Washington, May 11, 2010, SPA -- The United States said Monday that opponents of progress in Iraq were making “one last charge” to spark chaos, after more than 100 people were killed in attacks during the country’s most violent day so far this year. Three car bombs at a factory, followed by a fourth targeting emergency workers, and bomb attacks against security forces killed at least 102 people, but Washington said the bloodshed would not shake confidence in the Iraqi government. “We have always known and planned for, in the period of governmental formation, that those whose violent grip slowly diminished over several years … would make one last charge at trying to foment violence and chaos,” said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs. “The vice president [Joseph Biden] has been working on the political situation there, and we continue to believe we’re making progress,” Gibbs told reporters. Meanwhile, Monday’s “attacks will not undermine the confidence the Iraqi people have demonstrated in their government and their security forces,” State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said in a statement. “Iraqi people overwhelmingly reject violence as a way to address their political differences.” --SPA 12:40 LOCAL TIME 09:40 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/779477