Remember Iraq?

Getting better everyday:

Three car bombs in Baghdad and a series of bombings and shootings across Iraq killed at least 16 Iraqis and two American soldiers Thursday. The U.S. military said a soldier also was killed Wednesday.

One of the U.S. soldiers killed Thursday died in a roadside explosion south of Baghdad, and the other was slain by gunmen who attacked his patrol, the U.S. military said. The soldier killed Wednesday was involved in a raid south of Baghdad to capture "foreign terrorists," the military said.

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In southern Iraq, British troops pulled out of a base Thursday that had come under frequent attack. They planned to reposition forces along the area bordering Iran to crack down on smuggling.

Camp Abu Naji in Amarah, 200 miles southeast of Baghdad, was turned over to Iraqi authorities, Maj. Charlie Burbridge, a spokesman for British forces, said from Basra. The camp in Maysan province had housed about 1,200 troops.

Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr painted the British move as the first expulsion of coalition forces from an Iraqi urban center.

"This is the first Iraqi city that has kicked out the occupier!" said a message from Sadr's office that played on car-mounted speakers in Amarah, capital of Maysan. "We have to celebrate this occasion!"

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