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BAGHDAD, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The Iraqi capital was rocked by new insurgent attacks that killed 6 people and wounded 23 Friday.
As Baghdad was crippled by long lines at gas pumps following insurgent death threats to gas tanker truck drivers, another suicide bomb attack killed three civilians as well as the bomber, Iraqi police said.
In a separate attack, a mortar landed in a market area killing three people and injuring 23 more.
The suicide bomber blew himself up in a car next to a police patrol in a business district, killing three people.
The attacks were the latest development in a week of stepped up Sunni insurgent attacks around the country, but especially in Baghdad. They followed growing anger among Iraq's five-million Sunni minority, 20 percent of the total population, at the way they are being shut out of key power positions in the new coalition government being set up by Shiite and Kurdish parties following the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections.
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