Al-Qaeda in Iraq says it carried out bombings

By The Newsroom
Published 28th Dec 2011, 00:00 BST
AL-QAEDA in Iraq has claimed it was behind the wave of attacks that ripped through markets, cafés and government buildings in Baghdad last week, killing 69 people

The co-ordinated attacks struck a dozen mostly Shiite areas on Thursday, in the first major bloodshed since US troops completed a full withdrawal this month, after nearly nine years.

The bombings coincided with a government crisis that has again strained ties between Iraq’s Sunnis and Shiites to breaking point.

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