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BAGHDAD, July 29 (UPI) -- Insurgent attacks on military posts and police stations in and around Baghdad Thursday killed 21 people and wounded scores more.
A suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden truck into an Iraqi army base in al-Sherqat north of Baghdad Thursday, killing three soldiers and injuring eight people, CNN reported.
Hours later, two blasts from parked car bombs were reported in Fallujah, killing two soldiers and wounding 10 others.
Shootings and at least five bombings in the northeast Baghdad neighborhood of Adhamiya killed 16 people, including six soldiers and three policemen, with an additional 14 people sustaining injuries. Gunmen in Adhamiya raised the black flag of al-Qaida in Mesopotamia, a high-ranking Iraqi army officer told The New York Times.
At a time when the United States is beginning to draw down forces from Iraq, the brazen attacks show the insurgency is "still very much capable of terrorizing the Iraqi population on a nearly daily basis," the Times said.
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