Car bomb at Iraqi army station kills 47 in suicide attack

Thursday, February 12, 2004

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A second suicide bombing in as many days killed up to 47 people Wednesday, pushing the toll in the back-to-back attacks to 100. Again, Iraqis were the targets -- this time, a crowd of volunteers for Iraq's new army -- in an apparent campaign to wreck U.S. plans to transfer power by summer.

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