BEIJING, April 30 -- Insurgents have unleashed a series of car bombings and other attacks across Iraq, killing at least 41 people, including three U.S. soldiers, and wounding dozens of people.

    The attacks came a day after the country's first democratically elected government was approved on Thursday.

    The US military said at least 11 car bombs exploded in and around Baghdad on Friday, including four suicide attacks in quick succession in the center of the city.

    Insurgents also hit Iraqi forces with a coordinated assault in the southeastern town of Madain, less than two weeks after Iraqi forces raided the region to clear it of insurgents.

    In a related development, Iraq's most-wanted militant, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, purportedly threatened more violence in an audiotape on the Internet.

    (Source: CRIENGLISH.com)