Baghdad Bombings: More Than 30 Killed, Dozens Wounded In New Wave Of Attacks

[cali]

A wave of car bombs hit the Iraqi capital on Thursday, killing 33 people and wounding dozens, the latest attacks in a months-long surge in violence.

Attacks have been on the rise in Iraq since a deadly security crackdown in April on a Sunni protest camp. More than 3,000 people have been killed in violence during the past few months, raising fears Iraq could see a new round of widespread sectarian bloodshed similar to that which brought the country to the edge of civil war in 2006 and 2007.

In the deadliest of the blasts across Baghdad, police said one car bomb struck near a bus station in the northern Shiite neighborhood of Khazimiyah, killing eight people and wounding 18 there.

Another car bomb exploded near a gathering of daily laborers in the Allawi area near the fortified Green Zone where government offices are located, killing six people and wounding 13. In eastern Baghdad, seven people were killed and 15 others were wounded when a car bomb went off near a traffic police office in Baladiyat neighborhood.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/15/baghdad-bombings_n_3759763.html

[Johonny]

1. Don't worry The insurgency is in the last throes

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. Didn't Hillary use similar words when she was embracing Bush's war?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/25/world/middleeast/25diplo.html?_r=0

She characterized the latest bout of violence as the last gasp of “rejectionists” who fear that the government will succeed in creating a united and peaceful Iraq. The suicide bombings, she said, are “in an unfortunately tragic way, a signal that the rejectionists fear that Iraq is going in the right direction.”

“Are there going to be bad days? Yes, there are,” Mrs. Clinton said. But she added, “If you look at the evidence, overwhelmingly the progress that’s been made has been positive.”

The Obama administration, she said, was determined to help Iraq achieve “stability, sovereignty, and self-reliance,” as the United States prepares to pull out the last of its troops by the end of 2011.

At times, her analysis almost echoed that of former Vice President Dick Cheney and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. When the sectarian violence was relentless several years ago, Mr. Cheney spoke of the insurgency being in its “last throes,” while Mr. Rumsfeld talked of “dead-enders” who kept fighting a lost cause.