Car bombs kill 24 in Baghdad

A destroyed vehicle lies on its side after a car bomb attack in Baghdad yesterday. The car bomb targeting a fuel station in the religiously mixed neighbourhood of Saidiya in southern Baghdad killed 10 people and wounded 62 while another car bomb...

A destroyed vehicle lies on its side after a car bomb attack in Baghdad yesterday. The car bomb targeting a fuel station in the religiously mixed neighbourhood of Saidiya in southern Baghdad killed 10 people and wounded 62 while another car bomb exploded near a children's hospital in Andalus Square in central Baghdad, killing six and wounding nine. Altogether three car bombs killed 24 people and wounded scores in Baghdad yesterday as war-weary residents awaited the start of a sweeping US-Iraqi crackdown on sectarian violence in the city. In Washington, US President George W. Bush asked a Democrat-run Congress to approve new military spending of $700 billion - much of it for the Iraq war - as he unveiled a $2.9 trillion budget request for fiscal 2008. He warned that even more spending for Iraq could be needed.

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