis executed by death squads were found in Baghdad today.

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AP Headline: U.S. Military: Top al-Qaida in Iraq Figure Seized, Said Bin Laden Inner Circle Wields Control

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press Writer

Jul 18, 2007, 11:25 AM EDT

BAGHDAD (AP) --

In the latest violence, a series of roadside bombs exploded early Wednesday in separate areas of east Baghdad, killing 11 people and wounding more than a dozen, police said. The U.S. military reported three more American soldiers had died in action in the Iraqi capital.

The first of Wednesday's roadside blasts occurred about 7:30 a.m. near the Dhubat neighborhood, killing four civilians and wounding seven others, police said.

Two more blasts occurred two minutes apart in another area of eastern Baghdad, killing seven people and wounding seven, police said. The dead included two traffic policemen and five civilians, police said.

The three American soldiers were killed Tuesday in separate bombings in the capital, the U.S. command said.

Two were killed in west Baghdad and another died in an east Baghdad bombing, the military said. Four other Americans were wounded in the east Baghdad blast, the command said. Two insurgents responsible for the attack were identified, engaged and killed, the statement added.

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