Al-Qaida in Iraq claims wave of attacks
By The Associated Press
This article was published March 20, 2013 at 6:51 a.m.
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BAGHDAD — An al-Qaida-affiliated group in Iraq claimed responsibility Wednesday for bloody attacks that killed dozens of people across the country a day earlier.
In a statement posted on a militant website, the Islamic State of Iraq said the car bombs and other explosions came to avenge the executions and "massacres" of convicted Sunni inmates held in Iraqi prisons.
Most of the nearly 20 attacks Tuesday, the eve of the 10th anniversary of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, targeted Shiite areas in Baghdad.
They killed 65 and wounded more than 200, demonstrating in stark terms how dangerously divided Iraq remains more than a year after American troops withdrew.
The al-Qaida statement warned the Shiite-led government to stop executing Sunni prisoners or "expect more bad events ... and seas of blood."
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BillSmith says... March 20, 2013 at 8:43 a.m.
Before Bush went in, No Al-Qaida in Iraq, now 10 years later Al-Qaida in Iraq, yet Cheny said he would do it all over again. That's leadership that can and wil and did and is kill/killing people. Jeb Bush anyone for 2016?
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KCSAP says... March 20, 2013 at 8:55 a.m.
And so your point is you would rather have had them here? Get over Bush, loserrrrrrrrrrrr.
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