Wave of attacks kills 71 in Iraq

By artappraiser on Sun, 09/09/2012 - 2:59pm |

By Salman Faraj, Agence France Presse, Sept. 9, 2012

BAGHDAD — A wave of more than 25 attacks across Iraq killed 71 people and wounded more than 350 on Saturday and Sunday, security and medical sources said, with the security forces and markets among the targets.

The latest violence brings the number of people killed already this month to 101, according to an AFP tally.

While insurgents opposed to the Baghdad government are regarded as weaker than in past years, they are still capable of launching periodic mass-casualty attacks across the country.

The latest attacks came as Iraq's Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, a leading Sunni, was sentenced in absentia on Sunday to hang for murder, although the carnage began hours before the sentence was handed down [....]

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