BBC NEWS | Middle East | Many killed in Iraq bomb blasts

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Many killed in Iraq bomb blasts: "At least 41 people have been killed in a series of bomb blasts across Iraq.

Most of the deaths occurred in Mosul, where a suicide bomber blew up a lorry at a police station.

A suicide car bomber killed another 12 people in Kirkuk, while bombers also struck in Khalis and Baghdad.

US military spokesman Maj Gen William Caldwell said there was a 22% rise in attacks in the capital during the Muslim festival of Ramadan.

Gen Caldwell said the increase was 'disheartening', adding that a two-month campaign against insurgents in the city had 'not met our overall expectations'.

Meanwhile US President George W Bush has said that the surge in violence in Iraq may be equivalent to America's traumatic experience in the Vietnam War.

But, speaking on ABC News, Mr Bush denied that the rising number of Iraqi and US military deaths meant the Iraq campaign was failing." Read complete post here.