Insurgents’ defiance of efforts by U.S. and Iraqi forces to stabilise Baghdad persisted on Sunday with a series of car bombs and rocket attacks. In a bold challenge to the security crackdown in the capital, regarded as a last chance to reverse Iraq’s descent into civil war, gunmen had stormed an Iraqi police checkpoint near Baghdad airport on Saturday, killing eight policemen.On Sunday, rockets and mortar bombs crashed into a market in a Shi’ite area in southern Baghdad and there were conflicting reports about casualties, police said. Full Story
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