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Iraq
Suicide bomber kills 30 in Iraq, including 12 children
2007-08-07
A suicide bomber sped into a Shiite village in northern Iraq Monday and blew up a truck packed with explosives, unleashing a huge blast that killed 30 people and pulverized homes. It was the deadliest attack on yet another bloody day in Iraq, where the military announced the deaths of five more US soldiers, and the overlapping insurgency and sectarian conflict sent another 15 Iraqis to their deaths.

The bomber detonated his deadly charge after driving across farmland to Al-Quba, killing 30 people, including 12 children, and flattening mud-brick houses, the mayor of nearby Tal Afar, Major General Najim Abdullah, told AFP. "It was filled with a massive amount of explosives. Twenty houses were destroyed, 10 of them entirely wiped out," said Abdullah, speaking from the nearest town some 20 kilometers away, to scramble emergency services.

Five women were among the dead and 14 people were in a critical condition in hospitals after the attack, he said. Provincial police spokesman Brigadier General Abdel-Karim Khalaf al-Juburi said 50 people were wounded.

Bombings are increasingly common in villages, as militants flee to rural backwaters away from thousands of US and Iraqi security forces cracking down on Baghdad and other flashpoint cities under a five-month-old security plan.
Witnesses said they saw foam used in making mattresses sticking out of the truck to disguise the explosives hidden underneath, Abdullah said. Bodies were pulled from the rubble of flattened homes in the village whose nearly 200 houses are built mostly from mud, and the victims were ferried to hospitals as far away as the neighboring Kurdish province of Dohuk, he said. "I was sitting at home when I saw a big truck speeding along. I went outside to watch and suddenly it exploded, its contents flung everywhere," 50-year-old Abu Qassim told AFP from his hospital bed in the northern city of Mosul. "My house was destroyed. My wife and four of my children were also wounded."

Bombings are increasingly common in villages, as militants flee to rural backwaters away from thousands of US and Iraqi security forces cracking down on Baghdad and other flashpoint cities under a five-month-old security plan.
Posted by:Fred

#4  #2 Somehow even in backwater villages they are able to obtain TONS of explosives, and set up trucks as bombs with it.
The problem is, Glenmore, that Saddam Hussein was a bas$$$$ and hid millions of tons of ammunition and explosives all over the country, just for this kind of operation. It's easier to get a gun or explosives in Iraq than it is to get a decent meal in Germany, and you can do that just about anywhere.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2007-08-07 16:37  

#3  Bombings are increasingly common in villages, as militants flee to rural backwaters away from thousands of US and Iraqi security forces cracking down on Baghdad and other flashpoint cities under a five-month-old security plan.

Why don't they just come right out and blame Bush himself?
Posted by: BA   2007-08-07 08:42  

#2  Somehow even in backwater villages they are able to obtain TONS of explosives, and set up trucks as bombs with it. That's a lot of shepherd-loads across the border from Iran or Syria - there have to be some in power who are coordinating and expediting this traffic (and not shepherd convoys either).
Posted by: Glenmore   2007-08-07 07:24  

#1  Bunch of Moslem COWARDS.
Posted by: newc   2007-08-07 02:20  

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