Blast Rocks Baghdad After Day Of Carnage
Bombs ravaged Baghdad in five horrific explosions aimed mainly at Shiite crowds on Wednesday, killing at least 171 people in the deadliest day in the capital since the American-led security plan for the city took effect two months ago.
Another suicide car bomber killed 10 more people in a religiously mixed neighborhood today. The wave of attacks, five of them involving car bombs, took place as Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki declared that the Iraqi government planned to take full control of security from the American-led forces before the end of the year.
The New York Times | KIRK SEMPLE | April 19, 2007 08:24 AM