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Mon 04 Apr 200723 shot after being forced off busIRAQ:Car bombs killed 18 people in Baghdad yesterday and gunmen shot dead 23 workers after pulling them off a minibus in Iraq's northern city of Mosul in an apparent revenge attack.South of Baghdad, the US military said that it carried out airstrikes on an al-Qaeda meeting location, killing 15 alleged militants. Ground forces later killed another three combatants in the operation, the military said.