Series of attacks more than 100 people died in attacks in Iraq

Iraq on Monday have been coated with an apparently coordinated series of attacks. At least 107 people were killed according to the authorities of the afternoon in bombings and attacks in more than a dozen cities. The aim was primarily the security forces. In the capital, Baghdad, bombs exploded in the Shiite district including Sadr City. At least 15 soldiers were killed when gunmen in the early morning attacked a military base about 90 kilometers north of the capital. It was the bloodiest day in Iraq for more than two years. First, no one confessed to the attacks. In the Iraqi security forces were suspected radical Islamists as the perpetrator. The leader of the Iraqi arm of the terrorist network Al Qaeda, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, had announced a few days ago a new offensive. "Al Qaeda tries to send out the message that there is still strong and able to choose times and locations for attacks," said the Shiite parliamentarian Hakim al Samili. The inability to collect intelligence about terrorist plans or to stop them, have shown how the government is helpless when it proposed to protect the people, said al Samili, which belongs to the security and defense committee. Observers suspect that Al Qaeda wants to exacerbate the tensions between the ethnic groups to destabilize the country. The UN special envoy for Iraq, Martin Kobler, sees the country falling apart, despite the series of attacks. But there were "centrifugal tendencies", and it is not impossible that Sunni provinces declared autonomy for Kurdistan, after the example, he said in Berlin on Monday. Kobler criticized that will remain difficult security situation of the local actors continue to be used for "grave political struggle" along ethnic and religious lines. The violence in Iraq had declined in comparison to the bloody years 2006 and 2007, but has increased in recent months.