Wave of deadly bombings in Iraq

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Wave of deadly bombings in Iraq

More than 30 people have been killed and dozens injured in a series of bomb attacks across Iraq.

There have been several blasts in Baghdad, including one in which 15 people died. At least 15 were killed in a suicide attack in Kut in the south. One person was killed by a car bomb in Kirkuk, and there were explosions in Basra, Ramadi and Karbala.

The violence comes ahead of the withdrawal of US combat troops at end of the month.

In Baghdad, a suicide car bomb hit a police station in the north-east of the city, killing 15 people, with 58 injured, most of them police, while a parked car bomb in the centre of the city near the Muthana Airport Highway killed two people and injured seven.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11081603

Some group wants us to stay in Iraq, probably to help them recruit by our presence there.

The New York Times says:

American and Iraqi officials say that overall violence in Iraq has fallen significantly since the height of the sectarian killings in 2006 and 2007. However, the threat of escalating violence is one of the factors that may determine if all American forces can be withdrawn from the country on schedule by the current deadline of Dec. 2011.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/world/middleeast/26iraq.html?ref=global-home