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Dozens Of Iraqis Killed in Reprisals
In a Kirkuk hospital, neighbors stay with Moimen Yasir, 6, who lost all five members of his immediate family in one of a series of closely timed bombings.
(By Yahya Ahmed -- Associated Press)
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No major figure in the Bush administration or the military has defined the conflict as a civil war, although Lt. Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the second-ranking U.S. military commander in Iraq, warned this summer and fall that Iraq could descend into civil war and that militias were pushing it in that direction.
Other violence Sunday included a one-hour series of closely timed bombings that killed 12 people in the northern oil city of Kirkuk. Police Brig. Serhad Qadir said targets included the local headquarters of the Facilities Protection Service, a little-regulated government guard service that has become one of the largest armed forces in Iraq.
A suicide attacker managed to get a refrigerated truck laden with bombs into the headquarters compound, killing five people, Qadir said. Another bomb exploded near a girls' high school, killing two students and wounding 25, he said.
Kirkuk, the center of one of Iraq's largest oil reserves, is the scene of an intense rivalry between Kurds and Arabs. A referendum set for next year is to determine whether control of the city is given to a separate federal region held by Kurds in the north or stays with the Arab center and south.
Seven Iraqis were killed by a bomb in a failed assassination attempt against an Interior Ministry official in Baghdad.
The U.S. military announced that three American soldiers were killed Saturday when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb south of Baghdad and that two U.S. Marines were killed Sunday in Anbar. The deaths raised to at least 51 the number of U.S. troops killed so far this month, putting October on track to be one of the deadliest months in the war for American troops.
In Baghdad, the chief prosecutor trying Saddam Hussein and seven members of his toppled government in a Shiite massacre in the 1980s said a date for a verdict would be set Monday. The former Iraqi leader faces possible hanging for allegedly engineering the killing of 148 people from the village of Dujail after a failed attempt on his life in 1982. The prosecutor, Jaafar al-Mousawi, said he expected the verdict to be announced in 21 days.
Special correspondent Saad al-Izzi and other Washington Post staff in Iraq contributed to this report.
