WaPo:
Weeping relatives loaded simple wood coffins atop minivans Saturday in Baghdad as the city buried dozens of victims of the deadliest bombings since the U.S. flooded the capital with extra troops last spring.
Weeping relatives loaded simple wood coffins atop minivans Saturday in Baghdad as the city buried dozens of victims of the deadliest bombings since the U.S. flooded the capital with extra troops last spring.
Iraqi officials raised the death toll of Friday’s attacks to at least 99 _ including 62 people killed at the central al-Ghazl market and 37 others killed about 20 minutes later across town, at the New Baghdad area pigeon market. The Iraqi police, hospital and Interior Ministry officials all spoke on customary condition of anonymity.
At least 88 people were wounded in al-Ghazl, and 56 others in the second blast, they said.
Two mentally disabled women strapped with remote-control explosives _ and possibly used as unwitting suicide bombers _ brought carnage to the two pet bazaars, in attacks Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said sought to “turn Baghdad back to the pre-surge period.”
2 comments:
Who gets blamed for this is it Al Qaeda again. Look Iraq's current government is corrupt and working with the corrupt US White House. What does anyone expect. General Petraeus will say every thing is great and Al Qaeda did it even when he knows they haven't been in Iraq from the beginning.
So many in this country have no idea how bad things are in Iraq and how many Iraqi lives are lost, not to mention all the Iraqis that have fled to surrounding countries, and all the strain it has put on surrounding countries, There are so many Iraqi lives lost, so many families tore apart,........but the news is fast to cover and pollute the airways when some Bimbo has a nervous breakdown, and call it breaking news.
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