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Almost 100 dead in Baghdad attacks

By Ernesto Londoño and Greg Jaffe in Baghdad and Daniel Dombey in Washington

Published: August 19 2009 10:12 | Last updated: August 19 2009 23:31

Plumes of smoke and dust billow into the sky from the scene of a car bomb in front of the foreign ministry in central Baghdad on August 19, 2009. Two massive car bombs in the Iraqi capital, including one outside the heavily-fortified Agence,France-Presse
Plumes of smoke and dust billow into the sky from the scene of a car bomb in front of the foreign ministry in central Baghdad

Baghdad on Wednesday suffered a string of attacks that left almost 100 people dead in the latest sign that violence in Iraq has intensified in the wake of a handover from US troops to Iraqi security forces.

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