Three car bombs exploded in Baghdad on Monday, killing at least eight people and compounding an onslaught of guerrilla violence that has rattled Iraq since it formed a democratically elected government five days ago. The blasts targetted an Interior Ministry official, policemen and a busy shopping district, police said, putting pressure on a new cabinet that has promised to end the bloodshed.The first bomb exploded in Huriya district of northwest Baghdad as a small convoy of vehicles carrying Major General Fuleih Rasheed, the head of a police commando unit linked to the Interior Ministry, was passing. Rasheed and three of his bodyguards were wounded, police said. None of the injuries were believed to be life-threatening.The second car bomb exploded in Karrada, a busy neighbourhood in the South of the Capital. Police said at least six passers-by were killed and 12 wounded by the bomb, which devastated a row of shops and set a five-storey apartment building on fire.A third blast hit the Zayouna district of Baghdad, killing two policemen and wounding 10 people. A British soldier was also killed in combat on Monday, Britain’s Ministry of Defence said.US guard pleads guilty in Abu Ghraib abuse caseFORT HOOD: US Army reservist Lynndie England (22), pictured holding a naked Iraqi on a leash in an act of humiliation in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, pleaded guilty to seven charges of abuse on Monday. Pfc. England, who appeared in photographs that touched off an international furore at a time when the US was under pressure over the 2003 Iraq invasion, said she had visited the prison to see Sgt. Charles Graner, with whom she was involved sexually. — Reuters
