BAGHDAD — A double truck bombing Monday in Mosul and blasts in Baghdad brought the death toll to more than 100 in four days, Iraq’s worst spasm of violence since U.S. forces left the cities.
The attacks in Mosul, which the U.S. military has called the last stronghold of al-Qaeda in Iraq, killed 28 people Monday and 44 on Friday. The attacks targeted ethnic minorities, indicating that insurgents are seeking out relatively undefended targets to maximize casualties as the strapped Iraqi army focuses on central areas.
Another 22 Iraqis, mostly day laborers, died in two bombings in Baghdad on Monday. Seven Shiite pilgrims were killed by bombings in Baghdad on Friday.
The latest deaths raise to at least 158 the number killed in the first 10 days of August.
