Sepcial Report:Tension accelerates in Iraq

    

The wreckage of a car used in a car bomb attack targeting a police patrol lies on a road in Baghdad August 31, 2006.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Photo Gallery >>>

BAGHDAD, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- The death toll in a series of bombings, including one at a popular market, in eastern Baghdad on Thursday rose to 43, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua. A total of 160 people were wounded in the attacks.

    A car bomb ripped through a market in al-Ameen district in eastern Baghdad shortly after 7:00 p.m. (1500 GMT), the source said on condition of anonymity, adding several shops and cars were also damaged.

    Within minutes, another car bomb hit al-Baladeat district and two mortar rounds hit buildings in al-Qahera district, the source said, adding a roadside bomb detonated in another neighborhood in eastern Baghdad.

    Earlier, the source said that three bombings rocked two districts in eastern Baghdad, leaving 19 people dead and 68 wounded.

    The deadly attacks came one day after a wave of violence across Iraq killed at least 38 people and wounded more than 80 others. The surging violence in Baghdad and other cities is seen as a major setback for the government's efforts to restore calm. Enditem

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A man is looking at the destroyed car in Baghdad August 30, 2006. A bomb exploded in a central Baghdad market killing 24 people and wounding 45, police and Interior Ministry sources said. The Shorja wholesale market in Bab al-Sharji district is often very crowded and has been targeted before.(Xinhua/AFP Photo) Photo Gallery >>>

    BEIJING, Aug. 30 (Xinhuanet) -- A string of bombings killed over 40 people, and wounded more than 100 others in Iraq on Wednesday morning, according to media reports.

    Bombing attacks targeted a market, an army recruiting center and a police patrol respectively.

    In central Baghdad, at least 24 Iraqis were killed and 45 more were wounded in the attack on the Shorja wholesale market, police said.

    An hour later, a car bomb exploded near a busy fuel station in the nearby Karrada district, Baghdad, killing two and wounding 21 others, including five police officers, emergency officials said.

    Another bomb in the same area near Andalus Square detonated minutes later as rescue workers arrived to assist the wounded. Full story>>

Bush vows U.S. not to leave Iraq before "job" is done

    WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President George W. Bush said Thursday that U.S. troops will not leave Iraq until the "job" is done in the Middle East country.

    "The war we fight today is more than a military conflict," Bush said at the annual national convention of the American Legion, a veterans' group, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Full story>>