Reply #5: also at ABC online [View All]

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/wireStory?id=1442845&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312


A police vehicle, center, sits amidst other destroyed cars at the site of a car bomb explosion in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday Dec. 26, 2005. Insurgents killed at least 10 people in attacks around Iraq on Monday, including five police officers killed at a checkpoint. Attackers exploded five car bombs around Baghdad but caused relatively few casualties. (AP Photo/Khalid |Mohammed)

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Gunmen in Baghdad killed a civilian who was driving his two children to school, a hospital official said. A professor was shot and killed by insurgents in western Baghdad, police said.

Bloodshed claimed at least 18 lives across Iraq on Sunday, including two U.S. and five Iraqi soldiers killed by bombings in Baghdad. The attacks are part of an increase in violence seen in recent days after a relative lull in attacks around the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections.

Iraq's electoral commission was expected Monday to announce the results from balloting of Iraqis living overseas.

Partial results already released from voting in Iraq showed that the United Iraqi Alliance, a religious Shiite coalition, with a large lead.

Those results have been attacked by Sunni Arab and secular Shiite parties, which charge the election was tainted by fraud and other irregularities.

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