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Shiite Holiday Raises Fears Of More Bombings in Baghdad

With the approach of a Shiite holiday expected to bring observers to the capital, authorities worry that the recent wave of car bombings will grow.

Iraqis clean up outside a bakery after a bomb exploded on a bus nearby in Baghdad?s Shiite Sadr City district on May 28, 2013. Bombings and shootings in Iraq killed 16 people, many of them security forces members, officials said, the latest in a wave of violence that authorities are struggling to contain. AFP PHOTO/ALI AL-SAADI        (Photo credit should read ALI AL-SAADI/AFP/Getty Images)
Iraqis clean up outside a bakery after a bomb exploded on a bus nearby in Baghdad's Shiite Sadr City district on May 28, 2013. — AFP PHOTO/ALI AL-SAADI

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