Whodunnit?

BASSAM HASHEM was lucky. He had just come home from taking the children to school when the bomb exploded, hurling shards of window-pane with enough force to embed them in his living room walls. Mr Hashem escaped with cuts. But two neighbouring houses were flattened, leaving all 24 inhabitants injured as well as homeless. One did not survive, so joining the 40 other Iraqis, and one American soldier, who lost their lives in the four huge suicide bombings that shocked Baghdad on October 27th, the first morning of Ramadan. The soldier's death marked a watershed: more Americans have died in Iraq since than during the conventional war, when 114 perished.