Nightly News   |  February 23, 2012

Deadly attacks in Iraq

A series of bombings across Baghdad killed at least 55 people. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.

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>> a series of coordinated attacks across iraq today killed at least 55 people, wounded hundreds more. the bombings are the latest in a wave of violence there since the last u.s. troops withdrew from there just over two months ago now. meantime syria's bloody crackdown continues. today the unissued a scathing indictment of the assad regime accusing it of, quote, gross human rights violations ordered at the highest levels of the armed forces of the government. they continue to target civilians.