Blast kills soldier, two journalists

BAGHDAD, Iraq — A car bomb on Monday killed a U.S. soldier and two CBS News crew members, and severely wounded an American correspondent in one of a string of attacks that killed dozens of people in Iraq over the course of the day.

Reporter Kimberly Dozier, 39, and two British crew members were traveling with the 4th Brigade Combat Team of the 4th Infantry Division, which was working its way through central Baghdad. Cameraman Paul Douglas, 48, and soundman James Brolan, 42, died at the scene of the attack. An Iraqi interpreter also died in the blast, the military said. The military did not name the U.S. soldier killed in the attack, the 2,466th fatality since the war began.

The CBS crew was riding through the predominantly Shiite Muslim, middle-class shopping district of Karada, and had stepped down from a Humvee when the car bomb ripped through the vehicles. It was unclear how the bomb was detonated.

Douglas had worked for CBS News for more than a decade in hot spots such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Rwanda and Bosnia. Brolan was a freelancer who had worked for the network for a year, in Baghdad and Afghanistan, and was part of the CBS News team that received a 2006 Overseas Press Club Award for its reporting on the Pakistan earthquake.

The attack suffered by the CBS news crew was an eerie echo of the one sustained by ABC anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt five months ago as they were traveling with Iraqi troops north of Baghdad. The conflict has claimed the lives of 71 reporters, most of them Iraqis, since it began in 2003, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

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Other violence: At least 33 people were shot to death or killed in bombings in Baghdad, as an ongoing insurgency raged and the two major Muslim sects continued to swap rounds of attacks and assassinations. Targets for bombing attacks included the German embassy, an Iraqi police station and a parking garage. The most deadly attack struck a bus full of day laborers on their way to work at a base belonging to Iranian dissident group Mujahedeen e Khalq, or People's Mujahedeen, a group opposed to the Shiite government of Iraq's eastern neighbor. The blast in a Shiite neighborhood north of Baghdad killed 11 workers and wounded 16 others. Another bomb targeting a patrol of Iraqi police in northern Baghdad killed eight people, most of them students from a nearby school. And Sunday night, two British soldiers died after a British patrol north of Basra was struck by a roadside bomb.

Saddam trial: The judge in Saddam Hussein's trial ejected a spectator from the courtroom Monday after lawyers accused the man of belonging to a Shiite militia and threatening the defense team. Eight more defense witnesses took the stand Monday, insisting that Saddam was not seeking revenge against Shiites when he launched a sweep of arrests after a 1982 assassination attempt in Dujail and that 148 people sentenced to death got a fair trial.