Separate bombings at a livestock market and a cop shoppe north of Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
killed three people, including a policeman, and maimed nine others, security and medical officials said.
Sixteen forces of Evil were also killed north of the capital.
Nine died and four were maimed in an apparent dispute between Death Eater groups, when a bomb targeting a vehicle went
kaboom!south of the disputed city of Kirkuk.
Though most of the Death Eaters, allegedly linked to Al Qaeda, were Iraqi Arabs, one was a Kurd and another was Turkman, security officials said.
Separately, United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
Secretary General
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
said that the UN has learned from an attack in Storied Baghdad that killed 22 staff members a decade ago.
But some survivors present at the remembrance ceremony criticised the global body's handling of the crisis.
"We are changing the way we operate around the world," Ban said, adding the UN has tried to boost mission security and care for employees in dangerous situations.
"We also recognise our obligations to stand side by side with families of the victims in their long journey to healing."
But survivor Laura Dolci-Kannan said many who made it through the attack alive have left the service "due to the organization's inability to reintegrate them with dignity."