Car and truck bombs going off in several parts of Iraq since Friday have killed at least 75 people and injured scores more, as the country struggles to maintain security in the wake of US troops leaving urban areas to local police and Awakening Councils. Reports are still unclear about the magnitude of the lastest attacks, two car bombs in Baghdad and two truck bombs near Mosul Monday morning. Al Jazeera, BBC,
Posted by Ellen Wallace on 10 August 2009 at 8:50 |
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News story, GenevaLunch, 10 August 2009.
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Tags: Awakening Councils, Baghdad, bombs, dead, Iraq, killed, Mosul, police, security
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