Christmas Day bombings in Iraq's capital kill 37

Militants in Iraq
targeted Christians
in three separate
Christmas Day
bombings in
Baghdad, killing at
least 37 people,
officials said Wednesday.
In one attack, a car bomb went off near
a church in the capital's southern Dora
neighborhood, killing at least 26 people
and wounding 38, a police officer said.
Earlier, two bombs ripped through a
nearby outdoor market simultaneously
in the Christian section of Athorien,
killing 11 people and wounding 21, the
officer said.
The Iraq-based leader of the Chaldean
Catholic Church, Louis Sako, said the
parked car bomb exploded after
Christmas Mass and that none of the
worshippers were hurt. Sako said he
didn't believe the church was the
target.
There was no immediate claim of
responsibility for the attacks, but Iraq's
dwindling Christian community, which is
estimated to number about 400,000 to
600,000 people, often has been
targeted by al-Qaida and other
insurgents who see the Christians as
heretics.