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Iraq |
Baghdad clears wreckage, searches for bodies |
2006-09-02 |
![]() State television, which said the toll had risen to more than 67 dead and 300 wounded, called it a rocket attack but then interviewed an Iraqi army spokesman who repeated the alternative version that militants had planted explosives in buildings. “Terrorists planted explosives inside the buildings,” Brigadier General Kassem al-Moussawi told Iraqi television, echoing a fellow general and explosives expert who said within four hours of the blasts that they went off in apartments and shops rented recently by militants who rigged them with bombs. With little sign of forensic investigators at the blast sites, it was not clear how this conclusion was reached so soon. Hours after the first blasts, which police said were from seven Katyusha rockets, residents heard more mortar rounds go off, part of a confusing and deadly evening in Baghdad, where US and Iraqi troops began a big security crackdown last month. Four policemen were killed in two attacks on Friday. Many deaths came as families gathered for the start of the Muslim weekend. |
Posted by:Fred |