Wave of bombings across pre-election Baghdad

Insurgents unleashed a wave of five car bombings across the capital, killing about a dozen people, despite stepped-up US and Iraqi measures to protect this month’s elections.

Wave of bombings across pre-election Baghdad

Insurgents unleashed a wave of five car bombings across the capital, killing about a dozen people, despite stepped-up US and Iraqi measures to protect this month’s elections. North of Baghdad, insurgents killed a British security officer.

Iraqi police also said insurgents kidnapped a Japanese engineer, but on Thursday officials in Tokyo cast doubt on the report, saying they had no information on the incident.

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