Iraq - Attacks Kill at Least 21 People - NYTimes.com Mohammed Ameen/Reuters An Iraqi soldier at the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad's Sadr City on Thursday. Car bombs exploded in Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad for the second day in a row on Thursday, part of a series of attacks in the capital and elsewhere that left at least 21 people dead, officials said. One of the blasts hit a bus and taxi stop in the Sadr City neighborhood of eastern Baghdad, right, killing at least 9 people and wounding 16, the police said. Beyond the capital, suicide bombers struck in Mosul and Kirkuk, officials said. No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but car bombs and suicide attacks are a hallmark of Al Qaeda's Iraq branch. Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki blamed sectarian tensions for the latest attacks. "We have to know that today's bloodshed is the result of sectarian hatred and also the result of a stirring up of these sectarian tensions," he said.