In other incidents, five people died in mostly Shiite areas of Baghdad on Wednesday.

CNN: Dozens killed in attacks in Iraq

An additional 312 people were injured in the attacks mostly aimed at Shiite pilgrims trekking and driving to a shrine in Baghdad.

CNN: 5 killed in attacks in Iraq

The attacks -- 17 car bombs, seven roadside bombs, and two shootings -- ripped mostly through Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad, but also struck Sunni communities in other towns.

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BAGHDAD A barrage of car bombings in mostly Shiite areas across Iraq killed scores of people on Monday, in one of the country's deadliest weeks since a sectarian civil war raged in 2006 and 2007.

WSJ: Violence Kills Scores in Iraq

The attacks in Baghdad, which numbered at least 15 and involved mostly car bombs and improvised explosive devices, started at about 6:30 a.m. local time and lasted for about two hours, according to an official with the Ministry of Interior and the special security task force for the capital.

WSJ: Explosions Rock Baghdad

Until Sunday's huge suicide-bombing outside America's main base in Baghdad which killed more than 20 people, mostly Iraqis things had begun to look more promising for America's Iraqi adventure.

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The Fallujah assault followed a weekend of extreme violence around the country, including the deaths of 34 people, mostly Iraqi policemen, in a series of co-ordinated bombings in Samarra, north of Baghdad.

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Its lobby in Europe is much exercised by recent statements of Muwafaq al-Rubaie, Iraq's national security adviser, who makes it plain he wants the camp disbanded and its people sent abroad, mostly to Iran, whose rulers have become more vociferous in calling its fellow reigning Shias in Baghdad to send them back.

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There is a lingering, and mostly erroneous, view that British soldiers are enjoying a soft war in Basra possibly the consequence of Baghdad being so dangerous that journalists dare not venture out.

ECONOMIST: British troops face fiercer fights in Iraq