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Post-surge violence

Despite the touted success of the surge, people keep dying violently in Iraq.

Bombings Tuesday killed at least 60 people in Baghdad and in two major provincial capitals in Iraq.

The deadliest attack happened in the Diyala province capital of Baquba when a car bomb detonated outside a crowded restaurant, killing 40 people and wounding 75, according to sources on the scene, an Interior Ministry official and the U.S. military.

The attack happened near the courthouse and other government offices in Baquba, a medical source and a resident told CNN. Women and children are among the dead.

The week was already off to a bad start.

The attack in Baquba was one of the most deadly for months in Iraq, where the US surge strategy has succeeded in reducing the number of deaths.

However, there have been several attacks already this week. At least 17 people were killed in two bomb attacks near Mosul on Monday, including one which killed 12 members of the Kurdish Peshmerga security force, now part of the Iraqi army, near the Syrian border.

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