 Mortar rounds hit the heavily guarded Interior Ministry and a nearby park Tuesday, killing two government employees and wounding five other people, police said. The attack came a day after a CBS correspondent was seriously wounded and her two crewmembers and a U.S. soldier were killed in a wave of car bombings and shootings that killed at least three dozen other people. The military said another U.S. soldier had died Monday during combat in northern Iraq, raising to 2,468 the number of U.S. military members who have died since the war began in 2003, according to an Associated Press count. Amid the deteriorating security, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki held meetings aimed at finding new defense and interior ministers more than a week after his national unity government took office. Iraq's ethnic, sectarian and secular parties are struggling to agree on who should run the two crucial ministries. ...
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