Iraq blasts kill 100 as VP gets death sentence
A series of bombs ripped through mainly Shi’ite Baghdad districts on Sunday after Iraq’s fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi was sentenced to death, ending one of the bloodiest days of the year with more than 100 killed across the country. The violence and the sentence for Hashemi, a senior Sunni politician, threatened to stoke sectarian tensions in Iraq where a Shi’ite-led government is battling political instability and a Sunni Islamist insurgency nine months after U. S. troops left. . . .
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