A suicide-homicide car bomb exploded outside the Australian Embassy and close to the Australian military barracks in central Baghdad today. At least two Iraqis died and six others, including two Aussies, were wounded.

A short time later, a second suicide-homicide car bomb explosion occurred near the Al-Andalus traffic circle at the edge of the Baghdad neighborhood of Karrada. Less than an hour after the second car bomb, an Iraqi army base in Western Baghdad was targeted for a third suicide-homicide attack. Two deaths and five wounded were reported.

Based upon available information, at least eight deaths and more than a dozen wounded have been reported to have resulted from today's three suicide car bomb attacks.

[Update 0645 EST] A fourth car bomb is reported to have exploded at a military complex in Baghdad, killing two civilians and two Iraqi soldiers. An update on the second car bomb has 18 dead, including five Iraqi police. The total dead is now believed to be at least 26. There's also been a report of an explosion at a Baghdad bank, but no casualties have been identified.

Also, according to this report, a message on the Internet stated that the Abu Musab al-Zarqawi group called al-Qaeda Organization for Holy War in Iraq sent "martyrdom squadrons" to detonate the bombs at the Australian Embassy and other locations today.

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