75 Dead in Baghdad Market Bombings

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two simultaneous car bombs killed 75 people in a busy market in central Baghdad on Monday in fresh violence that came as Iraqis awaited the start of a U.S.-backed offensive in the capital. Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki angrily blamed the car bombs on followers of Saddam Hussein, whose botched execution last month angered many among his fellow minority Sunni Arabs.