Bombings in Iraq kill nearly three dozen people

From Jomana Karadsheh
CNN
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) - Bombers struck military and government targets in
Iraq Monday, killing at least 19 people in two attacks in Baghdad and at least
16 more in the northern city of Mosul, authorities said.

The strikes come as Iraqi officials issued figures showing a slight hike
in war-related civilian deaths in November. While security has greatly improved
in Baghdad and other cities, Monday's assaults reflect the resiliency of Iraq's
insurgents.

An Iraqi Interior Ministry official said a car bombing and suicide vest
bombing near the academy in eastern Baghdad were carried out moments apart,
killing at least 16 people and wounding 46 others.

There are few details about who carried out the strike, but there has
been discontent among Shiites in some parts of the eastern Baghdad over the
parliament's passage of the U.S.-Iraqi security pact last week.

In the northern Baghdad neighborhood of Suleikh, a roadside bomb left a
senior government official in critical condition and killed three other people,
the official said.