A numbed Iraq, shocked and shaken by Tuesday's string of bomb attacks in Karbala and Baghdad, is observing three-days of mourning. Amid rage and grief over the death of 180 people in the coordinated blasts, US-appointed Iraqi leaders called for calm, patience and unity in the face of the gravest of provocations. Universal condemnation poured in from various quarters and Shia, Sunni and Kurd members of the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council pointed their finger at Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian suspected of ties to al-Qaeda. They condemned the attacks and said they would not be deterred from creating a new democratic regime.

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