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Al-Qaeda in Iraq says it was behind Baghdad
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com News)
Submitted at 12/27/2011 6:43:42 AM
BAGHDAD (AP) – An al-Qaeda
front group in Iraq has claimed
responsibility for the wave...
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Curated News Edition http://www.
LibertyNewspost.
com- 27/12/11
Al-Qaeda in Iraq says it was behind Baghdad
blasts(USATODAY.
com News)
Submitted at 12/27/2011 6:43:42 AM
BAGHDAD (AP) – An al-Qaeda
front group in Iraq has claimed
responsibility for the wave of
attacks that ripped through
markets, cafes and government
buildings in Baghdad on a single
day last week, killing 69 people
and raising new worries about the
country s path.
By Karim Kadim, AP
Iraqi security forces and residents
gather at the scene of a car bomb
attack Thursday in Baghdad.
The coordinated attacks struck a
d o z e n m o s t l y S h i i t e
neighborhoods on Thursday in the
first major bloodshed since U.
S.
t r o o p s c o m p l e t e d a f u l l
withdrawal this month after nearly
nine years of war.
They also
coincided with a government
crisis that has again strained ties
between Iraq s Sunnis and Shiites
to the breaking point, tearing at
the same fault line that nearly
pushed Iraq into all-out civil war
several
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