 At least 50 people have died in a wave of attacks in Iraq, including a blast at a busy Baghdad market and another at an army and police recruitment centre. The bombing at the Shurja market killed 24 people and injured 35, police said. Other blasts and shootings left a total of 14 dead in the Iraqi capital, while in the town of Hilla, a bomb killed 12 men queuing to join the police. The Baghdad blasts come amid a joint US-Iraqi security clampdown that officials insist is working. The top US general in Iraq, George Casey, said on Wednesday he could see Iraqi forces taking on responsibility for the country's security within 12 to 18 months, with "very little" coalition support. But Baghdad's citizens probably do not feel the security clampdown is working, says the BBC's world affairs correspondent Nick Childs. ...
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