At least 71 dead, 201 hurt in bombings and other attacks across Iraqi capital

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by Raheem Salman and Yara Bayoumy, Reuters

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- At least 71 people were killed and 201 wounded in a series of bombings and other attacks across Baghdad on Wednesday, police and medical sources said, extending the worst wave of sectarian bloodshed in Iraq for at least five years.

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Do these myriad on-going bombings constitute the "fires" in the cites of the land of the Chaldeans? Are Jeremiah's "fires" a euphemism for the modern-day bombings we are witnessing? Or will literal fires break out in the cities of Iraq, burning the "high gates" -- a known biblical euphemism for "city centers" -- in direct, explicit and very literal fulfillment of Jeremiah's prophecy of doom and judgment on Babylon?