It's official "Ramadan" has started - 93 killed in series of blasts, attacks in Iraq.

It's official "Ramadan" has started - 93 killed in series of blasts, attacks in Iraq.(TH).An onslaught of bombings and shootings killed 93 people across Iraq on Monday, officials said, in the nation’s deadliest day so far this year. The attacks come days after the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq declared a new offensive and warned in a statement that the militant group is reorganising in areas from which it retreated before U.S. troops left the country last December. Al-Qaeda has been seeking to re-assert its might in the security vacuum left by the departing Americans, seizing on Baghdad’s fragmented government and the surge of Sunni rebels in neighbouring Syria to sow instability across Iraq. U.S. and Iraqi officials insist that the terror network’s Iraqi wing, known as the Islamic State of Iraq, is nowhere as strong as it was when the nation threatened to fall into civil war between 2006 and 2008, and the Iraqi government is better established. Still, the huge death toll Monday and an almost-daily drumbeat of killings last month show a-Qaeda remains fully capable of creating chaos in the foreseeable future. Monday’s violence in 13 Iraqi cities and towns appeared coordinated- The blasts all took place within a few hours of each other. They struck mostly at security forces and government offices two of al—Qaida’s favorite targets in Iraq. “It was a thunderous explosion,” said Mohammed Munim, 35, who was working at an Interior Ministry office that issues government ID cards to residents in Baghdad’s Shia Sadr City neighbourhood when a car exploded outside. Sixteen people were killed in the single attack.The overall toll made Monday the deadliest day in Iraq since U.S. troops left in mid-December. Before Monday, the deadliest day was Jan. 5, when a wave of bombings targeting Shias killed 78 people in Baghdad and outside the southern city of Nasiriyah. Last weekend, the leader of a-Qaeda’s affiliate in Iraq warned that the militant network is returning to strongholds from which it was driven from while the American military was here. “The majority of the Sunnis in Iraq support al-Qaeda and are waiting for its return,” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, head of the Islamic State of Iraq since 2010, said in the statement that was posted on a militant website. Hmmmm.....Obama: If We Work Hard, Afghanistan Could Be a Success...Like Iraq!Read the full story here.