BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Up to six car bombs ripped through the east Baghdad stronghold of a major Shi'ite militia force on Sunday, killing 46 people, wounding 204 and raising fears reprisals could again pitch Iraq toward civil war.
The apparently coordinated attacks on markets in Sadr City occurred as political leaders, shepherded by the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, met once more without obvious result to discuss forming a national unity government that might avert a bloodbath.
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