42 Iraqis, 3 US Soldiers Killed, According to Initial July 23, 2007 Reports

The Iraq News Agency (INA) reported the death of Iraqis and 3 US soldiers on July 23, 2007.

- 10 were killed, 28 were injured in Karradah 3 car bombings.

- Ahmed Sa'adi, commander of Bayah police was found dead. He was abducted yesterday.

- 36,000 Iraqis are prisoners in US prisons in Iraq.

- 5 tribal sheiks were killed in an explosion north of Baghdad.

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The US Associated Press news agency reported the death of 42 Iraqis today and three US soldiers yesterday and the day before.

AP Headline: Car Bombs in Iraqi Capital Kill 12

By SINAN SALAHEDDIN Associated Press Writer

Jul 23, 2007, 11:38 AM EDT

BAGHDAD (AP) --

Three parked cars exploded within 30 minutes Monday in Baghdad, killing at least 12 people, police said, in the deadliest in a series of bombings and shooting attacks nationwide.

The U.S. military also reported the deaths of three American soldiers this weekend in separate roadside bombings. Two were killed Saturday in attacks in Baghdad and the northern city of Samarra, while the third died of wounds sustained in a blast south of Baghdad on Sunday. At least 3,635 members of the U.S. military who have died since the war began in 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Two of the blasts in the Baghdad neighborhood of Karradah struck nearly simultaneously.

One targeted a passing police patrol, killing three officers and three pedestrians and wounding nine other people, a police officer said, adding that at least seven cars also were damaged in the blast, which struck near to the Interior Ministry's nationality and social affairs directorate and the 14th of July bridge, he added.

Another parked car bomb about 500 yards away struck at about the same time, ripping through a bustling market selling vegetables and household goods, killing three civilians and wounding five others, the policeman added.

AP Television News video showed U.S. soldiers milling about the charred wreckage, with shattered glass and blackened debris from nearby shops and street stalls strewn on the bloodstained pavement.

Another car packed with explosives struck a police patrol in Elwiyah square at about 11:30 a.m. in another part of Karradah, killing two policemen and a civilian and wounding five people, police said.

Another car packed with explosives blew up on the main road about 200 yards from an entry point to the U.S.-controlled Green Zone, killing at least four Iraqis and wounding seven, a police officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of security concerns. The heavily fortified Green Zone is home to the U.S. and British embassies as well as Iraqi government offices and thousands of American troops and contractors.

Elsewhere in the capital, a bomb exploded on a minibus near a busy commercial area, killing one person and wounding nine others, police said.

A roadside bomb struck an Iraqi army patrol about 75 miles east of Baghdad, near the Iranian border, killing five troops, according to police and morgue officials. The explosion occurred on the southeastern edge of the volatile Diyala province.

Also near the Iranian border, gunmen ambushed a convoy of trucks loaded with goods being sent from major wholesale markets in Baghdad to Khanaqin, 90 miles northeast of Baghdad. Five people were killed and three others kidnapped, including drivers and guards, police said.

In western Anbar province, security officials said at least two policemen were killed and 10 wounded when a woman hiding an explosives belt under her Islamic gown blew herself up as she was about to be searched at a checkpoint on the western outskirts of Ramadi. Although suicide bombings regularly claim scores of victims in Iraq's sectarian violence, female bombers remain relatively rare.

In all, at least 42 people killed nationwide Monday, according to security officials who asked not to be identified because they feared retribution.

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Associated Press writer Bushra Juhi in Baghdad contributed to this report.

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