Saturday, December 30, 2006
Coordinated car bombs kill many in mixed Baghdad district
Security
A series of three coordinated car bombs exploded in a mixed Shiite-Sunni district in Baghdad, killing 15 people and wounding 25, security and military sources said. The three cars exploded in rapid succession some 10 hours after the pre-dawn execution of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein. It was not immediately clear whether the attacks amounted to a reprisal from his supporters.
Fifteen people were killed in the blasts and 25 wounded, a security source told AFP on condition of anonymity. A military source confirmed the same toll. In the first major attack Saturday, at least 31 people were killed when a car bomb exploded in a fish market in the central Iraqi Shiite city of Kufa. Car bomb attacks on Shiite crowds in Iraq are usually blamed on Sunni insurgent groups such as Al-Qaeda or the Islamic Army of Iraq, which is linked to Saddam's defunct Baath party.
Fifteen people were killed in the blasts and 25 wounded, a security source told AFP on condition of anonymity. A military source confirmed the same toll. In the first major attack Saturday, at least 31 people were killed when a car bomb exploded in a fish market in the central Iraqi Shiite city of Kufa. Car bomb attacks on Shiite crowds in Iraq are usually blamed on Sunni insurgent groups such as Al-Qaeda or the Islamic Army of Iraq, which is linked to Saddam's defunct Baath party.
