Car bombs kill 30 in Iraq as Bush reassures PM | Top News | Reuters.com: "BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Car bombs killed at least 30 people in Iraq on Monday, including two near simultaneous blasts in a mixed area in Baghdad shortly before Muslims gathered at sunset to break their fasting during the holy month of Ramadan.
The fresh violence came as President Bush assured Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki that Washington had not set any deadline for the Iraqi government to get control of sectarian violence threatening to plunge Iraq into civil war.
U.S. commanders have warned that Sunni insurgent groups such as al Qaeda battling the U.S.-backed Shi'ite-led government would launch attacks during Ramadan. On Sunday, 10 people were killed in restive Kirkuk in multiple car bombs.
Iraq has been gripped by sectarian violence between Muslim Shi'ites and Sunnis since the bombing of a Shi'ite shrine in February. Thousands have been killed and more than 300,000 have been forced to flee their homes."