A string of suicide car bombings left Baghdad picking up the pieces and shattered its false sense of security, The Iraqi capital was rocked by a numerous car bombings that, were targeted at several government buildings and took the lives of 147 people. Yesterday’s attack is said to be the biggest and the most devastating in the last two years.

The suicide car bomb attacks reflect upon the weakness of the Iraqi government’s ability to safeguard its citizens and national interests, as the U.S and coalition troops withdraw from the country. Many experts believe that, such attacks would only increase in numbers and tenacity, as the country gears up for a crucial election in January, 2010.

The long list of causalities include, 35 people from the Ministry of Justice, while another car bomb blast ripped through the Baghdad Provincial Court and killed 25 people. Apart from the dead, more than 271 people were injured, including 3 American citizens, who were working in Baghdad as contractors.

After these devastating attacks, U.S President Barrack Obama in statement said,

“These bombings serve no purpose other than the murder of innocent men, women and children, and they only reveal the hateful and destructive agenda of those who would deny the Iraqi people the future that they deserve.”

Iraqi Prime Ministers, Nouri al-Maliki has vowed to bring the perpetrators of these attacks of justice and to regain peace in the capital of Iraq, a country that has now slowly begun to stand up on its feet, after years of repression from its ex-ruler, Saddam Hussein.

Via Associated Press.