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Iraqi Officials Blame Al-Qaida for Deadliest Day of Attacks This Year

   VOA News 11 May 2010
   An  Iraqi  man  walks  through  rubble  at  the site of a bombing that
   targeted police in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, Iraq, 10 May 2010

Photo: AP

   An  Iraqi  man  walks  through  rubble  at  the site of a bombing that
   targeted police in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, Iraq, 10 May 2010

   Iraqi  officials have blamed militants linked to al-Qaida for a series
   of  attacks  across Iraq Monday that killed at least 110 people in the
   country's worst day of violence this year.
   There  has  been  no official claim of responsibility for the bombings
   and  shootings  in  nine  Iraqi  cities  and  towns  that also wounded
   hundreds of people.
   Iraq's Deputy Interior Minister Hussein Ali Kamal acknowledged Tuesday
   that  lapses  by  Iraqi  security  forces  may have contributed to the
   carnage.
   The  deadliest  of  Monday's  attacks  took  place  in Hilla, south of
   Baghdad.   Hospital  officials say at least 50 people were killed and
   140  wounded  in blasts outside a textile factory. Elsewhere, at least
   25 people were killed in three bombings in the southern city of Basra.
   A  U.S.  military  official who oversees operations in eastern Baghdad
   told the Associated Press that the complexity of the attacks indicates
   they were coordinated.
   In Baghdad Monday, gunmen killed seven Iraqi soldiers and policemen in
   attacks  on  checkpoints.   In  the  town  of  Suwayra,  south of the
   capital, 13 people were killed in a double bombing.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.

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