By DPA,
Baghdad : Twin car bombs shook the Iraqi capital Sunday, killing at least six people, two days before the deadline for US soldiers to leave Iraqi cities, police said.
The first car bomb detonated near Baghdad University’s Faculty of Administration and Economy in the Talbiya district of the capital as a US patrol passed by. Six civilian bystanders were killed in that attack, police told Baghdad’s Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The second car bomb struck a police garage in the west of the city, wounding seven policemen, police said.
The Iraqi government says the US military has handed over control of 95 percent of their installations in urban areas to Iraqi forces, and that Iraqi troops will take control of the rest over the coming days.
The Iraqi military says it will meet the US withdrawal with its biggest deployment of troops and policemen in the six years since the US-led invasion of the country.
Some 120,000 additional soldiers and police will be deployed to Baghdad alone, and thousands of others will be deployed to other cities.