surge update - Two Baghdad Bombs Kill at Least 11

BAGHDAD — A bomb hidden beneath a pile of potatoes in a pickup truck exploded Wednesday at a crowded Baghdad market, killing at least 10 people and wounding 37 others, officials said.

A few hours later, a car bomb detonated at a gas station a few miles away in a Baghdad neighborhood, Karada, killing one person and wounding seven others.

The bombings continued a recent surge in deadly attacks aimed at Shiites, leading to fears of a new outbreak of sectarian violence as American troops prepared to leave urban areas in Iraq by the end of June.

So far, Shiites do not appear to have made any reprisal attacks, American and Iraqi security officials said.

The market bombing occurred about 7 a.m. at Al Rasheed market in Dora, a neighborhood in southern Baghdad that was once a stronghold of Sunni insurgent groups, including Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the largely homegrown organization that American intelligence officials say is led by foreigners. The area had been mostly free of violence for the past year and a half, after many insurgents joined Awakening Councils allied with American and Iraqi forces.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/world/middleeast/07iraq.html?ref=world&pagewanted=print