Reply #30: Update - At least 136 Killed [View All]

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At least 136 people have been killed in a wave of violence in and around Baghdad today.

The deadliest in a series of attacks saw more than 100 people murdered by a suicide bomber who blew up a minibus in a crowd of labourers.

A claim of responsibility was later made on the internet by the Sunni militant group al-Qaida in Iraq.

The statement said the organisation, led by the Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was waging a nationwide suicide bombing campaign to avenge a US and Iraqi military offensive against rebels, thought to refer to an ongoing counter-insurgency operation in the north of Iraq.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1569667,00.html