WAR IN IRAQ | Developments
Here are Tuesday’s developments:
Flinching in the face of a veto threat, Democratic congressional leaders neared agreement with the Bush administration on legislation to pay for the Iraq war without a troop withdrawal timeline. Several officials said the emerging $120 billion compromise would include as much as $8 billion for Democratic domestic priorities. The bill would also include the first increase in the federal minimum wage in more than a decade.
A car bomb exploded at an outdoor market in a Shiite area of Baghdad, killing 25 people and wounding at least 60.
In north Baghdad, gunmen wearing army uniforms stopped a bus carrying college students to a Shiite neighborhood and killed eight students and wounded two.
Near Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, gunmen killed six people from one family — a woman, her 5-year-old son and four men — and stole their car, police said.
At least 100 Iraqis were killed or found dead nationwide, police said.
U.S. and Iraqi troops endured temperatures of 115 degrees as they trudged through canals waist-deep in sewage, searching for three American soldiers abducted in a May 12 ambush.
At least 3,422 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003.
Since the start of U.S. military operations in Iraq, 25,549 U.S. service members have been wounded in hostile action, according to the Defense Department’s weekly tally.
Associated Press