Bomb in Iraq’s Mosul kills seven, wounds 70, US military deaths in Iraq at 3,931

Protesters display anti-US posters while marching towards the US embassy in Manila on 23 Jan, 2008 to demand an end to the presence of US troops in southern Philippines and to the RP-US Balikatan, the annual joint military

Bomb in Iraq’s Mosul kills seven, wounds 70
The Sunni Islamist militant group is blamed forBAGHDAD,23 Jan —A bomb attack on a residential building in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul on Wednesday killed at least seven people and wounded more than 70, police said. Witnesses said it was one of the biggest explosions they had ever heard in Mosul, part of a region where al Qaeda in Iraq militants have regrouped after being pushed out of Baghdad and western Anbar Province. most major bombings in Iraq. Women and children were among the victims, police said, adding that the death toll was expected to rise.

US military deaths in Iraq at 3,931

WASHINGTON, 23 Jan—As of Tuesday, 22 Jan, 2008, at least 3,931 members of the US military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,197 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military’s numbers. The AP count is two higher than the Defence Department’s tally, last updated Tuesday at 10 am EST. The British military has reported 174 deaths; Italy, 33; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 21; Bulgaria, 13; Spain, 11; Denmark, seven; El Salvador, five; Slovakia, four; Latvia, three; Estonia, Netherlands, Thailand, Romania, two each; and Australia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, South Korea, one death each.