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Tue 12 Dec 2006Baghdad attacks kill 30 peopleGunmen and bombers killed 30 people in Baghdad today as a powerful Iraqi Shia leader urged President Bush to strike harder at Sunni rebels to avert civil war.Gunmen killed the 14 employees of a Shia religious foundation in the capital, while officials said three car bombs killed 16 people and wounded 25 in a separate attack near a fuel station in a religiously mixed area in southern Baghdad.