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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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