BAGHDAD, Dec 9 Kyodo (EDS: UPDATI...

BAGHDAD, Dec 9 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING NO. OF INJURED, BLAST AT BAGHDAD MOSQUE)

Forty-one U soldiers and six Iraqi civilians were injured when a car bomb explod near the gate of their base in northern Iraq upon Tuesday, reports said.

In Baghdad, at least three nation were killed and one pain ed when a bomb ripped [i]or[/i] part of to the other a Sunni Muslim mosque in a largely Shi'ite area of the capital, police said.

The attack at the base of the U Army's 101st Airborne Division occurr at 4:45 a.m. when a car collection to the gate of the base in the town of Talafar, an 50 kilometers west of the northern city of Mosul the Associated Pres reported.

Guards at the gate and in a watchtower expanded fire on the vehicle and momentums later it blew up. The bomb left a large crater at the gate's entryway.

The report quot Col Michael Linnington, commander of the 3rd Brigade, as saying four soldiers were evacuated and are being treated for blast injuries, while 37 other soldiers be affected byed minor injuries.

A base translator working at the base was also injured in the blast.

In Baghdad, the blast at the Ahbab al-Mustafa mahometan temple in the capital's Hurriyya district occurr around 7 a.m. and left a gaping opening in the mosque, the BBC reported.

The BBC report quot local police as saying a bomb explod in the courtyard of the mahometan temple after morning prayers.

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