Car bombs across Iraqi capital kill nearly 60 people

[Eugene]

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Source: Reuters

By Kareem Raheem
BAGHDAD | Tue Sep 3, 2013 5:27pm EDT

(Reuters) - A series of car bombs exploded across the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, killing nearly 60 people in predominantly Shi'ite districts, police and medics said.

It was not immediately clear who had carried out the attacks, which appeared coordinated, but Sunni Islamist militants, including an al Qaeda affiliate, have been striking with a ferocity not seen in years.

More than two years of civil war in neighboring Syria have aggravated deep-rooted sectarian divisions in Iraq, fraying an uneasy government coalition of Shi'ite, Sunni and ethnic Kurdish factions.

Tuesday's deadliest single blast took place in Baghdad's northern Talbiya neighborhood, where a car bomb in a busy street killed nine people.

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Original Reuters headline: Car bombs across Iraqi capital kill 36 people

[David Krout]

1. Is the USA going to allow innocent people to be massacred in Iraq daily?

Are we going to defend innocent people from one country and not another?

[jakeXT]

2. Freedom fighters / nt

[musical_soul]

6. Civilian killers.

Not that the Shiites are that great, but it's clear the insurgents don't value life.

[Comrade Grumpy]

3. These are the same sectarian battle lines as in Syria...

...and Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan.

It's intra-umma conflict.

[durablend]

4. So when are we invading again? n/t

[ConcernedCanuk]

7. After Syria

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PNAC/MIC are just getting into position.

Gonna be much tougher this time -

Russia and Iran are pissed off,

China is watching;

closely.

CC

[Purveyor]

5. Another 'great american' success story...indeed.