At least 25 dead in day of bombings in Baghdad: Two Marines killed near Jordanian border

By Andy Mosher, SW - Washington Post, July 16, 2005, Boston Globe

BAGHDAD -- A suicide car bombing last night near the official residence of President Jalal Talabani capped a day of bombings and explosions across the capital in which at least 25 people were killed, including policemen, security guards, and civilians, and 111 others were wounded.
At least seven of the attacks were suicide bombings. One struck an Iraqi Army base in the Shaab District, killing eight Iraqis and wounding 20, Iraqi officials said. A blast in the Sadiya District killed 11 people and wounded 24. After nightfall, a car bomb in western Baghdad killed six policemen and wounded 45 people, most of them civilians, Iraqi police said.
Three American soldiers were wounded but none died in the urban attacks, US military spokesmen said. Two Marines were killed in a roadside bombing during combat operations in a desert area of western Iraq near the Jordanian border, according to a US military statement.