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Hours earlier, a car bomb exploded outside a Shiite mosque south of Baghdad just after prayers, wounding 20 worshippers as they were leaving, a local police official said. The car bomb was parked just 10 yards from the front door of the mosque, the official said. There was no security around the building because it was under construction. It was, however, still being used by worshippers. The officials all spoke on condition of anonyimty because they were not authorized to speak to the media. As is often the case in Iraq, there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombings, but the style and targets are similar to past al-Qaida attacks. Abu Suleiman promised to "continue the path of jihad" and said his warriors had already begun "a new campaign of attacks on security and military checkpoints in Baghdad and elsewhere." During Monday's attacks, violence in Baghdad consisted mainly of early morning strikes against security checkpoints,
killing nearly a dozen police and military officials.
[Associated
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