Remember the good old days when the insurgency was in it's "last throes?"

What a difference 6 months makes eh?

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) - In the deadliest day in Iraq in nearly four months, at least 134 people were killed and scores were wounded in separate insurgent-bomb attacks, authorities said Thursday.

In Ramadi, 80 people were killed and dozens wounded when a bomber detonated near an Iraqi police recruitment and screening drive, according to a U.S. Marine news release.

About 1,000 people were waiting in line to apply for positions on the reconstituted Iraqi police force, officials said.

Ramadi is the capital of Anbar province, where, just before the elections, U.S. and Iraqi military forces conducted several operations aimed at rooting out a strong insurgency there.

A blast in Karbala, a Shiite holy city, killed 45 people and wounded dozens more on Thursday morning in a pedestrian mall that runs between the Imam Hussein and Imam Abbas holy shrines, police spokesman Rahman Mishawi said.

The area has been closed off and police are investigating, Mishawi said.

Karbala, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad, has been relatively free of violence for the past year.

Among the 134 dead were five U.S. soldiers with Task Force Baghdad, according to a U.S. military news release.

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