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19 Iraqis Slain Near Syria Border, Baghdad Truck Bombing Kills Two

Nineteen people were found shot dead on the Iraq-Syrian border, while a suicide truck bomb attack on Baghdad’s agriculture ministry and a hotel killed two security guards and wounded 31. The US military meanwhile ordered a special probe into the shooting of the Italian intelligence agent who was killed at a checkpoint last Friday by US soldiers as he whisked a freed hostage to Baghdad airport.Full Story