At least 15 people including one U.S. soldier died earlier today in a pair of rush-hour car bombings in Iraq. In Mosul the bombing targeted a convoy of local council members. They escaped injury but the attack killed nine and 25 were injured. Meanwhile in the town of Baqouba, northwest of Baghdad, a suicide bomber set off a bomb outside the U.S. base. FIve Iraqis and one U.S. soldier died. 15 Iraqis and 10 U.S. soldiers were injured. Two soldiers from Poland and Slovakia as well as one from Latvia have died after an exploision while the troops were defusing mines south of Baghdad.