BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) Militants targeted police recruits and shoppers rounding up the end of the Ramadan holy month, the highlight of the the country.
The U.S.
military announced the deaths of a Marine and four soldiers, raising to 83 the number of American this year. The pace of U.S.
deaths could make October the deadliest month in two years.
Three soldiers were killed Sunday, two by small arms fire Baghdad, the military said. On Saturday, a Marine was killed died in fighting in Salahuddin province.
"There will be no holiday in Iraq," said Abu Marwa, phone shop in the capital. "Anyone who says otherwise is a liar."
In Sunday's bloodiest attack, gunmen in five sedans city of Baqouba 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, killing at least 15 and wounding 25 others, said provincial police home after an induction ceremony at a police base south of Baqouba.
bakery packed with holiday shoppers, killing at least nine people and injuring dozens, police said. The attack came a outdoor market killed 19 and wounded scores in Mahmoudiyah, just south of the capital.
militiamen for the attack in Mahmoudiyah, 20 miles south of had killed 1,000 residents in the town since the start of the year.
tactics to contain the bloodshed ahead of the U.S. midterm ability to come to grips with the rising bloodshed.
Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., chairman of the Senate Foreign may not work because he does not have much clout.
"We keep saying, 'Go to your Shiites and get them straightened out, or the Sunnis, or divide the oil.' And al-Maliki is saying, 'There isn't any group here that wants to talk about those things,'" Lugar said.
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