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| Triple Baghdad blasts kill dozens |
| 2005-08-17 |
| At least 42 people have died and 80 were hurt in three car bombings in the centre of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. Two of the blasts went off within 10 minutes of each other at 0800 (0400GMT) at the busy Nahda bus station. The third blast happened on the road to a nearby hospital some 15 minutes later, just as victims of the first two attacks were being brought in. All three attacks were less than 30 minutes apart, and police say their apparent co-ordination and planning means casualty figures are almost certain to rise. The bus station serves various parts of the country and would normally have been crowded with travellers at the time of the attacks, says the BBC's Mike Wooldridge in Baghdad. One eyewitness told Reuters news agency they saw a coach blow up. "We heard an explosion in the garage, we went there and ran towards the buses for Kut, Basra and Amara," said Ahmed Jabur. "A coach blew up. When we were leaving, another one blew up in the middle of police cars." Blazing buses and bodies were strewn across the road, and police and civilian vehicles were damaged in the blast. The majority of victims appeared to be civilians, many of whom were trapped on buses. |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #8 Phil, But you do not understand...Iraqis are being killed because American troops are there. Before that, Iraqis died of old age. Do I really need sarc tags here? |
| Posted by: TMH 2005-08-17 11:21 |
| #7 Sometimes getting certain kinds of facts out of the MSM is like reading Soviet era Pravda. There is no accident in that, of course. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-08-17 10:04 |
| #6 one final thought-for-the-morning: is anyone reminded of the John Birch society by all the recent brouhaha? I was thinking about that, because a while back I read a memoir by someone who knew John Birch, and said he never believed in all that stuff the JBS did... |
| Posted by: Phil 2005-08-17 10:02 |
| #5 Why dozen? does it sound more than 42? |
| Posted by: SwissTex 2005-08-17 09:25 |
| #4 NPR this AM said the recent relative calm in Baghdad had been broken by this attack. NPR of course had not mentioned the relative calm prior. Sometimes getting certain kinds of facts out of the MSM is like reading Soviet era Pravda. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2005-08-17 09:09 |
| #3 Sunni's guaranteeing their own demise. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-08-17 08:51 |
| #2 The car bombed part of the terminal was used by busses going to the Shiite south. |
| Posted by: ed 2005-08-17 08:38 |
| #1 I wonder if any of the dead will ever get to be considered _persons_ the way Casey Sheehan is. (Not, of course, that Casey Sheehan would have approved of everything being done in his name. But that's just another question the propaganda machine wants us to ignore.) |
| Posted by: Phil Fraering 2005-08-17 08:26 |