10 May 2010 Iraq attacks
Major General Qassim al-Moussawi, an Iraqi Army spokesman, gave a statement on 10 May in which he said "Al-Qaeda is trying to ... use some gaps created by some political problems".[1] There were at least twenty attacks,[2] of which the worst, by death toll, was a series of three or four suicide car bombs at the 'State Company for Textile Industries' in Al Hillah in central Iraq, approximately 100 km (62 mi) from the capital, Baghdad.A fourth car bomb targeted the crowd and emergency services at the scene, according to police Captain Ali al-Shimmari.Fallujah, which had previously seen intense battles between insurgents and American troops was targeted with at least two deaths resulting from bomb blasts.According to officials, as Baghdad's nightly curfew lifted at 05:00 local time, gunmen disguised as municipal street cleaners attacked 10 police and army checkpoints across the city, killing as many as 9 soldiers and officers, and wounding 24.