The death toll made the bombings the deadliest spate of militant attacks in post-Taliban Afghanistan.
BAGHDAD, May 17 (Reuters) - At least 72 people were killed and more than 140 wounded by three bombings in Baghdad on Tuesday, police and medical sources said, extending the deadliest spate of attacks in the Iraqi capital so far this year.
In November, a recording by a man purporting to be Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, IS's chief, called on followers to "erupt volcanoes of jihad everywhere", and announced the extension of his "state" to Saudi Arabia, among other places.The suicide bomb on the mosque is the most deadly of a spate of recent attacks against the extremists' favourite targets: Shia, security forces and Westerners.
A spate of deadly bombings last month highlighted the fragility of the security gains.
The violence was the latest to strike Peshawar, which has been hit by a spate of deadly bombings in the past two weeks that have killed more than 150 people.
Technical incompetence, exacerbated by politicians handing out jobs for votes, was the underlying cause of a recent spate of deadly oil fires, according to most observers.
The subsequent elections, held after a spate of deadly Palestinian suicide bombings in Israel, were won by Mr. Netanyahu, the leader of the conservative Likud Party.
Understandably infuriated by the recent spate of deadly bombings, Israel's prime minister, Ariel Sharon, seems determined to end terrorism by military means alone.
A spate of deadly crashes in the 1990s, including seven from 1992 to 1994 that killed a total of 492 people, prompted China to turn to the F.A.A. for help.
