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106 Dead in Iraqi Bomb Blast
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| Renegade |
What a pointless waste of life:
| quote: | HILLA, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed 105 people and wounded 130 near a crowded marketplace south of Baghdad on Monday in the single bloodiest attack in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
The bomber drove a car into a crowd of people queuing outside a government building in the town of Hilla, 100 km (62 miles) south of the capital. Many of those killed were shopping at stalls across the road.
Reuters television footage showed a pile of bloodied bodies outside the building. Smoke rose from the wreckage of burned-out market stalls as bystanders loaded mangled corpses on to wooden carts, usually used to carry fruit and vegetables.
Others were piled into the back of pick-up trucks.
"We finished now transporting the bodies from the site. There were 105 people dead and 130 wounded," said doctor Mahmoud Abdul Ridah, an official in the local health authority.
"We've called on people to donate blood and have opened a center for that," he told Reuters. "We've called on doctors from Kerbala, Diwaniyah and Najaf to come and help and they have started to arrive."
The toll makes the blast the single deadliest attack since the fall of Saddam in April 2003 and makes Monday one of the bloodiest days of the two-year insurgency.
The worst day was last March, when more than 170 people were killed in a series of suicide bombings in Baghdad and the holy city of Kerbala, just west of Hilla.
The target of the latest attack appeared to be a crowd of people waiting outside the building to get health certificates needed to apply for government jobs.
Insurgents, fighting to drive U.S. troops out of Iraq and wreck the country's transition to democracy, have often targeted people looking for state jobs. They frequently target police and army recruits but have also killed local government workers.
The attack came as Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi acknowledged Iraq's security forces were still unable to take on the insurgency without the help of U.S.-led troops.
"Iraqis should be able to start taking over more and more security responsibilities very soon," he wrote in the Wall Street Journal. "But we will continue to need and to seek assistance for some time to come." |
http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArt...99&pageNumber=1
I was a bit down after having a ty day at work but then heard this on the radio coming home and it put it all in perspective. How do people become ed up enough to consider comitting an attrocity like this to be a good idea? :( |
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| Capitalizt |
| The Islamofascists will stop at nothing to prevent an arab democracy in the middle east. It will mean the death of everything they believe in. |
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| Yoepus |
Last report says 115.
I don't think barbaric even comes close to describing the sort of savages that would do something like this.
Arabs on Arabs too, glad to see they have so much 'honor'.
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| occrider |
Not to sound unsympathetic to such a tragedy, but why don't they form the lines inside a protected building or barricaded area?
If I were in Iraq, I think I would avoid congregations of people, especially outside a government building, like the plague. :nervous: |
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| Izzy |
| quote: | Originally posted by occrider
Not to sound unsympathetic to such a tragedy, but why don't they form the lines inside a protected building or barricaded area?
If I were in Iraq, I think I would avoid congregations of people, especially outside a government building, like the plague. :nervous: |
i think most the dead were from the market place, i may be wrong though.
tragic situation indeed. these types of actions are not only acts of war agianst iraqis but humankind in general - i have no sympathy for the people who commit these acts and wish they suffer the worst deaths possible.
sadly in the battle for a civilized world there will be innocent people killed. |
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| BadBadNeil |
| The worst part is I would be willing to bet there are civilians in iraq who know who and where the people are commiting these acts yet refuse to give them up. This ins't an act against america, it is an act against their own people. Very sad. |
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| smokeape |
Gotta love those terrorists. I mean, if they had their way and took power, then what are the people to expect? Martial law, indescriminate killing, torture, and a general repression of society back into the bibical era? The saner heads ruling Iraq need to put a bounty on the heads of the terrorists. Maybe the people will get with the program then and start cashing in.
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| Jackson |
125 now isnt it?
It is stupid...i mean...why kill your own people... the whole situation is ridiculous. |
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| Michael19 |
| quote: | Originally posted by BadBadNeil
The worst part is I would be willing to bet there are civilians in iraq who know who and where the people are commiting these acts yet refuse to give them up. This ins't an act against america, it is an act against their own people. Very sad. |
yes, because americans ALWAYS report people who comit a crime.. |
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| Yoepus |
| quote: | Originally posted by Michael19
yes, because americans ALWAYS report people who comit a crime.. |
I'll let you in on a little secret here: there aren't that many americans in Iraq. There are a lot more Iraqis in Iraq!
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| TranceGiant |
| off topic, but: Renegade, where do you get those comic trips for your sig for? This is one is already hilarious but the previous one had me falling from my chair. That's exactely that kind of twisted humor I love. |
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| Renegade |
| ^^ It's from the Perry Bible Fellowship. Click on the picture and it'll take you there. |
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