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Al-Qaida in Iraq claims wave of attacks

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People inspect a damaged car at the scene of a car-bomb attack in Zayona neighborhood of eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 20, 2013. An al-Qaida-affiliated group in Iraq claimed responsibility for bloody attacks that killed dozens of people across the country on Tuesday, the eve of the 10th anniversary of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.

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An al-Qaida-affiliated group in Iraq claimed responsibility on Wednesday for bloody attacks that killed dozens of people across the country a day earlier. In a statement posted on a militant website, the Islamic State of Iraq said the car bombs and other explosions came to avenge the executions and "massacres" of convicted Sunni inmates held in Iraqi prisons.