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Baghdad car bomb kills 4, injures 10
 Iraqis inspect the site where a car bomb exploded in Baghdad Monday, killing four people. SPECIAL REPORT
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YOUR E-MAIL ALERTSBAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A car bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol exploded in eastern Baghdad at 10:30 a.m. Monday, killing four civilians and wounding 10 others, Iraqi Emergency Police said. Monday's car bomb followed a weekend of violence. Thirteen people were killed on Sunday, most of them in Baquba, where deadly attacks have increased in recent days. Gunmen killed three people in a car as they traveled in central Baquba around 1:45 p.m. Sunday, according to a police official. Earlier in and near Baquba, gunmen killed five people, including a schoolteacher and an Iraqi army officer, in three separate drive-by shootings, according to a Diyala Joint Coordination Center official. In Baghdad, a car bomb detonated around 4:15 p.m., killing four people. . In the northern city of Mosul, a car bomb detonated, killing a female high school student and wounding 19 others, according to hospital and police officials. The bomb was apparently intended for a U.S. military convoy but missed its target. Sunday's incidents came amid a major security crackdown by Iraq and U.S. forces in Baghdad. Report: Iraqi security takeover begins in JulyOn Monday, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said his forces would take over security in the southern province of Muthanna in July, the Reuters news agency reported. Muthanna, where the British oversee a multinational contingent including Japanese troops, would be the first of Iraq's 15 provinces outside of the relatively peaceful Kurdish north to come under full Iraqi control, Reuters said. Search continues for missing soldiersMeanwhile, coalition forces continued to search for two U.S. soldiers missing in Iraq since a Friday attack by insurgents. (Full story) The Defense Department released their names late Sunday, after notifying their families. The two missing soldiers were identified as Pfc. Thomas Lowell Tucker, 25, of Madras, Oregon, and Pfc. Kristian Menchaca, 23, of Houston, Texas. Spc. David J. Babineau, 25, of Springfield, Massachusetts, was killed in the attack, the military said. Hussein trial adjournsAlso Monday, the trial of Saddam Hussein was adjourned until July 10. (Full story) During Monday's session, a prosecutor asked for the death penalty for the deposed Iraqi leader. The defense is scheduled to make closing arguments when the trial resumes. Hussein and seven of his former regime members are accused of killing and torturing Shiites in a crackdown launched in Dujail after a 1982 assassination attempt on the former dictator. Key region securedU.S. and Iraqi troops Sunday secured an important region in an operation the military hopes will choke off and weaken the insurgency there. Troops encircling the largely Sunni city of Ramadi are now positioned at every main access point, after taking control of the southern suburb of Humara overnight. (Watch 500-pound bomb hit key Ramadi bridge -- 3:16) Military officials say that completes their strategic isolation of Ramadi, the long-volatile capital of the vast Anbar province west of Baghdad. The operation is designed to stop insurgents from entering and leaving the city. CNN's Nic Robertson, embedded with the 1-37 Armor Battalion Bandits, was briefed by U.S. military officials about the operation. The 1-37 is part of the 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division, which is spearheading the mission to regain Ramadi. The operation to secure Humara started just after dark on Saturday when a U.S. aircraft dropped a 500-pound bomb in the area, which had been a no-go sector for U.S. and Iraq forces. Three U.S. soldiers were injured in the operation. Two were lightly wounded when a roadside bomb hit a fuel truck. Another bomb damaged a tank, breaking the leg of a U.S. soldier. There have been reports that dozens, perhaps hundreds, of families are leaving Ramadi, a city of 400,000, because of the violence, but there has not been a large-scale exodus. U.S. and Iraqi forces have been fighting insurgents in Ramadi for weeks, and are determined to establish Iraqi security and government control, with commanders noting that the city won't be secure until a stable government is established there. CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq, Nic Robertson and Barbara Starr contributed to this report. 
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