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Baghdad Car Bomb Kills At Least 47 in Second Deadly Attack

A suicide attacker detonated a car packed with explosives in a crowd of Iraqis outside a Baghdad army recruiting center Wednesday, killing at least 47 people in the second bombing in two days targeting Iraqis working with U.S. occupation forces.

Car Bomb Explodes South of Baghdad Killing Dozens

A car bomb killed dozens of people when it exploded Tuesday morning at a police station south of Baghdad where people were lined up to apply for jobs.

Report From Baghdad

American efforts to train additional Iraqi police officers were jarred by a fatal bombing at a police station 30 miles south of Baghdad today. Gwen Ifill gets additional information on the bombing from New York Times correspondent Jeffrey Gettleman in…

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Pres. Bush Forms Bipartisan Iraq Intelligence Review Panel

By Admin, PBS News Hour

Bowing to pressure from Democratic and Republican lawmakers, President Bush on Friday named seven people to sit on a bipartisan independent commission to investigate U.S. intelligence failures in prewar Iraq.

U.N. Team to Evaluate Prospect of Early Elections in Iraq

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Tuesday he would send a team to Iraq to determine if elections could be held before the June 30 transfer of authority to a provisional government.

Death Toll From Weekend Suicide Bombings in Iraq Reaches 101

The death toll from two suicide bombings that targeted the largest Kurdish political parties in Iraq over the weekend rose from 67 to 101, U.S. officials said Tuesday.

President to Create Commission on Prewar U.S. Intelligence

President Bush announced Monday that he would establish an independent bipartisan commission to examine American intelligence operations, including possible errors in prewar assessments of Iraqi weapons programs.

Suicide Bombings Kill 67 in Northern Iraq

Two suicide bombers Sunday set off explosives inside buildings housing Iraq's two leading Kurdish political parties, killing at least 67 people and wounded 247, in a once relatively quiet part of northern Iraq.

Critical Hutton Report Prompts Two BBC Resignations

The head of the British Broadcasting Corp. and its director-general resigned Thursday after an official inquiry censured the media corporation's "defective" editorial management.

Six U.S. Soldiers, Two CNN Staffers Killed in Iraq

A bloody series of attacks in central Iraq Tuesday left six American soldiers, two CNN employees and at least two Iraqi civilians dead even as U.S. military operations continued against anti-coalition insurgents.