Iraqi police say a car in a Baghdad street that had aroused suspicion from bystanders blew up near a police convoy today.
Salih Saif Aldin was shot at close range while photographing fire-damaged houses in a street in Baghdad on 14 October.
Four Iraqis were wounded by a roadside bomb on Commercial Street in Baghdad's Shabb Shiite neighborhood, also late in the morning, the official added.
On one street alone in Baghdad, in the neighborhood of Sidea(ph), 20 Shiite shopkeepers have simply been gunned down.
"I feel the same way as any Iraqi feels -- I will feel my freedom and liberation when I don't see an American stopping an Iraqi on the street, " Baghdad resident Awatef Jwad told CNN.
In an op.ed for Wednesday's Wall Street Journal, noted Baghdad bloggers Mohammed and Omar Fadhil observe that early signs of the surge's success are manifest.
Iraqi soldiers have begun patrolling Haifa Street, one of the most violent in Baghdad.
And car bombs planted in a busy trading street in Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, killed four people and wounded 28, Interior Ministry sources said.
Today, Saadoon Street and Firdos Square bear no resemblance to the Baghdad that fell to the Americans back then.
' So I go to this famous place called The Book Fair(ph) on Mutembi Street(ph), a very famous part of Baghdad, an old part of Baghdad.
On April 28, US soldiers in Iraq discovered detonation wires across the street from the newly built Huda Girls' school in Tarmiya, north of Baghdad.
This had become an Iraqi Shia district, and on the main street were butcher shops and kebab stands that reminded me of commercial streets in Baghdad.
On the positive side, street life is coming back all over, restaurants and shops are reopening, Baghdad is getting about 18 hours of electricity now, and gasoline lines, a mile long four weeks ago when I was last in Iraq, are now virtually gone.
At the end of October, the Wall Street Journal reported that Wolfowitz had pressed reluctant World Bank staffers to establish a permanent office in Baghdad.
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