Bloody Sunday: 56 Iraqis killed, 171 wounded

An unusually quiet Saturday was followed by a very bloody Sunday in which at least 56 Iraqis were killed and 171 more were wounded. Baghdad again received most of the violence, for which a member of the Iraqi National Alliance blamed al-Qaida and the political vacuum. Underscoring the unreliability of news accounts from Iraq since many international reporters left, a couple of the attacks that occurred yesterday went unreported until today and Mosul saw very little violence. In Baghdad, 21 people were killed and 70 others were wounded in a suicide car bombing in Aden Square. At least one of the two bombs reported was on a minibus and appeared to target a police station. About the same time, a car bomb killed 19 Iraqis and wounded 58 more as it demolished an Asiacell building in Mansour. Guards fired shots into the air following the explosion. Also in Baghdad, three civilians were wounded in a blast in Ridwaniya that may have targeted an electricity ministry official. A roadside bomb in Shula killed two minibus passengers.