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Iraq |
35 killed in Najaf suicide blast |
2006-08-11 |
![]() The blast ripped through the checkpoint as the United States boosted its troop levels in Baghdad, some 160 km to the north, in another attempt to ease communal bloodshed tearing the capital apart. Ambulances drove through the streets of Najaf appealing for blood donations as the scale of carnage became clear and the number of injured rose. Television pictures showed the body of a child being laid besides other bloodied corpses on a patch of ground beside a hospital. The dead, marked with numbered white labels on their foreheads for identification, included both police and civilians, police and hospital sources said. Meanwhile, at least 13 people were killed across Baghdad on Thursday as US and Iraqi security forces began executing the new phase of a security plan for the capital. Insurgents ambushed and killed the head of a national police brigade and six officers while they were carrying out a raid in the flashpoint neighbourhood of Al-Maalif in southwest Baghdad, medics and a defence official said. “Seven, including the colonel, were killed in the battle,” a Defence Ministry official said, adding that the officers had been ambushed by insurgents during a raid intended to seize a major weapons cache.In another incident not far from Al-Maalif, six people were killed when a bomb exploded in a busy restaurant in Baghdad’s Saydiyah neighbourhood, an Interior Ministry official said. |
Posted by:Fred |
#2 Seems suicide boomers have been way down lately. A few days ago, the escalating-surging-blossoming-exploding-surging-violence- leading-to-the-impending-civil-war-quagmire had 35 killed across the nation, including three or four booms. I tellya, we're winnin'! |
Posted by: Bobby 2006-08-11 06:53 |
#1 Good. Too bad it wasn't 35000. |
Posted by: gromgoru 2006-08-11 02:31 |