Ramadan rampage sees 40 die

The feared Ramadan rampage was launched in Baghdad today but on a scale that the American occupiers had not expected and not seen since major combat was declared over in May.

Suicide car bombers struck the International Red Cross headquarters and four police stations in co-ordinated attacks across the Iraqi capital, killing about 40 people in a spree of destruction that terrorised the city on the first day of the Muslim holy month.