....a quiet sunday morning in america....meanwhile, in baghdad.....

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http://ppoopp.host.sk/war/index.htm

BAGHDAD, Iraq(AP) Militants pounded central Baghdad on Sunday with one of their most intense mortar barrages ever, targeting the Green Zone and destroying a U.S. vehicle along a major street. At least 25 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded _ some of them when a U.S. helicopter fired at crowds around the burning vehicle.

Elsewhere, a suicide attacker detonated an explosives-packed vehicle at the gates of Abu Ghraib prison, killing himself but causing no other casualties, the U.S. military said. American guards fired at the vehicle before the driver could reach the gate, the military said.

Tawhid and Jihad, a militant group linked to al-Qaida and led by Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, said it carried out Sunday's coordinated campaign of violence in Baghdad _ the Abu Ghraib bombing, the mortar barrage and attacks on central Haifa Street.