Scores Killed And Wounded In Iraq Bombing Attacks

Scores Die In Attacks On Shiite Targets In Iraq -- New York Times

BAGHDAD — In what appeared to be the deadliest day in Iraq since the withdrawal of the American military in December, a terrifying series of explosions that mostly targeted Shiite Muslims amounted to an emphatic demonstration of the still potent capabilities of the Sunni insurgency and a reminder of the instability left behind by American forces.

Shortly after midnight, a homemade bomb exploded in the capital, a harbinger of what was to come over the next hours. Around 5 a.m., a truck bomb exploded in Khadamiya, a Baghdad neighborhood where Shiite pilgrims had begun to gather to mark the life and death of a revered imam who was the Prophet Muhammad’s great-grandson. From then on, reports of other attacks flooded in from around the country — Samarra, Kirkuk, Mosul, Falluja, Ramadi, Hilla — and by midday officials said more than 70 people were dead and at least 260 people wounded. The only large cities spared were the southern port city of Basra and the holy city of Najaf.

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