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Deadly Car Bombs Hit Baghdad

by Rachel Nixon | April 6, 2009 at 08:39 am

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Six car bombs have exploded in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, killing at least 34 people and wounding more than 100 others.

A blast at a popular market in the Shi'ite Muslim slum of Sadr City in east Baghdad killed at least 10 people and wounded 65. Another car bomb blew up next to a group of labourers queuing for work, killing six people and wounding 16.

Hours later, south Baghdad's Um al-Maalif neighbourhood was shaken by two blasts in a market, killing 12 and wounding 25.

Amongst other attacks, a car bomb missed the convoy of an interior ministry official but killed two bystanders in the New Baghdad neighbourhood. And another blast shook a market area of Husseiniya in the north of the capital.

Violence has dropped sharply in Iraq to levels not seen since the US-led invasion in March 2003, but armed groups still strike with often fatal results. Some 250 Iraqis are reported to have been killed in March.

The attacks came after Iraqi forces last week put down an uprising by members of a so-called Awakening Council group in Baghdad angry over the arrest of their commander.

It is not clear if Monday's attacks were connected.

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car1edb

at 09:17 on April 6th, 2009

Getting on for 300/month dead (still)?

- And they make you believe that all is well over there now - handing back power after putting in their hand picked government in place, so western companies can come and take rights of oil fields.

Still must move on to the next theatre.

car1edb

at 12:40 on April 6th, 2009

Looks like it could go that way, think they're gonna find their old friend osama? or the fact that "as much as one-third of Afghanistan's GDP comes from growing poppy and illicit drugs including opium and its two derivatives, morphine and heroin, as well as hashish production.[1]Opium production in Afghanistan has soared to a new record in 2007, with an increase on last year of more than a third, the United Nations has said.[82"

And seems like they want to play off India and Pakistan against each other then kick off a fight, so they can wade in and "fix"/control the area.

new middle east map? -maybe the whole area will be redrawn in the next decade or so.