Click to play videoBaghdad: A series of explosions shook Iraq on Sunday. The US military has attributed the explosions to ‘indirect fire’. Meanwhile, the detention of a powerful Shiite politician's son has sparked protests across the country.
Sunday's deadliest attack coming not in the Capital Baghdad, but to the west in the ever volatile al-Anbar province where a car bomb exploded outside of a mosque in the town of Habbaniyah located on the ever dangerous road between Ramadi and Fallujah.
Killing and wounding dozens of Iraqis, according to reports the Imam at the mosque had been critical of al-Qaeda in Iraq's methods of operating in this country 24 hours before Sunday's devastating attacks.
The province is predominantly Sunni, it is not the scene of the sectarian attacks that we do see throughout the rest of the country.
What we do see in al-Anbar province are clashes between Sunni tribes and insurgents who support al-Qaeda in Iraq and those who don't.
The capital itself was also the scene of a number of attacks, most of them targeting the Iraqi security forces however again it was the Iraqi civilians who bore the brunt of the violence.
Meanwhile Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki coming out and saying that the government was seeing signs of success as a result of the security crackdown in Baghdad.
However the US military is cautioning against any premature statements of success and the harsh reminder of that last weekend where the Iraqi government came out and announced an 80 per cent decrease in violence and 24 hours later there was a devastating attack in a marketplace that left more than 60 Iraqis dead.
The US military fully expecting the insurgency in Baghdad to a certain degree to sit back, watch how this plan unfolds in the streets of Baghdad before planning out their own counterattack.
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