Militants strike against secutiry clampdown

Militants struck back in their first major blow against a US-led security clampdown in Baghdad with car bombings that killed at least 63 people and left scores injured.

Yesterday’s attacks in mostly Shiite areas – twin explosions in an open-air market that claimed 62 lives and a third blast that killed one – were a sobering reminder of the challenges confronting any effort to rattle the well-armed and well-hidden insurgents.