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Fears of Civil War Grip Iraq as Bombings and Death Skyrocket
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/20
An Iraqi police officer inspects the site of a car bomb attack in Basra. (Photograph: Nabil Al-Jurani/AP)
Providing further evidence that Iraq is already experiencing the violence of a civil war, multiple bombings in two major cities on Monday killed dozens of people and injured many more.
News agencies report that more than thirty-four people were killed, adding to a string of other violence that left more than 150 people dead from the end of last week and through the weeked.
According to Al-Jazeera:
Eight car bombs in mainly Shia districts of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killed 20 people on Monday and 11 others were killed by attacks in the southern city of Basra, police and medics said.
Explosions were also reported in the city of Samarra but there was no immediate word on casualties.
