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Bombs across Baghdad kill at least 15, clashes continue in Anbar
[Al Ahram] Bombs went kaboom! across the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, killing at least 15 people, police and medical sources said, a day after police broke up a Sunni Moslem protest camp in a western province.

No group immediately grabbed credit for any of Tuesday's attacks but al Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate, which was forced underground in 2006-07, has reemerged this year, invigorated by civil war in Syria and Sunni resentment at home.

In the deadliest attack in Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
, seven people were killed when two boom-mobiles hit the Shi'ite neighbourhood of Zafaraniya.

In southeastern Storied Baghdad, three mortar rounds landed near a housing complex, killing four people, medics and police sources said.

A bomb attached to a truck killed the driver and one passenger in the mainly Shi'ite district of Basateen in northern Storied Baghdad and gunnies rubbed out one policeman and maimed another in southern part of the capital, police said.

Police and local officials in western Ramadi in Anbar said festivities between gunnies and security forces are still continuing inside the city on Tuesday.

Posted by: Fred 2014-01-01
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