At least 52 people were killed in a bloody explosion of violence across Iraq on Monday, including a spate of bombings against buses carrying people to work. The attacks underlined the parlous security situation in Iraq as agreement on the key defence and interior ministries remained elusive despite the formation of a new government on May 20.
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/ 8 December 2005
Dozens of women are rotting away, imprisoned in a former royal palace without trial or sentence, penned up in cramped cells over charges of murder, kidnap and the new Iraq nasty: terrorism. The Queen Alia palace in Baghdad, once home to the mother of King Faisal and formerly replete with gold panelling, was rebranded into a women’s prison after the fall of the Iraqi monarchy in 1958.
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/ 14 September 2005
At least 87 people were killed in Baghdad on Wednesday as 10 suicide bombings left a trail of carnage after Iraqi leaders finally completed a draft constitution in a new milestone in the political transition. United States and Iraqi officials said nearly 200 people were also wounded in the bombings.
Three car bombs exploded just minutes apart at a busy Baghdad bus station and a nearby hospital during morning rush hour on Wednesday, ripping through buses and killing at least 43 people. Iraqi authorities said the bombings were aimed at terrorising people and triggering a collapse of the government.
Iraq’s Parliament, meeting for only the second time since landmark elections two months ago, failed on Tuesday to pick a new speaker as Sunni, Shi’ite and Kurdish politicians bickered over Cabinet posts. Meanwhile, insurgents continued to cause mayhem as a car bomb exploded in the ethnically divided city of Kirkuk.