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Iraq suicide bombings kill 8 on Sunday

Another streak suicide bombings swept across the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Sunday killing at least eight people as the number of casualties from a suicide attack Saturday night south of Baghdad that torched a Shiite mosque and a crowded open-air market climbed to 71 dead and 156 wounded, officials said.

Most of the suicide attacks have involved car bombs and have terrorized the greater Baghdad area during the last eight days, and seemingly confounded Iraqi security forces and the American-backed military coalition which has been trying to figure out how to effectively undermine the insurgents` use of such weapons.

No obvious pattern has appeared in the attacks except that, like the scores of others that have made suicide bombs a prominent, gruesome feature of this war, they have often target Shiites in large numbers or Iraqi and international security forces.