Monday, July 29, 2013
It was National Car Bomb Weekend in Iraq
And the freedom loving Iraqis celebrated with an exuberance no doubt passed onto them by US troops.
The surge of violence in Iraq continued Monday when 15 car bombs killed at least 50 people and injured more than 100, according to security officials.Talk about going back to the good old days. And many were set off by the Blow Up A Shiite For Lunch Bunch, always a fun loving crew.
Ten of the bombings were in Baghdad, mainly in Shiite neighborhoods. The targets included a hospital, a restaurant and markets. At least 34 people were killed and more than 100 wounded, the authorities said.
Officials in the Shiite-led government of Prime Minister Nouri Kamal al-Maliki, fearing that even more devices could be detonated, tightened security in Baghdad. There were long lines at vehicle checkpoints as the security services searched cars for explosives.
Since the start of Ramadan on July 10, coordinated bombings and other attacks have intensified. That has revived fears that Iraq could return to the levels of sectarian violence seen over the last decade, after the American-led invasion in 2003.
While the violence is below the levels of the peak of the insurgency in 2006 and 2007, when the country moved to the brink of civil war, bombings remain common, and as many as 700 people are believed to have been killed this month.
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