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| Suicide bomber kills 50 in Iraq |
| 2011-01-18 |
| A SUICIDE bomber blew himself up among a crowd of police recruits in the Iraqi city of Tikrit yesterday, killing 50 people and wounding 150. The blast in the insurgency stronghold was the deadliest since an October 31 siege at a Baghdad church left 53 people dead, and was the first major attack since the formation of a new government on December 21. The bomb site in the middle of Tikrit, the home town of executed dictator Saddam Hussein, 160km north of the Iraqi capital, was covered in pieces of flesh and pools of blood, with clothing and shoes scattered across the scene. Loudspeakers from the city mosques were calling on people to donate blood for the wounded. The recruits, applying for 2000 new jobs that Iraq's Interior Ministry recently approved for Salahuddin province, had been queuing to enter the centre since 6am, with the attacker detonating his payload at the entrance about 10.15am (6.15pm AEDT). The attack starkly displayed the Iraqi forces' failure to plug even the most obvious holes in their security as the US military prepares to withdraw from Iraq at the end of the year. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #6 The Disney people could teach them a thing or two on how to structure queues. Yeah and make sure the overhead speakers piped in a continous sound track of "Its a Small World, After All," in those fingernails on blackboard voices. I don't think the Geneva Convention has any articles on Mickey Mouse |
| Posted by: USN,Ret 2011-01-18 22:12 |
| #5 The problem is keeping the jacket wallahs away from those waiting, whether they're bunched up and pushing or happily winding through half a mile of beribboned posts. Has Disneyland addressed that problem? (I'm sure they'd find an answer that kept the guests happy while sorting them from the bad guys, but I haven't heard that anything has changed since I was there in ~1999.) |
| Posted by: trailing wife at the car shop 2011-01-18 15:44 |
| #4 The Disney people could teach them a thing or two on how to structure queues. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2011-01-18 14:12 |
| #3 That's one way to reduce the unemployment rate - hope Zero isn't watching. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2011-01-18 13:25 |
| #2 Look up inshallah, Anonymoose. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-01-18 12:30 |
| #1 Seriously, haven't the Iraqis learned some other way of doing things than with rock concert style queues? |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-01-18 09:51 |