Car Bomb Blast in Baghdad Kills 10
10 October 2006
Iraqi officials say a car bomb explosion in Baghdad has killed at least 10 people and wounded several others.
Hours before Tuesday's blast, police said they found 60 more bodies in the Baghdad area, all with gunshot wounds and some showing signs of torture.
Officials said that the mutilated bodies likely are those of the latest victims of sectarian death squads in the war-torn Iraqi capital.
South of Baghdad, meanwhile, Iraqi and coalition forces say they killed 11 militants in a clash late Monday near a mosque in Diwaniyah. The same town was the scene of heavy fighting two days earlier, when Iraqi and American troops reported they killed at least 30 Shi'ite militiamen.
Separately, the U.S. military announced the deaths of two American soldiers. One was killed during an attack Monday on his patrol in eastern Baghdad; the other died of wounds suffered in combat Sunday in the northern city of Tikrit.
And, in the genocide trial of Saddam Hussein, the chief judge again expelled the former Iraqi dictator from the court after an altercation today.
It was the fourth time Saddam was ejected from the court in the last five sessions.
More Kurdish witnesses are testifying Tuesday in the case against Saddam and his six-co-defendants accused of killing tens of thousands of Kurdish villagers in a military operation in the 1980s.
The court has appointed lawyers to conduct the defense for the accused because Saddam's entire legal defense team is boycotting the trial, alleging Iraqi government interference.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government has appointed a new chief judge in the trial, replacing another jurist who had been seen as soft on Saddam.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.
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