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Truck bombs kill 95 in Iraq

Blasts target two ministries

By DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE PRESS SERVICES

Posted: August 20, 2009 at 5:54 a.m.

Credit: AP
 General view of a bridge destroyed in a car bomb explosion near the Finance Ministry in northern Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday.

Nearly simultaneous truck bombs struck Iraq's Foreign and Finance ministries Wednesday as a wave of explosions killed at least 95 people less than two months after U.S. forces withdrew from urban areas.

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