Wave of bombing attacks rock Baghdad, killing 8 Iraqis

A series of coordinated bombing attacks rattled the Iraqi capital Baghdad Tuesday, killing at least nine people and injuring dozens others. A security source told KUNA, on condition of anonymity, that two civilians were killed and four others were wounded when a car bomb exploded in Al-Kamaliah neighborhood in eastern Baghdad. "A second car bomb blew off in Jamilah neighborhood in northern Baghdad, killing two civilians and injuring a third," the source said. In Zafaraniyah neighborhood southeast of Baghdad, four people killed and ten others wounded by two car bombs explosion. In Al-Sadr City in northern Bahgad, a man was killed and another was wounded when a bomb placed under a small passenger car exploded. The bombing attacks coincide with the clashes that took place Tuesday between police and army forces and Sunni fighters in western Ramadi in Anbar, after the government forces' move to break up a year-long anti-government sit-in in the volatile city. Tension is festering between the government of Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki, a Shiite, and Iraqi Sunnis who accuse authorities of marginalizing and targeting their community, through wrongful detentions and accusations of involvement in terrorism. The situation have taken a deteriorating turn among Iraqi Shiites and Sunnis in the past months as wave of bombing attacks have recently targeted worship places and worshippers of both sects. According to the UN mission in Iraq, nearly 7,157 civilians in addition to 952 Iraqi security personnel were killed between January and November 2013.