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| star-traveller |
| quote: | Bomb kills many in Iraq holy city
The bomb caught people in the street heading for prayers
A car bomb has killed at least 55 people and injured about 70 in the Iraqi city of Karbala, in the second such attack in two weeks.
The city houses two of Shia Islam's holiest shrines and reports say the bomb went off on a busy street as people headed to pray.
The bomb exploded near the golden-domed mosque of the Imam Abbas shrine, which is protected by a barrier.
A suicide bomber killed at least 42 people in Karbala on 14 April.
Karbala is the second most important shrine city for the Shia, the BBC's Andrew North reports from Baghdad.
He notes that attacks on shrines have become a hallmark of extremist Sunni Muslim groups, particularly al-Qaeda.
The group claimed responsibility for the bombing last year of another major Shia shrine, in Samarra, which sparked the sectarian violence that has torn through the country ever since, our correspondent adds.
Crowd fury
Iraqi television images from Karbala showed a man running down a smoke-filled street holding a lifeless baby above his head.
Ambulances had rushed to the scene, in a crowded area full of shops and restaurants in the city, 100km (70 miles) south-west of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
Angry people gathered at the blast site, many of them searching frantically for missing relatives, The Associated Press reports.
Some began to throw stones at the police, accusing them of failing to protect the people.
Police fired weapons in the air to disperse the crowds, the agency says.
Earlier, the powerful Shia cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, criticised US President George W Bush for refusing to establish a timetable for a US troop withdrawal from Iraq.
In a statement read out on his behalf in the Iraqi parliament, the cleric said the situation in Iraq could not be any worse following an American pull-out than it was already. |
Bomb kills many in Iraq holy city
How many more Iraqi's life the US want to spare before they will get a hell out of there? |
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| erdega |
| they will get out when enough of their soldiers die. Iraqis are expendable at best or better as dead |
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| Fir3start3r |
| quote: | Originally posted by star-traveller
How many more Iraqi's life the US want to spare before they will get a hell out of there? |
Spare us the terrorist apologies; they would have done it if the US was there or not.
This kind of mind-less slaughter was entrenched in their psyche way before the U.S. was even a country... |
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| shaolin_Z |
| quote: | Originally posted by Fir3start3r
Spare us the terrorist apologies; they would have done it if the US was there or not.
This kind of mind-less slaughter was entrenched in their psyche way before the U.S. was even a country... |
ROFL. Put down the pipe Jeff :D. |
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| Fir3start3r |
| quote: | Originally posted by shaolin_Z
ROFL. Put down the pipe Jeff :D. |
This house...is clean...
;) :p |
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| star-traveller |
| quote: | Originally posted by Fir3start3r
Spare us the terrorist apologies; they would have done it if the US was there or not.
This kind of mind-less slaughter was entrenched in their psyche way before the U.S. was even a country... |
Iraqi people are not terrorists, previous Iraq government and Sadam Hussein have nothing to do with terrorists.
Only after the US invaded and occupied this country the slaughter began. |
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| erdega |
| quote: | Originally posted by Fir3start3r
Spare us the terrorist apologies; they would have done it if the US was there or not.
This kind of mind-less slaughter was entrenched in their psyche way before the U.S. was even a country... |
spare us your imperialist agenda, US and its allies are aggressors funding all types of terrorist organizations and doing all the slaughter. Americans control this and they can end it tomorrow if they admit defeat and pay reparations |
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| hardcore trancer |
| quote: | Originally posted by Fir3start3r
Spare us the terrorist apologies; they would have done it if the US was there or not. |
No they wouldnt have and you know it too.There was no killing and bombings and no Al Quada before the U.S invasion.Yes saddam was a bad leader blah blah blah :o |
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| erdega |
http://www.myfoxhouston.com/myfox/p...TY&pageId=3.4.1
Bloody Month For US Troops In Iraq
Nine American troops have been killed in Iraq - bringing to 99 the number of US military who have died in the war-torn country this month.
The US military says three soldiers and two Marines died during combat operations in western Anbar province.
And a further four soldiers were killed by two roadside bombs southeast of Baghdad, in attacks that injured three other troops.
The five who died in Anbar were assigned to a multinational force and were killed on Friday.
The military did not say whether all of them were killed in the same operation and did not give a precise location.
Names were withheld pending notification of their families |
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| Fir3start3r |
| quote: | Originally posted by star-traveller
Iraqi people are not terrorists, previous Iraq government and Sadam Hussein have nothing to do with terrorists.
Only after the US invaded and occupied this country the slaughter began. |
uh....I'm talking about the terrorists there Sparky...NOT the Iraqis so when you guys are finished putting words in my mouth to fill your own agendas, then we'll talk... |
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| Fir3start3r |
| quote: | Originally posted by hardcore trancer
No they wouldnt have and you know it too.There was no killing and bombings and no Al Quada before the U.S invasion.Yes saddam was a bad leader blah blah blah :o |
And you need to learn some facts.
No killings and bombings before the U.S. invasion?? Wow, those really are some rose colored glasses... |
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| hardcore trancer |
| quote: | Originally posted by Fir3start3r
And you need to learn some facts.
No killings and bombings before the U.S. invasion?? Wow, those really are some rose colored glasses... |
show me proof that the Iraqis were killing/bombing eachother everyday when Saddam was in charge. :rolleyes: |
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