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                More Than 50 Killed in Wave of Baghdad Bombings

   by Reuters

   A wave of bombs exploded in markets in mainly Shi'ite neighborhoods
   across Baghdad on Monday, killing more than 50 people in the latest
   attacks to increase fears Iraq risks sliding back into broad sectarian
   conflict.

   While no group claimed Monday's blasts, Sunni Muslim Islamist
   insurgents and al-Qaeda' s Iraqi wing have increased attacks since the
   beginning of the year and often target Shi'ite districts to try to
   trigger wider confrontation.

   At least 11 blasts tore into busy markets and shopping areas in
   districts across the Iraqi capital, including twin bombs just several
   hundred meters apart that killed at least 13 people in the Sadr City
   area, police and hospital officials said.

   Bombings on Shi'ite and Sunni mosques, security forces and Sunni tribal
   leaders over a month-long surge in violence are deepening worries Iraq
   may tip back into the kind of widescale Shi'ite against Sunni slaughter
   that killed thousands in 2006-2007.

   Tensions between the Shi'ite leadership and the country's Sunni Muslim
   minority are at their worst since American troops left in December
   2011, and the conflict in Syria is also straining Iraq's fragile
   communal balance.
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