An Iraqi removes rubble from outside his shop after a car bomb explosion in Baghdad's Rahmaniya district. Photo AFPWave of Fatal Bombs in Iraq After Killing of Qaeda Chiefs -- New York Times
BAGHDAD — A series of bombings on Friday struck mosques, a market and a shop in Baghdad, as well as the homes of a prosecutor and police officers in western Iraq, killing dozens, only five days after a joint Iraqi-American raid killed the top two leaders of the insurgency.
Iraq’s leaders had hailed the killings and arrests of insurgent leaders this week as a devastating blow to the group known as Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia but warned that retaliation was almost certain to come. It was not clear that the group, also known as Al Qaeda in Iraq, was behind the latest jolt of violence.
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