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Baghdad security chief 'is fired' Baghdad security chief 'is fired'
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has fired the head of Baghdad's security forces in the wake of Tuesday's bombings which killed 127 people.Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has fired the head of Baghdad's security forces in the wake of Tuesday's bombings which killed 127 people.
"[Mr Maliki] ordered the removal of Lt Gen Abboud Qanbar from his post," a statement from his office said."[Mr Maliki] ordered the removal of Lt Gen Abboud Qanbar from his post," a statement from his office said.
Qanbar will be replaced by Lt Gen Ahmed Hashem Awoudeh, AFP and local TV said. Lt Gen Qanbar would be replaced by the deputy chief of the Iraqi army, Lt Gen Ahmed Hashem, the statement said.
A total of 127 people were killed and 448 wounded in Tuesday's bombings, the third such major attack to hit the Iraqi capital since August. A total of 127 people were killed and 448 wounded in Tuesday's bombings, the third such major attack since August.
"This crime will prompt us to review security strategies. It will bring changes in positions of officials in order to develop tactics to confront these developing challenges," Mr Maliki said.
Public anger
BAGHDAD BOMBING Scores killed in Baghdad bombings Violence returns to Iraq
Iraqi MPs have demanded that top ministers face questions in parliament over security.
Iraq's Interior Minister, Jawad al-Bolani, said he was willing attend the session as long it was held publicly.
Reports said the defence minister and Prime Minister Maliki had also been asked to attend.
The bombings came two days after Iraq's parliament backed a new election law and set delayed polls for 7 March.
The top US military officer said plans to withdraw US forces next year had not been altered, despite the attacks.
Toll questioned
Also on Wednesday, the Iraqi government questioned the media's death toll for the bombing, which quoted unnamed police and hospital officials who said the number of dead totalled 127.
The government-run Baghdad Operation Centre said 77 people had been killed.
Relatives of the dead from Tuesday's attacks waited outside Baghdad hospitals to pick up their remains.
Some mourners carried black-draped coffins through the streets to the burial grounds.
Officials say that attacks on state-run institutions are designed to undermine the Iraqi government, especially ahead of the parliamentary election.
Also on Wednesday, another bomb, planted by the side of a road in north Baghdad, killed two people and injured seven. Later, a sniper shot a policeman dead in the same district.
Iraqi government figures have shown that violence generally has fallen over the past 18 months.
In October, however, co-ordinated bomb attacks killed at least 155 people and wounded hundreds in Baghdad.