Armed men use guns equipped with silencers attacking checkpoints and suicide bombers targeted shoppers at a market, as insurgent launched attacks in Iraq Monday killed at least 30 people.
The attacks in various parts of Baghdad and in cities in the south, north and west of the capital, appear aimed to show the Iraqis that al-Qaida in Iraq was still a potent force in spite of suffering battleground defeats in recent weeks.
They have also emerged as Iraq remains gripped by political doubt two months after a shortened election pitted cross-sectarian bloc supported by the alternative Sunnis against the main Shiite-led political coalitions.
In the bloodiest occurrence, wearing a suicide bombing a Western filled with explosive and another driving a car killed at least 13 people and wounded 40 in a market in al-Suwayra, 50 km (30 miles) southeast of Baghdad, "said Majid Askar, an official with Wasit provincial council.
At dawn in Baghdad, equipped with silencers gunmen killed at least seven Iraqi soldiers and policemen when they attack six checkpoints, while the bombs planted on three others injured several others, an Interior Ministry source.
All checkpoints were attacked around the same time, "the source said, asking not be recognized.
"It was a message to us that they can attack us in different parts of the city at the same time because they have cells everywhere," he said.
In divide incident, targeting a roadside bomb a police patrol killed two people in southern Baghdad, a car bomb in Tarmiya on the capital's northern outskirts killed three and wounded 16, bombs outside police home in the western region of Anbar killed four and a suicide car bomber in the northern city of Mosul killed two.
A total of more than 30 people were killed and injured 100
The attacks on checkpoints with silencers, designed to add an element of surprise and sow confusion, showed a new tactic was used by a weakened and increasingly dangerous Sunni Islamist insurgency that the direction forces dealt a series of battle with al-Qaida's local system in the recent weeks.
Overall aggression in Iraq has fallen sharply since the height of the sectarian war in 2006/07, but the 7.3 choice that produced no clear winner has contributed to tension.
The interdisciplinary sectarian alliance led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, a secular Shiite, rode strong support from the Sunnis to take a two-seat lead in the parliamentary vote.
Iraq's largest Shiite-led coalitions, however, agreed to form an alliance that would deprive Allawi a chance to try to form the next government, potentially ange ring Sunnis.
Meanwhile scored U.S. and Iraqi military forces several victory against al-Qaida, including killing its two leaders in Iraq in April.
But while impaired, officials say still al-Qaida in Iraq and allied Sunni Islamist groups, dangerous, and they have said they will try to stage major attacks to establish to his followers that they are still approximately.
The suicide bomber in the mixed Sunni-Shiite town of al-Suwayra occurred near a Shiite mosque, police said. Eight of the dead were 13 police officers.
The car bomb in Tarmiya under attack the convoy of the local mayor, officials said.
In the former al-Qaeda stranglehold of Anbar province, five bombs went off at dawn outside the home by police and killed two people in the city of Fallujah and two in a village 20 km (12 miles) east of Falluja, police said.
The home of police officers has been bombed several times in Anbar, Iraq's Sunni center, in fresh weeks.
In the unstable northern city of Mosul, where al-Qaida continues to develop tensions between Iraq's preponderance Arabs and minority Kurds, at least two Kurdish peshmerga soldiers were killed when a suicide bomber in a car drove into a checkpoint manned by American, Iraqi and Kurdish forces, "said police.
About 100 people were injured across the state.
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