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Bomb, gun attacks kill 107 in Iraq

Reuters, Baghdad
At least 107 people were killed in bomb and gun attacks in Iraq yesterday in a coordinated surge of violence against mostly Shia Muslim targets.
As well as the scores of deaths, at least 268 people were wounded by bombings and shootings in Shia areas of Baghdad, the Shia town of Taji to the north, the
northern cities of Kirkuk and Mosul and many other places, hospital and police sources said.
No group has claimed responsibility for the wave of assaults but a senior Iraqi security official blamed the local wing of al-Qaeda, made up of Sunni Muslim militants bitterly hostile to the Shia-led government, which is friendly with Iran. "Recent attacks are a clear message that al-Qaeda in Iraq is determined to spark a bloody sectarian war," the official said, asking not to be named.
"With what's going on in Syria, these attacks should be taken seriously as a potential threat to our country. Al Qaeda is trying to push Iraq to the verge of Shia-Sunni war," he said. "They want things to be as bad as in Syria."
Gunmen using assault rifles and hand grenades killed at least 16 soldiers in an attack on an army post near Dhuluiya, 70 km north of Baghdad, police and army sources said.
In Taji, 20 km north of Baghdad, six explosions, including a car bombing, occurred near a housing complex. A seventh blast there caused carnage among police who had arrived at the scene of the earlier ones. In all, 32 people were killed, including 14 police, with 48 wounded, 10 of them police.
Two car bombs struck near a government building in Sadr City, a vast, poor Shia swathe of Baghdad, and in the mainly Shia area of Hussainiya on the outskirts of the capital, killing a total of 21 people and wounding73, policesaid.
Nine people, including six soldiers, were killed in attacks in the northern city of Mosul, police and army sources said.
In Kirkuk, five car bombs killed six people and wounded 17, while explosions and gun attacks on security checkpoints around the restive province of Diyala killed six people, including four soldiers and policemen, and wounded 30, police sourcessaid.
Other deadly attacks occurred in the towns of Kiran Bani Saad, Udhaim, Tuz Khurmato, Samarra and Dujail, all north of Baghdad, as well as in the southern city ofDiwaniya.
The orchestrated spate of violence followed car bombs on Sunday in two towns south of Baghdad and in the Shia shrine city of Najaf that killed 20 people and wounded 80.
The last two days of attacks shattered a two-week lull in violence in the run-up to the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, which started in Iraq on Saturday.