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Iraqi bombings kill dozens, wound more than 200
BAGHDAD – Female suicide bombers attacked crowds in Baghdad and the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk Monday morning as part of a series of four bombings that left at least 46 people dead and more than 200 wounded, security officials said.
The first attacks occurred in Baghdad, as millions of Shiite Muslim pilgrims walked toward the Kadhemiyah shrine a day before one of the holiest Shiite festivals.
A homemade bomb detonated at 7:45 a.m., blasting nails and screws into a crowd of pilgrims who’d stopped to rest near Fardos Square, where Saddam Hussein’s statue was toppled five years ago.
Panicked survivors fled into a narrow side street, where a woman blew herself up five minutes later; a second blew herself up 15 minutes after that, authorities said.
Iraqi leader meets Obama, calls for U.S. troops out by end of 2010
BAGHDAD – After talks with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama Monday, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki reaffirmed that Iraq wants U.S. combat troops to withdraw from Iraq by the end of 2010.
Ali Dabbagh, the prime minister’s spokesman, said al-Maliki and Obama didn’t discuss specifics during the hour-long meeting. But he said the Iraqi government would like to see all American combat troops out of the country by the end of 2010, a bit later than Obama’s proposal to draw down all combat brigades within 16 months after he’d become president.
“Barak Obama showed his support to this government,” Dabbagh said. “He came to listen to our views and the views of the prime minister. And the prime minister gave him his point of view about the presence of U.S. forces and … what we want from the forces.”
“We had a very constructive discussion,” Obama said upon leaving the meeting at the prime minister’s private residence in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone.
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GM details truck output cuts
DETROIT – Monday General Motors Corp. detailed its plan for cutting North American truck production by nearly 300,000 units when it announced that it will eliminate 117,000 units of production from its truck plants by the end of the year.
GM said it will eliminate shifts at two truck plants and institute rolling temporary layoffs at several others this year. When added to 170,000 cuts GM announced in June, Monday’s actions are expected to reduce GM’s total truck production by about 287,000 units and result in the layoff of about 1,760 workers.
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Police investigate two bank robberies
Boise Police believe the same man may have committed two Monday afternoon bank robberies.
A man robbed Washington Federal Bank near the intersection of Broadway and Boise Avenues at about 2:40 p.m. Roughly two hours later, a man matching the first suspect’s description robbed the Wells Fargo at Eagle and McMillan Roads.
In both cases, the man walked up to the teller with a note demanding cash and left with an undisclosed amount.
Boise Police spokeswoman Lynn Hightower said authorities do not plan to release the note’s contents because doing so could jeopardize the investigation. It was not overtly threatening, and the suspect did not display a weapon, she said.
Witnesses described the suspect as 5-feet, 10-inches to 6-feet tall, 180 pounds and in his mid-40s. He has short, dark hair and wore a baseball cap, a light-colored shirt and blue jeans.
What The?
I meant the kids, not me, officer
A woman who passionately urged the Norwalk, Ohio, school board to start drug testing the city’s students was arrested for heroin trafficking.
Excellent reason; you can go
A police officer in Kitsap, Wash., pulled a motorist over for speeding and asked him why he was going so fast. The man said he was headed to court to divorce his wife, “and, if you met her, sir, you would understand why I am hurrying.”
Arbiter Staff