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This is an archive article published on March 21, 2006

More deaths mark third anniversary of Iraq war

Suspected insurgents marked the third anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq on Monday with roadside bombings that killed at least seven policemen

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Suspected insurgents marked the third anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq on Monday with roadside bombings that killed at least seven policemen, and authorities reported finding 10 more bullet-riddled bodies dumped in the capital, one of them a 13-year-old girl. The violence took up where it left off on Sunday when at least 35 people died.

One of the roadside bombings on Monday, just a few hundred yards from an Interior Ministry lockup in central Baghdad, killed at least three Iraqi police commandos and a prisoner, police Lt Col Falah al-Mohammedawi said. Four commandos were injured in the attack.

A second roadside bomb in a farming area in the so-called Triangle of Death south of Baghdad killed four policemen, police Capt. Muthana Khalid Ali reported from the area. The 10 dumped bodies, executed, were the latest gruesome discoveries tied to the underground sectarian war being conducted by Shi’ite and Sunni Muslims as they settle scores in the capital.

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