FOR WHAT END? An Iraqi man walks amid the rubble where a suicide bomber detonated a truck packed with explosives among a crowd of casual labourers in Tayaran Square in the Rusafa district of Baghdad 12 December 2006. At least 71 were killed and 148 wounded in the fourth major attack in the same spot this year (photo: AFP)

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