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6 Wednesday, June 16, 2004 WORli THE BATTALli Rioting breaks out after car bombing kills 10 in Baghda By Tom Lasseter KRT CAMPUS KHAMPHA BOUAPHANH • KRT CAMPUS Iraqis set an SUV on fire after U.S. troops pulled back at the scene where a car bomb detonated during rush hour as a convoy of three SUVs passed near Tahrir Square, in central Baghdad, on Monday. Soldiers wearing riot gear were later sent in to stabilize the scene. At least 10 people were killed, including five contract workers, and as many as 60 people were injured in the attack. BAGHDAD, Iraq - In some of the worst rioting since Baghdad fell last year, hundreds of Iraqis threw stones at U.S. soldiers, burned an American flag, danced around the charred body of a foreign contractor and looted a handful of stores Monday in downtown Baghdad. The outburst of rage came after a suicide car bomber crashed into a convoy of three sport utility vehicles carrying Westerners just after 8 a.m., killing at least 10 Iraqis and wounding more than 50, according to doctors at three hospitals. There were five for eigners killed and three wound ed in the blasts. A General Electric spokes woman confirmed that the five dead comprised three employ ees of Granite Services _ a GE company _ and two security workers. Officials in Baghdad said that among the five were two Britons, two Americans and a Frenchman. The front side of a two- story building that contained shops and apartments was left )o lec in rubble, and at least seil cars were charred and blas!iP a y 5 by shrapnel. Ji ne There have been at least I the p car bombings in Iraq sofan« n ter. month. And while such bonj ings once commonly targeJ buildings such as U.S. mill| )ne<: bases and Iraqi police stato|| ea di recently there have been seveljhe fi kamikaze-like strikes at conn of Iraqi police. Western contt tors and coalition soldiers. The violence comes asi country is counting down! days to June 30, when t officials will hand oversow eignty to a recently form Iraqi government. “It is an unfortunate j cowardly incident that hi pc tied today,” Prime Minis lyad Allawi said. “Fivech ians have been killed another three civilians sevei ly injured. These people I been helping Iraq to rebuilt M( rket power stations and recorotrljL M its electricity and power Hl | eration. Additionally, a mfl. ber of Iraqis have beenal killed and injured. WedeplJ this terrorist act and vow to:®' the criminals to justice as sol 5 as possible.” I NEWS IN BRIEF Government refuses to create do-not-spam list, says it might make problem WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration said Tuesday it will not create a national do-not-spam registry to discourage unwanted e-mail, fearing it could backfire and become a target list for new victims. The Federal Trade Commission told Congress that senders of unwant ed sales pitches might mine such a registry for names. Its chairman, Timothy Muris, quipped that consumers “will be spammed if we do a registry and spammed if we do not.” The commission was obligated by lawmakers to consider the proposal under the “can spam” legislation that Bush signed in December, an idea patterned after the FTC's enormously successful do-not-call registry to limit telemarketing calls. But the FTC concluded that on the Internet, unlike within the highly regulated U.S. telephone network, regulators would be “largely power less to identify those responsible for misusing the registry.” Vatican: Not as many victims of Inquisition as commonly believed VATICAN CITY (AP) — Torture, burning at the stake and other punish ment for the faithful condemned as witches or heretics by church tri bunals during the Inquisition was not as widespread as comm believed, the Vatican said Tuesday. Pope John Paul II praised the research, recalling that in 2000, church asked pardon for “errors committed in the service of thetrt through recourse to non-evangelical methods.” In 2000, John Paul apologized for the sins of Roman Catho; made in the name of their faith, including abuses during Inquisition, a systematic crackdown by church officials todefendc trinal orthodoxy. 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