Iraq Attacks Down Nearly 60% .... But ....

War News Updates Editor: Two articles that describe what is happening in Iraq today.

US Military: Iraq Attacks Down Nearly 60 Percent -- AP

BAGHDAD (AP) — High-profile attacks in Iraq have fallen nearly 60 percent in the past year, the U.S. military said Sunday, though violence continues to plague the northern city of Mosul, where a suicide car bomber targeting an American convoy killed one Iraqi and wounded 45 others.

Mosul is considered the last urban stronghold of al-Qaida in Iraq, and Sunday's attack comes as military operations are being conducted there before a June 30 deadline for U.S. forces to pull out of Iraq's cities.

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At Least 22 Killed in Iraq Attacks -- New York Times

BAGHDAD — On the same day that military spokesmen gave a rare briefing in Baghdad to announce a continued drop in overall violence, insurgents killed at least 22 people in eight attacks in Mosul and Fallujah on Sunday, using roadside bombs, drive-by shootings, suicide bombers and execution-style killings.

One of the dead was a two-month-old baby, whose house in Fallujah was hit by a hand grenade, which also wounded his parents and another child, a police official there said.

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