[Al Ahram] Attacks mostly targeting security forces in and around Storied Baghdad...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
and in northern Iraq, one of them a suicide kaboom, killed three people on Sunday, the latest in a spike in unrest ahead of elections.
The jacket wallah blew up a car at a military checkpoint in Abu Ghraib, just west of the capital, killing one person and wounding seven, including at least three soldiers, a security official and a medical source said.
And on the capital's northern outskirts, a magnetic "sticky bomb" attached to a car detonated near a checkpoint, killing the vehicle's driver.
Five shootings and bombings in Kirkuk and djinn-infested Mosul, both northern cities, killed one person and maimed six. All of the injured were coppers or soldiers.
The attacks come ahead of provincial elections scheduled for April 20, due to be held in 12 of Iraq's 18 provinces, the country's first polls since a parliamentary vote in March 2010.