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BAGHDAD Iraqi officials say separate attacks have killed at least nine
people in the country.A police officer says militants snatched five soldiers
from a taxi Sunday at a fake checkpoint near the northern city
of Mosul and shot them dead. He added that gunmen killed a
grocer inside Mosul. The grocer was a member of the Shabak ethnic
group who have their own distinct language and religious beliefs.Another
police officer said a bomb exploded near a car ferrying a judge
in the northern town of Balad, killing three nurses walking nearby. The
judge, his brother and the driver were wounded.Two medical officials confirmed
the casualty figures. All spoke on condition of anonymity as they were
not authorized to release the information.
ic and social challenges. Bo's downfall
also has been widely perceived as the result of his defeat in
party infighting ahead of China's once-a-decade leadership transition last
fall.In a rare show of openness, the court has been publicizing details
of the trial in a bid to lend credibility to what is
widely seen as a political show trial. Bo, in return, has refrained
from using the trial as a stage on which to denounce the
administration and the opponents who purged him which would likely
be the leadership's worst nightmare."So far, the worst has been avoided,"
said Ding Xueliang, a Chinese politics expert at Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology. "He's been trying to play the game within the
limitations set up by the Chinese leadership. He does not talk about
politically sensitive things, even though everybody inside and outside China
knows that he's in trouble for politics."Still, the ousted leader mounted
an unexpectedly spirited defense against charges of abuse of power and of
netting $4.3 million through corruption, recanting earlier confessions and
rarely expressing contrition as he sought to lay the blame for most
of the misdeeds on his wife and others. He deftly cross-examined witnesses,
and was selectively unable to recall key details when the questioning turned
to him.It appeared to be Bo's last-ditch effort to repair the damage
the scandal wrought on the clean, populist image he had so carefully
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