A car bomb went off at a bus terminal in Iraq's predominantly Shi'ite Muslim South on Sunday, killing at least nine people, police said.<br/> <br />The bomb detonated in the town of Garmat Ali, around 12 miles north of the usually stable oil hub Basra.<br/> <br />No one claimed responsibility for the attack.<br/> <br />Another bomb went off in a car park outside a government office in Basra itself, wounding at least two people.<br/> <br />Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is facing widespread protests in the country's Sunni heartland.<br/> <br />Violence, too, has swelled amid rising opposition to Maliki, who is Shi'ite, and Iraq's al Qaeda affiliate has urged demonstrators to take up arms against the government.
