29 killed in wave of bombings at Iraq mosques
By Assad Abboud (AFP) – 22 hours ago BAGHDAD — A wave of bombs targeting Shiite Muslim worshippers at mosques across Baghdad killed 29 people and wounded more than 136 on Friday a month after US troops withdrew from Iraq's main urban centres. Security officials said the six apparently coordinated blasts, which were condemned by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, occurred outside mosques and prayer centres in and around the capital, including one frequented by followers of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. The most devastating attack was in the northeastern district of Al-Shaab, where a car bombing killed 23 people and wounded 107 others, an interior ministry official said. The mosque itself is occupied by Iraqi special forces, and before the bomb exploded worshippers, many of them loyal to Sadr, were praying between the building itself and the parking lot. Witnesses said worshippers had told local police of their suspicions regarding a 1980s Volkswagen Passat, but they wer