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Monday's attack was the deadliest in Iraq since March 5, when assailants waving the battle flag of al-Qaida gunned down 25 policemen in the western Iraqi town of Haditha. Last week, a string of bombings killed 17 people in Baghdad and one in the northern town of Mosul. The violence is adding to Iraq's sense of instability. A unity government headed by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite, has been largely paralyzed since the withdrawal of the U.S. troops in December. There is mounting criticism of al-Maliki within the ruling coalition over complaints that he is shutting out Iraq's two main minorities
-- Kurds and Sunni Muslims -- in decision-making. However, his opponents appear to fall short of a needed majority in parliament to bring down him down.
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