Reply #10: Dozens Die in Car Bombings as Iraqi Violence Surges

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Source: McClatchy Newspapers

Dozens die in car bombings as Iraqi violence surges
By Jay Price | McClatchy Newspapers

BAGHDAD — Car bombs and other attacks killed at least 56 people in Iraq on Wednesday and wounded another 103 in a day of mayhem that heralds an annual surge in violence during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

The bloodiest attack was a double car bombing on a crowded Baghdad shopping street that killed at least 32 and left more than 50 people wounded. It was the worst Baghdad attack since July.

The wave of attacks in the past few days have mostly been in areas where the extremist Sunni Muslim insurgent group al Qaida in Iraq operates and the attacks bear the group's trademarks, said Maj. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner, the top U.S. military spokesman in Iraq.

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In the town of Um al Diban, a suicide bomber driving a minibus rammed into the home of a contractor who frequently works on U.S. reconstruction projects, killing eight civilians and injuring 10. In downtown Mosul, Ninevah's capital, a morning car bomb at the site of a courthouse under construction killed three and injured 50.

Car bombs also targeted a police patrol in the town of Shirqat, southeast of Mosul, leaving four civilians dead, and an Iraqi army patrol on the highway between Mosul and Irbil. That attack injured three Iraqi soldiers. Just after dawn in Fallujah, where al Qaida has been relatively quiet for months, a dozen gunmen raided a police station and severely injured three police officers. Six gunmen were killed and five captured.

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