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Shiites not Al-Qaeda behind Baghdad bombing:
Posted 2 hours 47 minutes ago. The US military said that a deadly TRUCK bombing at a Baghdad bus stop was carried out by Shiite militiamen and not by Sunni militants loyal to Al Qaeda. The casualty toll from Tuesday's attack in the Shiite Al-Hurriyah neighbourhood of north Baghdad rose to 63 dead and more than 70 wounded. The US military said its intelligence indicated that the bombing was carried out by a renegade Shiite militia cell led by Haydar Mehdi Khadum Al-Fawadi in a bid to stop the resettlement of Sunni Arabs in the neighbourhood.

"We believe the attack was not conducted by AQI (Al-Qaeda in Iraq)," military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Steven Stover said in a statement. "Though vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices are a trademark of AQI, our intelligence, corroborated through multiple sources, is this atrocity was committed by a Special Groups cell led by Haydar Mehdi Khadum Al-Fawadi."

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BAGHDAD - A powerful car bomb exploded in a crowded market area of Baghdad overnight, killing 51 people and wounding 75, in the deadliest attack in the Iraqi capital in months.

Police said the bomb was placed in a pickup truck parked next to minibus taxis near the main market in the predominantly Shi'ite neighbourhood of al-Hurriya in northwestern Baghdad. The explosion left a heap of smoking, mangled wreckage. At that time of day, the market is packed with shoppers buying food before returning home. Police said 63 people were killed and 75 wounded, including women and children.

A few weeks ago, the US military announced that violence in Iraq had dropped to a four-year low. The blast set fire to 20 shops and levelled a multi-storey building, a security source said. It damaged many vehicles and cut off electricity to the area. Ambulances raced back and forth taking casualties to nearby hospitals. US officials blamed Sunni Arab al Qaeda militants for the huge car bombs that regularly hit Baghdad in 2006 and 2007, at the height of sectarian conflict in Iraq.

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Tuesday's attack was the worst in Baghdad since 68 people were killed in coordinated bombings in a packed shopping area in the capital in March.
A month before that, female bombers killed 99 people in attacks blamed on al Qaeda at two popular Baghdad pet markets. Al Qaeda attacks on markets in 2007 forced authorities to seal off many of them with concrete anti-blast barriers.

Recent history has demonstrated that there are few religious-ideological barriers in the world of international terrorism. The secular Ba'athist regime in Syria works closely with Hizballah, as a secular Ba'athist regime in Iraq has developed ties to al-Qaeda.

It would be a mistake to assume that Islamist international terror groups are driven primarily by the religious associations with radical Sunni or radical Shiite Islam. These groups have their own geopolitical interests in bridging this great Islamic divide - particularly their antipathy for the United States and its allies.