(Guardian-UK) Martin Chulov - Four car bombs on Tuesday killed more than 120 people and maimed about 200 in the center of Baghdad in attacks that replicated two days of carnage in August and October. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki blamed the devastation on senior Ba'athists living in exile in Syria and an alliance of Islamists and militants. A dossier prepared by Iraq's security forces centers on a meeting on 30 July in the Syrian town of Zabaniyi chaired by two well-known Ba'athist figures. Also in attendance were former Iraqi army officers and representatives from militant groups that were active in Iraq's Anbar province in the blood-soaked years of 2006-07, including Jaish al-Mohammed, the Salaheddin Army and the Islamic Army of Iraq.
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