TUE NOV 02 2010 — Al Qaeda activated 19 car bomb explosions, suicide bombers, and roadside and sticky bombs — assaulting cars at main intersections. Army, police and emergency teams racing to the scenes of disaster were also hit by bombs and offense by Al Qaeda.

The public medical system was overloaded.

DEBKAfile Al Qaeda’s biggest attack on a state capital leaves 120 dead in Baghdad

Four blasts hit four Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday.

Explosions hit Kadhimiya in the northwest, Amil in the southwest, and Ur and Zuhour in the northeast. The explosions were related to car bombs or roadside bombs.

Four other blasts were reported later in the capital but there was no immediate word on specific locations and whether they caused any casualties.

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A series of car bombs and roadside bombs killed at least 32 people in Baghdad Friday. Most people were killed near Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s office in Sadr city where at least 21 died and 45 were inured. Another bomb attack targeted a mosque in northern Baghdad that killed 3 and injured 14.

SOURCE: Xinhuanet.com 32 killed in string of bomb attacks in Baghdad