Watch As the US troops depart, bombs rip through Iraq

As the US troops depart, bombs rip through Iraq


US soldiers at the site of an explosion yesterday in Kut, 100 miles south-east of Baghdad. A suicide car bomber killed at least 19 people and wounded scores in the attack on a police station, a police officer said
Al-Qa'ida showed that it has the strength to strike all over Iraq yesterday by making a string of attacks that left at least 56 dead, half of them policemen and soldiers, and 250 wounded, across at least thirteen cities and towns.

The bombings came a day after the US cut the number of its troops in Iraq to below 50,000 and withdrew the last of its combat brigades. The attacks undermine the Iraqi government's claim to have succeeded in greatly improving security and weakening al-Qa'ida.

The heaviest casualties were in the city of Kut, 100 miles southeast of Baghdad on the Tigris river. A suicide bomber in a car penetrated security barriers and detonated his explosives between a police station and provincial government headquarters, killing 19 people, 15 of them policemen.
coppied by http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/as-the-us-troops-depart-bombs-rip-through-iraq-2062208.html