Dozens killed in Baghdad blasts

Adding to a series of bombings in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Thursday, two more bombs exploded in the evening, according to Reuters news agency.

Targeting mainly Shia areas, a wave of 12 bombings across Baghdad during the early hours of the morning killed at least 63 people and injured 176.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks as yet.

But, following the withdrawal of US troops, sectarian tensions, which could bring down the unity government, have already been under the spotlight.

Al Jazeera's Omar al Saleh reports from Baghdad.

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[ChaldeanBabylonia]

@SearchAndBuild Bush is more evil than Saddam. bush is biggest war criminal in the world. americans try to justify the war by always mentioning how saddam was bad.

[sheyon1000]

@2JAMMY Looks like the stabilisation of iraq has failed whether or not these attacks were deliberate by the cia or not..this military industrial complex really is a huge fucking monster feeding on sovereign nations to keep it fueled..Americans need to rise up to a revolution and kill the monster and stop fighting wars for israel..Are u voting ron paul in the next election good sir?! that would be the first step towards the hard task to repair america from the damage that has been done to it..

[2JAMMY]

@sheyon1000 We are seriously fucked - with the likes of the CIA running the establishment we ain't got a chance in hell. They keep telling us how lucky we are to have democracy. Dead food, dead water, chem trails to the eyeballs & we should jump for joy at our wonderful health promoting pills from big pharma. Yeah Mr I'm sick of the whole shit too. Grasping for the last positives - If I see you on the other side I'll buy you a nice cold refreshing beer, providing it's allowed :):):)

[MrIFUCKWAHABIS]

fuck hashimi!!!!

[NewWorldFreedomFight]

The globalist are at fault

[Hughganaught]

WE shoulda never invaded, Saddam should still be in power. The world would be better off.

[sheyon1000]

@2JAMMY another false flag attack its so fucking obvios..these bpmbings are all sponsored by the cia cause al kaida is cia's boogie man!Really sick and tired of this fucking game.

[HenryDavidT]

This is what sociologists called social anomie: it is a time of great change and most of it is chaotic.

From a repressive regime --- which clamped down on Liberals, religious groups, & political opponents --- America's invasion opened the lid and now Iraq is going to suffer even more, for a few decades, before political and juridical institutions can extend their dominions; otherwise, it will revert back to a totalitarian, but with Islam being the dictator (thus, a theocracy, like Iran).

[6gatornation]

The Arab spring started late in Iraq. Every thing that the US troops tried to do the past 10 years is fixing to go down the toilet. Soldiers killed and wounded for nothing.

[2JAMMY]

Prolly sponsored by CIA so they can say 'See! We need to be here'. Funnily enough Iran is in between Iraq & Afghanistan. If they should leave either of those countries they lose a strategic position in their future war with Iran. You mussta come down in the last shower if you think they give a shit about looking after any people - it's all about strategy & power - old Machiavelli wasn't joking.