Suicide bombings in Iraq kill 10 and injure 120
BAGHDAD — Al Qaeda in Iraq’s new leader warned Shi’ites yesterday that “dark days soaked with blood’’ lie ahead and that a new campaign of attacks was underway.
Later yesterday, three suicide bombers blew themselves up at a sports field in a predominantly Shi’ite town in northern Iraq, killing at least 10 people and wounding 120 others, police and hospital officials said.
Days before the warning, Iraq was racked by the worst attack this year, a series of coordinated bombings and assassinations that killed 119 people — most of them Shi’ites and members of the security forces — across 10 cities.
The Iraqi insurgent umbrella group, the Islamic State of Iraq, named al-Nasser Lideen Allah Abu Suleiman as its new minister of war, replacing the Egyptian Abu Ayyub al-Masri, killed in a US-Iraqi military strike on a safe house in April. The ISI counts Al Qaeda as one of its member groups.
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