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Scores killed in Baghdad attacks
(BBC NEWS, 14 September 2005)
More than 150 people have been killed and hundreds injured in a series of bomb attacks and shootings across Iraq. . . . In the worst incident, at least 114 people were killed and 160 injured when a car bomb exploded in Baghdad's mainly Shia district of Kadhimiya. . . . During the night, gunmen killed 17 people in the nearby town of Taji after dragging them from their homes. . . . Al-Qaeda in Iraq claimed it had begun a nationwide bombing campaign to avenge a recent major offensive on rebels. . . . In a statement on a website, the group said it acted after US and Iraqi forces attacked insurgents in the northern town of Talafar. . . . Wednesday became one of the deadliest days in Iraq since the US-led invasion in March 2003. . . . The attacks once again showed the limits of military might as a solution to the insurgency, the BBC's Rob Watson says. . . . When under military pressure in one part of Iraq, the insurgents simply strike elsewhere, our defence and security correspondent says. . . . The attacks came as a final draft of the Iraqi constitution was handed to the UN. . . . A suicide bomber drove his car at 0630 (0230 GMT) into queues of labourers who had gathered on Oruba Square in Kadhimiya, Iraqi police spokesman Maj Musa Abdel Kerim said. . . . The BBC's Richard Galpin in Baghdad says that every day large numbers of construction workers gather in the square in the north of the city to be picked up by their employers. . . . According to some reports the attacker lured the workers towards the vehicle before detonating the bomb. . . . "We gathered and suddenly a car blew up and turned the area into fire and dust and darkness," one of the workers, a man named Hadi, told Reuters news agency. . . . The shootings in Taji took place a few hours before the bomb attack in Oruba Square. . . . The victims, said to be civilians, were shot dead in execution-style killings. . . . According to an interior ministry official quoted by AFP news agency, the attackers in Taji, 15km (nine miles) north of Baghdad, arrived in the town in "military vehicles" dressed as soldiers, gathered several people in a square and shot them. . . . Witnesses said the victims were Shias. Hours later in the same town gunmen are reported to have opened fire on a group of Sunni Muslims at a market, killing six. . . . There have been frequent sectarian killings in Baghdad and central Iraq as mainly Sunni insurgents seek to incite fear and hatred between the Muslim communities.

posted by LoZo 7:25 AM