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Baghdad bombs kill 11, vehicle ban in Anbar region
Tue Jul 21, 2009 10:22am EDT
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bombs exploded across Baghdad on Tuesday, killing 11 people and wounding dozens, including two blasts that shook the crowded Shi'ite slum of Sadr City, security officials said.
And in Iraq's usually quiet Anbar province, the country's largest, a rare two-day vehicle ban was imposed across the vast desert region after bombings in the provincial capital Ramadi.
The first Sadr City bomb, apparently targeting casual laborers, killed four people and left 39 wounded, said Baghdad security spokesman Qassim al-Moussawi.
Another bomb in the same area, in the capital's east, killed three civilians and wounded 15. The slum was once a haven for gunmen loyal to anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, but the militia has now been disbanded.
U.S. combat troops pulled out of Iraqi cities and towns on June 30, implementing the first stage of a security pact that requires all troops to leave by the end of 2012, raising doubts about whether Iraqi forces are ready to handle security.
A roadside bomb killed two civilians and wounded 13 others all from the same extended family as they made their way to a funeral in central Baghdad on Tuesday. And a car bomb exploded near a vegetable market, killing two civilians and wounding six others in south Baghdad's Doura district, police said.
Many Iraqis doubt whether their own forces can protect them against militants without backing from U.S. firepower.
But in an interview with Reuters on Monday, the commander of Iraqi forces in Baghdad, Major-General Abboud Qanbar, said he had not once had to call on U.S. troops now stationed on the city's outskirts to help keep security.
A major Shi'ite pilgrimage that drew millions to the Baghdad district of Khadhimiya, a favorite past target of Sunni Islamist militants, went by without any major bomb attacks over the weekend, he said.
"LAST CHANCE"
Militants are likely to step up attacks to test Iraqi security forces ahead of national elections scheduled for January, officials say. Some politicians will try to intimidate rivals or show the government is failing on security by backing militant groups who plant bombs, Qanbar said.
"This year is such an important year: it is the last chance for the enemy," he said.
"This is also an election year. Politicians will use attacks to try to gain advantage over rivals," he added.
Officials declared a state of emergency in Ramadi and police said a province-wide vehicle ban had been imposed after two bomb attacks on Tuesday, a day after an explosion in the usually quiet city killed two policemen.
A suicide bomber in a moving car and a bomb in a parked car detonated near-simultaneously near a group of restaurants, killing three people, police said. Continued...
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