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(A P) — C ar bom bs targeting
Shiite areas devastated a bustling
outdoor market and an auto dealer­
ship Tuesday, part o f a relentless
onslaught that killed 54 people and
prom pted the United States to de-
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gents in w estern Iraq.
The bom bs also w ounded 120
people, officials said. The death toll
m ade T uesday one o f the bloodiest
days in Iraq this month, and law ­
m akers still had not agreed on who
should lead the nation’s army and
police forces.
A uthorities also captured a sus­
pected terrorist w ho allegedly co n ­
fessed to beheading hundreds o f
people. The operation by Iraqi forces
also netted docum ents, cell phones
and com puters containing infor­
mation on other w anted terrorists
and Islam ic extrem ist groups.
The w orst bom bing hit the o ut­
door m arket as Iraqis were doing
th e ir e v e n in g s h o p p in g in
H usseiniyah, about 60 m iles north
o f Baghdad. At least 25 people were
killed and 65 were w ounded. Inte­
rior M inistry spokesm an Lt. Col.
Falah A l-M oham edaw i said.
Hours earlier, a car packed with
explosives blew up at a dealership
in the largely Shiite city o f Hillah,
about 60 m iles south o f Baghdad,
killing at least 12 people and wound-
An Iraqi woman and children are pushed in a wooden cart down
a street in the Old City area o f Najaf, Iraq Tuesday, as driving in
the neighborhood is forbidden in an attempt to prevent car bomb
attacks.
ing 32, Capt. M ulhana Khalid said.
A bomb hidden in a plastic bag
also detonated outside a bakery in a
religiously mixed neighborhood in
eastern Baghdad, killing at least nine
people and injuring 10, police Lt. Col.
Falah al-M ohammedawi said.
Separately, m ortar rounds fired
by rem ote control from a car hit the
third floor o f the heavily guarded
Interior M inistry and a nearby park,
killing tw o governm ent em ployees
and wounding three other people.
A day earlier, 40 people were
killed in various attacks, including
ac ar bombing in Baghdad that killed
tw o CBS N ew s crew m en and seri­
o u sly w ounded netw ork co rre ­
spondent K im berly Dozier. She
underw ent tw o em ergency surger­
ies and was transferred to a U.S.
military hospital in Germany, where
she was reported to be i n critical but
stable condition.
Press Informed Bush of Deaths
(A P) — P resident Bush learned
o f reports that U.S. M arines killed
tw o dozen u narm ed Iraqi c iv il­
ians o nly afte r rep o rters began
a s k in g q u e s tio n s , th e W h ite
H ouse said T uesday.
A sked w hen Bush w as first
b riefed ab o u t the alleg ed a tro c i­
tie s in H a d ith a , an in su rg e n t
stro n g h o ld in w estern Iraq, W hite
H o u se p r e s s s e c r e ta r y T o n y
Snow rep lied T uesd ay : “W hen a
T im e rep o rter first m ade the call.”
T im e m ag azin e w as first to re ­
p o rt, in M arch, that the U .S. m ili­
tary w as in v e stig a tin g a dozen
M arin es for p o ssib le w ar crim es
in the N o v em b er in cident. T he
k illin g s, w hich in clu d ed w om en
President Bush participates in a ceremony with the Ambassador
o f Iraq to the United States Samir Sumaidaie (left) in the Oval
Office of the White House Tuesday. (AP photo)
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u n arm ed civ ilia n s in a taxi at the
scen e and w ent in to h om es and
sh o t o th e r p e o p le , a c c o r d in g io
R ep. John M urtha, D -Pa.. a d e c o ­
rate d M arine w ar v eteran and
p ro m in en t critic o f Iraq p o licy
w h o has talk ed w ith m ilitary o ffi­
cials.
Snow said th at he has been
assu red by the P entagon that “all
the d e ta ils” w ill b e given to the
p u b lic once the in v estig atio n is
o v er. “W e ’ll h av e a p ictu re o f
w hat h ap p e n ed ,” Snow said.
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giant Philip M orris must pay nearly
$8() m i 11 ion i n damages to a longt i me
sm oker, a case that could shield
com panies from large jury aw ards.
The O regon Suprem e C ourt had
ruled that the am ount w asn’t exces­
sive given the “extraordinarily rep­
rehensible” conduct o f Phi I ip M or­
ris in m arketing cigarettes.
A jury had ordered dam ages be
paid to the fam ily o f Jesse D. W ill­
iam s, a local jan ito r and African
A m erican resident who sm oked
three packs o f M arlboros a day
before he died in 1997 o f lung can ­
cer. W illiam s took up cigarettes in
the 1950s while serving in the Army
in Korea.
T he case gives justices a chance
to clarify a 2003 ruling in an insur­
ance case that said punitive d am ­
ages should generally be in line
with actual dam ages. A rgum ents
will be this fall.
Philip M orris lawyers said that
the punitive dam ages in the W ill­
iams case w ere nearly 100 tim es the
com pensatory dam ages and that
the O regon Suprem e Court deci­
sion is “dangerous.”
T he state court said that the
co m p an y “k n ew that sm o k in g
caused serious and som etim es fa­
tal d isease, but it nevertheless
spread false or m isleading inform a­
tion to suggest to the public that
doubts rem ained about the issue.”