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IRAQ: Violence continues in Iraq as Saddam Hussein, facing the death sentence, urges Iraqis to seek reconciliation

A roadside bomb targeting a U.S. military patrol killed three civilians, including a student, and wounded eight others, including three students, in the city of Falluja, police and hospital sources said on Tuesday (November 7). A police source said seven were killed and 10 wounded in the incident. The explosion happened the same day as toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, back in court after being sentenced to hang for crimes against humanity in a separate trial, urged Iraqis to seek reconciliation. Falluja, a Sunni Arab city 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad, was the main insurgent stronghold in Baghdad until a U.S. offensive drove most guerrillas out in November. In Baghdad, families began the grim task of getting the bodies of their dead loved ones from the morgue to give them a proper burial. A total of 10 bodies were found with gunshot wounds during the last 24 hours in different districts of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. They said that some of the victims showed signs torture. An attack on a revered Shi'ite shrine in February has unleashed bloodletting between majority Shi'ites and minority Sunni Muslims who were politically dominant under Saddam Hussein and now form the backbone of the three-year-old insurgency.

ITN Source | November 7, 2006Watch more videos from ITN Source

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