Analysts: Political Instability Fuels Iraq Blasts.

For a second day in a row, suicide bombers managed to inflict major carnage in Iraq. Two attackers blew themselves apart Friday at the gates of a Shiite Muslim shrine in Baghdad, killing at least 60 people and injuring at least 125 more.[. . .]

As al-Qaida has lost its ability to control territory, it has turned to high-profile attacks that can be used for fund-raising and recruitment among Muslim radicals, says Anthony Cordesman, a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.

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