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...Baghdad A Bloody August The chaos of Iraq's recent past has returned to parts of the country. Since Aug. 1, bombings have killed more than 150 people, many of them Shi'ites in Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul. The attacks represent the worst violence since U.S. forces withdrew from Iraq's cities on June 30 and mark the end of a period of declining bloodshed. So far, Shi'ites have resisted anti-Sunni reprisals...
There are no quiet days in Iraq, but people had been hopeful. Things certainly seemed to be better than just two years ago, even if there really wasn't any calm. The air was full of sandstorms and anticipation. The village-crushing bombs outside Mosul were disturbing but not daily occurrences. Then roadside bombs started injuring civilians again, and reports started accumulating of more and more shooting. In Baghdad, the bombs started getting bigger. And then on Wednesday, a series of explosions rocked the capital, including an enormous explosion in front of the Foreign Ministry, which lies close...
...from the country in 2011. U.S. officials have warned that insurgents would try to sneak in parting shots. And the shots have been explosively loud. Early Monday morning, simultaneous truck bombs killed more than 30 people, injured more than 130 and demolished dozens of homes in a village near Mosul where the residents belong to the Shabak religious minority; 44 were killed on Aug. 7 in a suicide truck bombing outside a Shi'ite Turkoman village in the same area. The attacks are in Kurdish-controlled areas of Mosul and appear to be aimed at straining the already tenuous peace...
...With reporting by Nizar Latif and Eman Hamed / Baghdad and Serage Malik / Mosul...
This week, al-Maliki's administration reiterated its call for U.S. forces to adhere to a withdrawal schedule that would take U.S. troops off the streets of Iraq entirely by June, despite the suggestion from some U.S. commanders that they may be needed in restive areas such as Mosul and Diyala province. After July, U.S. forces will presumably remain in significant numbers at bases outside urban areas and continue to offer support to the Iraqi army and police for the foreseeable future. That arrangement risks leaving U.S. troops providing military support to Iraqi security forces...