Insurgents Ambush Iraqi Patrol ; Suicide Bombers, Armed Robbers Kill 18 in Baghdad

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al- Sadr ambushed an Iraqi patrol in an eastern Baghdad slum Sunday, and U.S. forces joined the 90-minute battle, killing as many as eight attackers in the first significant violence in the neighborhood in nearly a year.

Elsewhere in Baghdad, armed men pulled off a daring armored car robbery, killing two guards and escaping with $850,000, and a suicide car bomber slammed into a convoy carrying Interior Ministry commandos, killing seven of them and two civilians.

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Insurgents Ambush Iraqi Patrol ; Suicide Bombers, Armed Robbers Kill 18 in Baghdad

South of the capital, two separate bicycle bombings in town markets killed at least seven pe...

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