BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 15 — Gunmen fired on a minibus in Baghdad on Sunday, killing two Iraqi women who were working for the U.S.-led coalition, and assailants in a southern city killed a coalition translator and critically injured another in attacks on their houses, police and witnesses said.
Scattered clashes broke out in the southern city of Nasiriyah between Italian troops and forces loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr at a bridge across the Euphrates River, residents and Italian media said. Two al-Sadr militiamen were killed, according to a resident, Ghaith Majeed.
The Baghdad killings were part of a rebel strategy to deter cooperation between Iraqis and the coalition that plans to hand over sovereignty on June 30, and there was scattered violence across Iraq's Shiite southern heartland between troops and armed supporters of al-Sadr.
http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusintl/ap05-15-115607.asp?reg=mideast&vts=51620040533Sorry if this is a dupe. I looked but I may have missed it.
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