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Attacks In Baghdad Kill 3, Wound 20 People

A spate of overnight and early Monday bombings in Baghdad killed three people, including a police officer and an army soldier, and wounded 20, police officials said.

The strikes came a week before all but 50,000 U.S. troops leave Iraq – a military drawdown that has raised fears the country’s already-shaky security will become even less safe.

Baghdad police said unknown attackers in a speeding car threw the grenade in the mixed Sunni-Shiite neighborhood of New Baghdad in the capital’s east around 6:30 a.m. Monday.

The blast killed one policeman and wounded another, a city police official said. A medic at Baghdad’s Ibn Al-Nafees hospital confirmed the casualties.

Late Sunday, a grenade attack on an Iraqi army checkpoint in Amariyah, a Sunni area in western Baghdad, killed one soldier and injured 2 others around 11 p.m., police and hospital officials said.

Earlier, a liquor store near central Baghdad was targeted by a roadside bomb that wounded two people around 8 p.m. An hour later, another bomb struck a popular cafe in the capital’s southwest. A policeman said that explosion killed one person and wounded 15 people. A medic at the city’s Yarmouk hospital confirmed the casualties.

All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.

This program aired on August 23, 2010. The audio for this program is not available.

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