Iraq: Fresh Wave Of Violence Strikes Baghdad -- ADNKronos
Baghdad, 18 August (AKI) - A Shia cleric was killed by unidentified gunmen in Baghdad on Monday, while several others were injured in a wave of bomb attacks that swept the Iraqi capital.
Sheikh Jaber Fares Dhaher died after insurgents attacked his car in the southern Baghdad neighbourhood of Zafaraniyah, Interior Ministry sources said. His wife and daughter were also wounded in the attack.
A total of 17 were injured in bomb attacks targeting US and Iraqi forces in Baghdad, sources told the news agency Voices of Iraq.
Five people, including two policemen, were wounded by an improvised explosive device the Karrada district in the third bomb attack in the city in the past 24 hours.
Nine Iraqis, including three policemen, were injured by a mine targeting a military patrol in the western district of Yarmuk, while a similar attack in the Mansur neighbourhood injured five people, including three policemen.
On Sunday night, a suicide bomber killed 15 people including at least six US-backed Sunni Arab fighters, near a crowded outdoor market in east Baghdad.
Another 30 people were wounded in the attack near the historic Abu Hanifa Mosque in the Sunni district of Adhamiya and women and children were among the dead.
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Iraq Pilgrims Head Home -- Reuters
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Iraq plans less intrusive security stance in Najaf -- Yahoo News/AFP
U.S. says expects militia leaders to return to Iraq -- Reuters
Iraqi, US units replace Georgian troops -- Al Arabiya
Lebanese PM to visit Iraq for trade talks -- Middle East Times
Why Arab states must embrace Iraq -- Financial Times
Why Iraq Is Still Oil Poor -- Time Magazine
US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,143 -- Yahoo News/AFP
My Comment: The last remnants of Al Qaeda and Sunni extremists think they are not going away .... but they will. Violence will be a part of Iraqi society for the next few years, but the trends for peace and reconciliation are there.
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