Truck Bombing Highlights Baghdad Security Threats

Baghdad province is one of the smallest in Iraq but it is home to more of the country's population than any other.  It is also where, month after month, more people are killed by acts of terrorism or armed violence than anywhere else. United Nations data from June showed 236 of the 382 civilians killed in Iraq last month died in Baghdad.  Those numbers will go up in July, after Sunday's suicide truck bombing in the city of Baghdad killed at least 175 people and wounded...

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