In Iraq on Sunday, three suicide bombers detonated car bombs within moments of each other in a coordinated attack on foreign embassies in central Baghdad. As many as forty-one people died, and more than 200 were injured. It was the deadliest attack in Iraq since January. The blasts occurred near the Iranian, Egyptian and German embassies. Meanwhile, on Friday gunmen killed twenty-four people in a Sunni village south of Baghdad. The attacks have occurred at a time of political uncertainty in Iraq following the March 7th parliamentary elections. Joost Hiltermann of the International Crisis Group said the perpetrators of the violence are trying to take advantage of the political situation. Hiltermann said, “They want to exploit the current security vacuum and trigger violence between political parties. That will be a prescription for civil war.”