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Car bomb in N. Iraq kills 18, wounds 25 -police

Fri Aug 8, 2008 12:51pm EDT
MOSUL, Iraq, Aug 8 (Reuters) - A car bomb in a vegetable market in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar killed 18 people and wounded 25 on Friday, police said.

The town, 420 km (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad, is near the city of Mosul, where U.S.-backed Iraqi troops have cracked down on al Qaeda Sunni Arab militants in recent months.


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