 A suicide bomber detonated an explosives belt at a crowded gas station Tuesday one of five attacks that rocked Baghdad in quick succession, killing at least 41 people and wounding scores, police said. The surge of violence, including three car bombs, unsettled an Iraqi capital already shaken by fears the country teeters on the brink of sectarian civil war. Iraqis have suffered through days of reprisal killings and attacks on Sunni mosques since bombers blew apart the gold dome of the revered Shiite Askariya shrine in Samarra on Wednesday. The Iraqi Cabinet said 379 people had been killed and 458 wounded in reprisal attacks in the week since the shrine was destroyed. In Washington, President Bush decried the latest surge in sectarian violence in Iraq and declared that for Iraqis "the choice is chaos or unity." ...
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