Suicide blasts kill 26 at Iraqi state-sector bank

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Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - Suicide car bombers attacked the Trade Bank of Iraq Sunday, killing at least 26 people, an Interior Ministry source said.


The blasts wounded 53 people at one of the public sector's most active financial institutions, which is at the forefront of efforts to encourage foreign investment in Iraq as the sectarian violence that followed the 2003 U.S.-led invasion fades.

They underscored fears of increasing violence as militants try to exploit the political vacuum that followed the March 7 election which produced no outright winner.

A week earlier, gunmen and suicide bombers laid siege to Iraq's central bank in Baghdad, killing 18 people.

Baghdad security spokesman Major General Qassim al-Moussawi said two cars packed with around 80 kilograms of explosives each were driven at the main gates of the Trade Bank of Iraq and detonated on striking blastwalls protecting the building.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65J0L920100620

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Hardly anyone notices this little bit of hell anymore. Sure am glad the surge worked. Just like a trip to the dentist, you never know what will happen. Success is just around the corner. Up is down, War is peace.

[Botany]

1. as noted in the o.p. "glad the surge worked"

I have heard and read that it is not a matter of if Iraq will have a civil war
but when will it happen.