Authorities in Iraq report a deadly bombing at a Shiite mosque south of Baghdad.

At least ten people are believed dead, and about 40 wounded.

The blast targeted the mosque entrance, as worshippers gathered for prayers toward the end of the day's Ramadan fast.

Police are investigating whether the blast came from a car packed with explosives or a bomb left at the scene.

The explosion came in a Shiite town that's been the scene of repeated militant attacks. Five days ago, a car bomb in a crowded town market killed ten people, including three women and two children.

The attack is the latest in a series believed intended to thwart Iraq’s upcoming constitutional election. The country’s Sunni Muslims oppose the proposed document.

Sunnis in Iraq say they won't boycott next week's constitution vote, but instead, they'll vote to reject the document.

A top Sunni political leader says now that the Shiite-dominated National Assembly backed off changes to the election rules, there's "no need" to call a boycott.

The leader says, "If there is honesty" and international monitoring, the vote will go against the constitution. Sunnis fear the framework would split the country along ethnic and religious lines.

On Sunday, lawmakers had adopted new measures that made it dramatically harder for opponents to block the constitution.

Amid pressure from the UN and U.S. leaders, the assembly backed down from the changes Wednesday.

A top UN official in Iraq says the reversal "provides the ground for a fair referendum."

Meanwhile President Bush said Wednesday a coalition offensive in western Iraq is making headway thanks to Iraqi forces he says are "doing a fine job."

"They make a difference on the battlefield,” he said as he spoke to reporters after an Oval Office briefing from top U.S. commanders on Operation River Gate, the operation aimed at recapturing three Euphrates River towns held by insurgents.

Mr. Bush says Iraqi soldiers are "showing more and more capability to take the fight to the enemy, “ but cautioned that terrorists in Iraq are aiming to disrupt this month's vote on a new constitution.

Despite that, he said, "Democracy is moving forward."

Last week, the top U.S. commander in Iraq told Congress that the number of Iraqi battalions able to operate without American help has dropped from three to one.

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Regulators Crack Down On Spyware Operation
Government regulators are trying to shut down a spyware operation.
Government regulators are trying to shut down a company they say secretly loaded spyware onto the computers of unwitting Internet users.

The Federal Trade Commission accuses a New Hampshire man, Walter Rines, and his company, Odysseus Marketing, of luring computer users with the promise of free software that would make
peer-to-peer file-sharing anonymous.

The FTC says the claim was bogus, and the software was bundled with spyware that was secretly downloaded onto computers.

The results were a flood of pop-up ads, computer crashes and other annoyances.

Rines says he has done nothing wrong and that users were fully aware of what they were downloading.

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