[Iran Press TV Latest] At least four people have lost their lives and 30 have sustained injuries after two consecutive bomb explosions ripped through a popular market south of Baghdad. An Iraqi police source who requested anonymity told the Voices of Iraq news agency that Thursday's twin blasts struck the town of Mahmoudiya -- some 32 km (20 miles) south of the Iraqi capital.
Security forces cordoned off the area after the lethal attacks and launched an investigation into the motive behind the terrorist moves. Meanwhile, ambulances rushed the wounded to a nearby hospital.
Mahmoudiya witnessed a horrendous war crime in March 2006 when five active duty US soldiers broke into the family home of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl, Abeer Qasim Hamza, raped the girl and then shot her dead along with three members of her family. The soldiers then burned the bodies to conceal evidence of the crime.
The atrocity generated public outrage within and outside Iraq. It is viewed as an expression of destruction and terror unleashed by the United States government on the people of Iraq.
It was also viewed as an expression of both the brutalization and demoralization of the US forces who are seeking to subjugate a population determined to resist foreign occupation.