Bomb kills 22 as Iraqi leader shuns US calls for unity

A CAR BOMB killed at least 22 people in Baghdad yesterday, hours after Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari angrily dismissed US warnings to shun sectarianism in the country’s new government.

The blast in the southern Dora district, the bloodiest in about six weeks, also wounded at least 27 people, one day after three bombings killed 19 people, breaking a relative lull in guerrilla violence.

Iraq was counting mass casualties again as US and British officials pressed its leaders to form a national unity government that can ease sectarian violence.