Nine dead in fresh wave of violence in Iraq

Insurgents began a third straight day of attacks in Iraq today, including ambushes, car bombs and a drive-by shooting, killing nine Iraqis and wounding 21, police said.

It raised the death toll from attacks that began in Iraq on Friday to at least 74 in violence timed to deflate hopes in Washington and Baghdad that the installation of the nation’s first democratically elected government would curb the new outbreak of violence.