At least 16 people were killed across Iraq on Monday, including eight troops and four pilgrims, one day after a suicide bomber killed 48 devotees in an attack US officials blamed on Al-Qaeda in Iraq. In a brazen late afternoon assault, gunmen ambushed a passing Iraqi Army patrol in the town of Bohruz in the restive Diyala Province.
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