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Mustafa al-Kadhimi

Mustafa al-Kadhimi

Oct 21, 2013

A man walks past the site of a car bomb attack outside an ice cream parlour in the Al-Mashtal district in Baghdad, October 19, 2013. At least five people were killed in the attack and 15 others were wounded, police said. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTX14GKJ — A man walks past the site of a car bomb attack outside an ice cream parlor in the Al-Mashtal district in Baghdad, Oct. 19, 2013. — REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani

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There are no official Iraqi statistics about the number of bomb-rigged cars that have exploded since the beginning of this year.

It all seems very confusing when you ask the Iraqi Interior Ministry for a detailed count of the number of car bombs, and receive a reply from the ministry’s spokesman that “the number is confidential and obtaining it necessitates a long list of approvals.”

A man looks at a car on fire at the site of a bomb attack in Baghdad October 7, 2013. Bombs exploded across the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 22 people, police said. Five of the six blasts were in mainly Shi'ite Muslim districts, but there was also an explosion in the predominantly Sunni Muslim neighborhood of Doura. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTX142ZK

Iraqis Traumatized by Bombings

Adnan Abu Zeed

Adnan Abu Zeed

Iraqi security forces and people stand at the site of a car bomb attack in Basra, 420 km (261 miles) southeast of Baghdad, October 13, 2013. A series of bombs killed at least ten people in mostly Shi'ite Muslim provinces of Iraq on Sunday ahead of the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha, police and medical sources said. REUTERS/Essam Al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS CRIME LAW) - RTX149QD

Iraq Plays Politics with Security As Elections Approach

Mustafa al-Kadhimi

Mustafa al-Kadhimi

Residents gather at the site of a car bomb attack in the Kamaliya district in Baghdad April 15, 2013. Car bombs and attacks on cities across Iraq, including two blasts at a checkpoint at Baghdad international airport, killed at least 20 people and wounded more than 200 on Monday, police said. The wave of attacks in Baghdad, Kirkuk, Tuz Khurmato and other towns to the north to south, came days before Iraqis vote in provincial elections that will test political stability more than a year after U.S. troops lef

Iraqi Security Forces Cannot Stop Terrorism

Mustafa al-Kadhimi

Mustafa al-Kadhimi

FSA patrol in Jarablus

Islamic State cells terrorize civilians in northwest Syria

Khaled al-Khateb

Khaled al-Khateb