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Show _ Friday SepL2,J006: t h e Utah Statesman WIMMER'S ULTIMATE BICYCLES Barrage of bomb, rocket attacks kills 47, wounds more than 200 take control over. • BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A barrage of "This makes us optimistic and proud • coordinated bomb and rocket attacks on because we managed to fulfill our promise," ^eastern Baghdad neighborhoods killed at al-Maliki said. Iraqi authorities took over ileast 47 people and wounded more than Muthanna province in the south from the 1200 within half an hour on Thursday, British in July. i police and hospital officials said. Dhi Qar is populated mainly by Shiite The latest spasm of violence - which ! included explosives planted in apartments, Muslims. Compared to more volatile areas, such as Anbar province in the west and ^car bombs and several rocket and mortar Baghdad, it has been spared much of the attacks on mainly Shiite neighborhoods in sectarian violence. However, U.S. comI the capital - came even as Prime Minister manders recently expressed concern about Nouri al-Maliki said Iraqi forces should the growing influence of Shiite militias in have control over most of the country by the area, many of whom they say receive .year's end. support from Iran. The Baghdad bombings - centered on "This year will witness the handing over • neighborhoods controlled by Shiite miliof other provinces, and we hope that by the , tias, some of which Sunni Arabs accuse of end of the year, our security forces will take running death squads - brought the day's over most of the Iraqi provinces," al-Maliki . death toll across the country to at least 68. said. Attackers rented apartments and shops The Defense Ministry said it would sign in buildings a few days ago and planted a memorandum with coalition forces on explosives in them, detonating them by Saturday "about strategic control and oper-remote control almost simultaneously ations." U.S. authorities said the Defense Thursday evening, said Maj. Gen. Jihad Ministry would begin assuming direct Liaabi, director of the Interior Ministry's operational control of the country's armed counterterrorism unit. forces. One of the targeted buildings was a Handing over territory from coalition medical center housing doctors' offices in control to Iraqi control is a key part of any • al-Hamza Square on the outskirts of the eventual drawdown of U.S. troops in the Sadr City slum in east Baghdad, he told country. state television. On Wednesday, the top U.S. commander The attacks occurred between 6 p.m. in Iraq, Gen. George Casey, said Iraqi and 6:30 p.m. and included a car bomb troops were on course to take over security rat a market, another behind a telephone control from U.S.-led coalition forces over exchange building and several rocket and the next 12-18 months with little coalition I mortar attacks, police said. help. Police and witnesses said bodies, many President Bush insisted American troops • of them charred, had still not been recovmust remain in Iraq until the country's i ered from the buildings and the death toll forces are capable of full control. could rise. "If America were to pull out before Iraq Earlier in the day, a suicide car bomber could defend itself, the consequences would killed two people at a gas station, while a i British Embassy convoy was targeted in the be absolutely predictable, and absolutely i upscale Mansour neighborhood in western disastrous," Bush said as he began a prej Baghdad. Two passers-by were wounded in election series of speeches in the United States. «the convoy attack, police said. The bloodshed was part of a violent week "We would be handing Iraq over to our worst enemies - Saddam's former hench;that has left hundreds of Iraqis dead. men, armed groups with ties to Iran and i The U.S. military also announced that al-Q.aida terrorists from all over the world two American soldiers and a Marine who would suddenly have a base of operawere killed Wednesday. According to an tions far more valuable than Afghanistan Associated Press count, that death brings under the Taliban," he said. to 18 the number of U.S. soldiers killed since Sunday. Despite the rash of violence over the past But authorities said they were optimistic week, U.S. officials have lauded the results ,about the handover of security control. Al-Maliki said Iraqi forces will assume responsibility for Dhi Qar province in the , south in September, making it the second of >• BAGHDAD (Iraq's 18 provinces that local forces would see page 7 8 745 N. MAIN, LOGAN, UT 435-752-2326 JAMIS MOUNTAIN BIKE SALE! 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