Civil war warning after Iraq bomb kills 67

Iraq’s interim prime minister warned that insurgents are trying to foment sectarian civil war as well as derail elections, while thousands of mourners turned out for funerals in the Shiite holy cities of Najaf and Karbala a day after car bombs killed 67 people.

Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said the mainly Sunni Muslim insurgents, blamed for Sunday’s bloody attacks, want to ”create ethnic and religious tensions, problems and conflicts … to destroy the unity of this country”.