Baghdad: Six car bombs exploded across Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 34 people and wounding scores, police claimed. This is in response to the arrests of Sunni Arab fighters that raised tension in the Iraqi capital.

A blast at a popular market in the Shiite Muslim slum of Sadr City in east Baghdad killed at least 10 people and wounded 65. Another car bomb blew up next to a group of labourers queuing for work, killing six people and wounding 16.

Hours later, south Baghdad's Um al-Maalif neighbourhood was shaken by two blasts in a market, killing 12 and wounding 25.

The latest attacks underscore the challenges Iraqi security forces face as U.S. Combat troops prepare to withdraw by Aug. 31 2010, with all U.S. Troops due to leave by the end of 2011.

Overall violence has fallen in Iraq to levels not seen since just-after the 2003 U.S. Invasion, but militants still carry out large-scale bombings, especially in the capital and the north.

Two other blasts shook a market area of Husseiniya, on Baghdad's northern outskirts, killing four, and a street in eastern Baghdad, apparently targeting the convoy of an Interior Ministry official, killing one of his guards and a bystander.

"The explosion caused major damage to buildings and they even hurt some children. God damn these people," shopkeeper Abdul-Jabar Saad said of that attack, which he witnessed.

The sentiments of Abdul-Jabar Saad would be shared by majority of the people. The global community will probably condemn the attacks, as they have before. Calls for accountability will be made, like before. The people on the other hand, are reduced to prayers that seem to breed more prayers. 

 

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Source : Reuters