Gi Is Among 8 Killed in Convoy, Office Attacks ; No Evidence to Tie Missing Explosives to Recent Attacks

The Record, Bergen County, NJ › October 27, 2004

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Bombings struck four coalition and Iraqi military convoys and a provincial government office Monday, killing at least eight people, including an American soldier and an Estonian trooper in the Baghdad area.

Coming a day after the bodies of nearly 50 Iraqi military recruits were found massacred, the bombings occurred as a U.N. agency confirmed that several hundred tons of explosives were missing from a former Iraqi military depot in an insurgent hotspot south of Baghdad.

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Gi Is Among 8 Killed in Convoy, Office Attacks ; No Evidence to Tie Missing Explosives to Recent Attacks

The revelation raised concerns the explosives fell into the hands of insurgents who have staged a spate of bloody c...

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