[2] The attacks came a week after Iraqi forces putting down an uprising by members of an Awakening Council angry over the arrest of their commander.
Despite a seeming decline in violence since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the capability of many armed groups to strike with deadly results still exists.
Though the government insists it is only detaining those wanted for grave crimes, certain fighters – many of them former insurgents – see it as settling sectarian scores.
[2] The bombings in the Shia neighbourhood of Sadr City resulted in at least 10 deaths and 60 injuries.
A car bomb targeted the convoy of a senior official in the Ministry of Interior resulting in the death of one civilian and one policeman, while four policemen were injured in a southeastern neighbourhood of New Baghdad.