Bombs Kill at Least 80 People in Iraq

It seems bomb attacks lately kill at least 4-5 dozen at once. I wonder if anyone has tracked the average number of deaths in Iraq since the coalition forces arrived. My guess is it's been steadily climbing.

Thunderous explosions and dense black smoke swirled through the center of Baghdad Monday when at least two car bombs - one parked in an underground garage - tore through a crowded marketplace, setting off dozens of secondary explosions and killing at least 71 people, police said. Another bombing nearby killed at least nine.

The blasts shattered the city center on the first anniversary, according to the Muslim lunar calendar, of the bombing of the important Shiite Golden Dome shrine in Samarra.

Oh yeah, if you follow the link, don't believe the next sentence after the last one above in my post. The bombing of the Shrine didn't trigger the current level of blood-letting in Iraq. That was already well underway before that bombing.

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