BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Mortar bombs killed 15 people in a Sunni neighbourhood in Baghdad on Sunday in fresh violence after a truck bomb killed 135 people in a Shi'ite area in the worst single bombing since the U.S.-led 2003 invasion.
The spiralling sectarian bloodshed threw the spotlight on Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's planned crackdown in Baghdad, but a U.S. general warned it would not produce results overnight and said reinforcements were still being deployed.
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