Schoolgirls Slaughtered, Shiites Executed In Separate Iraq Attacks

Schoolgirls Slaughtered, Shiites Executed In Separate Iraq Attacks
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A truck bomber carrying food supplies killed eight Iraqi schoolgirls and a baby in the northern oil city of Kirkuk on Monday as suspected Sunni militants executed 21 Shiite workers north of Baghdad.

The attacks were the latest evidence of stepped up sectarian and insurgent killings outside Baghdad where a massive US-Iraqi security crackdown, now into a seventh week, has seen American officials boast about signs of progress.

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