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Iraq
Truck bomber kills 135 in deadliest Iraq blast
2007-02-04
Followup from yesterday.
BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber killed 135 people on Saturday in the deadliest single bombing in Iraq since the 2003 war, driving a truck laden with one tonne of explosives into a market in a mainly Shia area of Baghdad. The blast, which Shia Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki blamed on Saddam Hussein supporters and other Sunni militants, shattered fruit and vegetable stalls, caved in shopfronts and left the smashed bodies of shoppers strewn in the street.

“It was a terrible scene. Many shops and houses were destroyed,” said one resident, Jassem, 42, who rushed from his home to help pull people from the rubble after hearing the explosion that rocked central Baghdad.

Police said 305 people were wounded. The casualties swamped the capitalÂ’s hospitals. There were chaotic scenes at Ibn al Nafis hospital in central Baghdad, where hallways overflowed with wounded on trolleys. Emergency workers dragged bodies from the debris and piled them on pickup trucks, a Reuters reporter at the scene said.
Posted by:Steve White

#5  Must have heard Hillary's "As POTUS, I will stop the war" speech, aka IRAN WINS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-02-04 23:47  

#4  Whatever happened to the banning of vehicles in public places to stop attacks just such as this? It worked in the past, do ya think it might work now?
Posted by: USN, ret.   2007-02-04 22:53  

#3  How long? 1377 years and counting.
Posted by: ed   2007-02-04 18:03  

#2  How brave is it to kill a lot of children and women buying vegetables for dinner? How long are going to wait before a mullah begins to preach that mass murder is wrong?
Posted by: whatadeal   2007-02-04 17:11  

#1  SoldiersAngels.org is taking donations from those who wish to help Iraqis injured by terrorists.

By the way, Mohammed of Iraq the Model says that this was not a mainly Shia area. He feels the media is just saying that to assist in continuing to fuel tensions in Iraq. Works for the terrorists and Democrats and MSM.
Posted by: Chomort Angaick6135   2007-02-04 14:38  

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