A suicide bomber detonated explosives in his minibus outside the Sadeer hotel in central Baghdad on Monday morning. One person died in the attack, and several others were injured. The attack followed by less than a day a suicide truck bomb that killed at least thirty outside a police station in the Iraqi capital.
Although many such attacks center on police and Iraqi officials, most of those who died on Sunday were civilians – apparently because police stations have been fortified with concrete barriers.
Also on Sunday, Iraqi officials announced that they had a new security plan for the nation, but declined to give any details.
The terror campaign has prevented Sunni Muslims from participating in the drafting of a new constitution. A boycott of the drafting committee was announced by the Sunnis last week, two days after three Sunni politicians were killed in a bombing.
Since the beginning of the war two years ago, Iraq has experienced a sharp decline in its citizens’ personal security status. Thousands of Iraqis have been killed since the war began, in the almost daily bombings which plague the nation. Many of the terror attacks are carried out by Al-Qa’ida, which opposes the American-backed Iraqi regime.