Iraq’s parliament voted on today to extend Iraq’s state of emergency through December, but the US military warned of even worse sectarian violence after last week’s deadly insurgent attack on Shiites in Baghdad.

Beset by rampant sectarian violence, Iraq’s parliament today voted to extend the country’s state of emergency for 30 more days, and suspected Sunni-Arab insurgents set off bombs in three different areas of the country that killed eight Iraqis and wounded 40.