Bomb blasts ripped through three Iraqi cities Monday morning, killing 38 people, including 34 who were gathered at a market in the southern city of Kut. The violence struck from the northern city of Kirkuk to the southern cities of Najaf and Kut, the Associated Press reported. The worst violence was in the southern city of Kut, 100 miles (160 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, where twin explosions went off as construction workers were gathered in a market selling generators and other appliances.
