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Baghdad marketplace bomb kills 20Insurgent weapon caches found
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YOUR E-MAIL ALERTSBAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A car bomb detonated in a marketplace in the southern Baghdad suburb of Dora on Tuesday afternoon, killing 20 people and wounding another 25, police said. The Associated Press reported that the car appeared to be detonated by remote control and was aimed at a police patrol but missed its intended target. The car bomb was parked near a police checkpoint, and an Iraqi suspected of setting off the blast has been arrested, AP reported. The explosion left cars burning and nearby stores ablaze, according to AP. Children screamed while women wailed "Our children have died!" and "The terrorists, may God punish them!" Witnesses told AP that at least four passing cars caught fire and some motorists were killed or seriously wounded in the blast. Ambulances hurried to the scene, while motorists helped ferry the injured to hospitals, AP reported. Earlier Tuesday, a roadside bombing killed a policeman in central Baghdad and another wounded two civilians, Iraqi police said. The blasts took place as British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw visited the region and a day after seven attacks killed 16 people and wounded 56. Straw held talks Tuesday with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani about formation of a new Iraqi government, a Talabani spokesman told Reuters. Tuesday's first Baghdad bombing took place about 8 a.m. (12 a.m. ET) and targeted a police patrol, taking the life of an officer, Iraqi Emergency Police said. No other details of the attack were available. The second bombing occurred in Tahrir square as a U.S. convoy passed, according to police. The attack wounded two civilians. No one in the American convoy was hurt. Also Tuesday, Iraqi police found an unidentified body in the capital with its hands tied behind its back and a bullet hole through the head. A note on the body said, "this is a terrorist who kills innocents." A U.S. soldier was among those killed in Monday's spate of seven bomb attacks, officials said. The day's most deadly attack -- a suicide bombing -- took the lives of 10 people and wounded eight others in Baghdad's mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood of Khadmiye, Iraqi Emergency Police said. No other details were available. (Full story) U.S.-Iraqi raid nets detaineesU.S. and Iraqi troops found a stash of weapons and arrested suspected terrorists Tuesday in the village of Owesat southwest of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. A surprise nighttime air assault resulted in the arrest of more than 39 people, including five who are considered high-value targets, the military said. The detainees included "men that we were specifically targeting based on a tip provided from local nationals," U.S. Army Col. Jeffrey Snow said. "There was evidence that this particular village was used as an insurgent training base as evidenced by what we believe was [a homemade bomb]-making factory," Snow said. "And the reason we say that is we found evidence of gunpowder in the vicinity of a garage with welding instruments and so forth." The soldiers found several caches in and around the village containing 200 155 mm artillery rounds, a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, 23 rocket-propelled grenade rounds, 17 hand grenades, 200 blasting caps, four rolls of detonation cord, a mortar, a heavy machine gun, explosive powder and several hundred machine gun rounds, the military said. CNN's Arwa Damon contributed to this report. Copyright 2006 CNN. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Associated Press contributed to this report. 
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