Things continue to get worse for the people we’ve liberated. So far, 120 people have reportedly died in today’s bombings, and that toll is expected to rise. The blasts seemed to have marked the end of a national 15-minute pause for reflection on the first anniversary of the Samarra shrine attack by al-Qaeda in 2006. Resentment is growing towards al-Maliki’s inability to control the chaos.

Twin car bombs in central Baghdad have killed up to 120 people and wounded more than 150. The blasts on Monday came on the first anniversary of the bombing of the Al Askari mosque in Samarra, north of the capital.

The first car bomb exploded in a garage under a wholesale market in the Shorja district killing more than 40 people. A second explosion hit the Haraj market just over one kilometer away, killing at least five more people and wounding more than 30.

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