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NYTBAGHDAD — A series of bombings on Friday struck mosques, a market and a shop in Baghdad, as well as the homes of a prosecutor and police officers in western Iraq on Friday, killing dozens, only five days after a joint Iraqi-American raid killed the country’s top two leaders of Al Qaeda.
Iraq’s leaders had hailed the killings early Sunday as a devastating blow to the group but warned that retaliation was almost certain to come. It was not clear that Al Qaeda in Iraq, also known as Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, was behind the latest jolt of violence.
The attacks were the worst of an intermittent wave of bombings since the country’s parliamentary election on March 7, providing a violent backdrop to stalled efforts to finalize the results of the vote and begin to form a new government.
According to preliminary accounts by the Ministry of the Interior, 12 bombs — including car bombs and improvised explosive devices, but not suicide bombers, an Al Qaeda hallmark — killed at least 50 people in Baghdad and wounded more than 100. In Anbar, the sprawling Sunni province to the west, 7 people died when a series of explosions struck houses in a small village.
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