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Twin blasts hit Baghdad
Security forces are bracing for a spike in attacks in the wake of Saddam's execution [AFP- file]
Two bombs have exploded at a petrol station in Baghdad's western Mansour district, killing 13 people and wounding 22.
 
The first blast was a roadside bomb that hit people lining up for fuel at the petrol station, police said. When rescue services arrived on the scene, a car bomb exploded.
A source in the interior ministry said both were car bombs.
 
Mansour is a well-off neighbourhood with a mixed population of Shia and Sunni Arabs.

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There has been a relative lull in major attacks and violence over the Eid al-Adha holiday, which ended on Wednesday.

But US Major-General William Caldwell said on Wednesday that US and Iraqi forces were braced for a possible violent backlash after Saddam Hussein was hanged on Saturday and an illicitly filmed video of the hanging showed him being taunted by Shia officials just before his death.

The video has inflamed sectarian tensions in a country already on the brink of civil war. 

UN statistics say an average of more than 100 people a day are killed in bombings, mortar attacks and sectarian death squad killings.
 Source: Agencies
 
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