BAGHDAD, Iraq - A U.S. jet bombed a suspected insurgent target in central Iraq (news - web sites) on Tuesday, as gunmen assassinated an Iraqi nuclear scientist north of Baghdad and a pipeline fire cut oil exports to Turkey.
Elsewhere, five American soldiers and an Iraqi civilian were wounded when the Humvee they were traveling in was hit by a car bomb near Hawija, 150 miles north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
The bloodshed came a day after Iraq's interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi blamed the upsurge of violence on a campaign by insurgents to foment sectarian civil war as well as derail legislative elections set for Jan. 30.
Allawi said the mainly Sunni Muslim insurgents, blamed for Sunday's bombings in the Shiite holy cities of Najaf and Karbala, want to "create ethnic and religious tensions, problems and conflicts ... to destroy the unity of this country."
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