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Slew of bombs kills more than 30 in Iraq
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BAGHDAD (AP) — A car bomb Monday killed four people — including a CBS News cameraman and sound man and a U.S. soldier — and seriously injured a correspondent for the network in one of a series of bombings that left at least 33 people dead.
It was the worst wave of violence to hit Baghdad in days.
CBS said that veteran cameraman Paul Douglas, 48, and soundman James Brolan, 42, were killed, while correspondent Kimberly Dozier, 39, was seriously injured. They were reporting on patrol with the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, when their convoy came under attack, the network said.
The U.S. military also said a U.S. soldier and an Iraqi contractor were killed, and six U.S. soldiers were injured when the car bomb struck the patrol. There were conflicting reports about whether the car was moving or parked when it exploded.
Police said the attack occurred just before noon in Tahariyat Square, a mixed area in south-central Baghdad. The blast collapsed the front end of their armored Humvee.
According to CBS, the journalists were reporting from outside their Humvee and were believed to have been wearing protective gear.
The unidentified soldier's death, which came as the nation marked Memorial Day, brought to 2,467 the number of U.S. military members who have died since the beginning of the war in 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
In a speech at Arlington National Cemetery, Bush said, "We have seen the costs in the war on terror that we fight today."
"I am in awe of the men and women who sacrifice for the freedom of the United States of America," Bush said.
CBS said Dozier sustained serious injuries in the attack and underwent surgery at a U.S. military hospital in Baghdad, where she is in critical condition, although doctors are cautiously optimistic about her prognosis.
Dozens of journalists have been injured, killed or kidnapped in Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
Before Monday's attack, the Committee to Protect Journalists had put the number at 69. Of those, nearly three-quarters were Iraqis, the New York-based group said.
Among the most visible was ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff who was injured with cameraman Doug Vogt when they were hit by shrapnel on Jan. 29. David Bloom of NBC News, died from an apparent blood clot while traveling south of Baghdad on April 6, 2003.
Iraq's parliament debated the deteriorating security situation in Baghdad and some outlying provinces, but failed to set up a commission to deal with the problem because of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's inability to appoint ministers of Defense and Interior.
"The deteriorating security situation is due to the fact that the interior and defense ministries are still unfilled posts," Shiite legislator Baha al-Araji said.
The explosions began just after dawn, with a roadside bomb killing 10 people and injuring another 12 who worked for an Iranian organization opposed to the Iranian regime, police said. That bombing targeted a public bus near Khalis, 50 miles north of Baghdad in Diyala province, an area notorious for such attacks, provincial police said.
All the dead were workers at the Ashraf base of the Mujahedeen Khalq, or MEK, which opposes Iran's regime. The group, made up of Iranian dissidents living in Iraq, said the dead were Iraqi workers heading to their camp. The group also alleged Iran was behind the attack.
The blast pushed in the side of the white bus and peppered its blackened side with shrapnel. The bus, later inspected by U.S. troops, was streaked in blood, AP Television News video showed.
"We were transporting the workers from Baqouba to the Mujahedeen Khalq when the roadside bomb exploded and killed all these people," one man who was on the bus told AP Television News.
A car bomb parked near Baghdad's main Sunni Abu Hanifa mosque killed at least nine civilians and wounded 25, said Saif al-Janabi, director of Noaman hospital.
A bomb in a parked minivan killed at least seven and injured 20 when it exploded at the entrance to an open-air market selling secondhand clothes in the northern Baghdad suburb of Kazimiyah.
Another parked car bomb exploded near Ibin al-Haitham college in Azamiyah, also in northern Baghdad, killing two civilians and wounding five others — including four Iraqi soldiers, police Lt. Col. Falah al-Mohammedawi said.
A second bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol near Tahariyat square killed one and wounded 10 — including four police.
In other attacks, a roadside bomb killed two police officer and wounded three others in downtown Baghdad's Karradah district, while one man was killed and six were injured when a bomb hidden in a minivan exploded.
Gunmen killed two police officers when they attacked a convoy in western Baghdad. Another group killed two police officers, identified as former Baathists, in Amarah, 180 miles southeast of Baghdad.
U.S. officials hope Iraqis will be able to take on more security duties soon, allowing American forces to begin pulling out. But a week after al-Maliki's unity government took office, Iraq's ethnic, sectarian and secular parties are struggling to agree on who should run the crucial Interior and Defense ministries, which control the various security forces.
The continued impasse dashed hopes that al-Maliki, a member of Iraq's Shiite majority, could swear in the two new ministers when the 275-member parliament convened Sunday after a four-day recess.
If talks take much longer, al-Maliki would ask the political blocs to present three names for each ministry so he could decide, said his spokesman, Yassin Majid.
"There is no deadline for that, but it could happen this week," Majid said.
Hassan al-Sineid, a Shiite legislator who belongs to al-Maliki's Dawa Party, said that step might come by Wednesday.
The Shiite-dominated Interior Ministry, which controls the police, has been promised to that community. Sunni Arabs are to get the Defense Ministry, overseeing the army.
It is hoped the balance will enable al-Maliki to move ahead with a plan for Iraqis to take over all security duties in the next 18 months. He wants to try to attract army recruits from among the Sunni Arab minority, which provides the core of the insurgency.