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Diesel1:
Baghdad market bomb 'kills 121'
At least 121 people have been killed and 226 injured in a lorry bombing at a market place in central Baghdad, Iraqi security officials have said.
Police say the truck blew up in the al-Sadriya district as people bought food ahead of a night-time curfew.

It shattered stalls and left a huge crater in the street, in the heavily populated, predominantly Shia area.

Only the Sadr City bombings in November, which killed more than 200 people, have claimed more lives.

Regular targets

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki blamed loyalists of the executed former leader Saddam Hussein for the al-Sadriya attack.

"The Iraqi people and the world is shocked by this... The Saddamists have returned to commit a new crime," he said.


 Everybody knows the necessity for us to stand together and reject the sectarian tension
Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani
 

"We reassure the population that we will put an end to these crimes."

Maj Gen Jihad al-Jaberi of the interior ministry told state television the truck was carrying one tonne of explosives that were detonated by a suicide bomber.

Rescuers pulled the dead and injured from the rubble of the blast and loaded them on to pick-up trucks to be ferried to hospital.

Wards and corridors overflowed at the nearby Ibn al-Nafis hospital, with relatives screaming for help for their loved ones.

One injured man at Ibn al-Nafis told Reuters news agency: "I was in my shop and there was a great explosion and the roof fell in on me. I woke up here in hospital."

The same market was hit by car bombs on 2 December that killed more than 50 people.

Another attack, on the Haraj market in Baghdad on 22 January, killed 88 people.

BBC world affairs correspondent Mike Wooldridge says the attacks on markets are widely seen as militant groups deliberately stepping up their activities before a new joint Iraqi-US security operation for Baghdad gets under way.

The US is to deploy an extra 21,500 troops.

Kirkuk attacks

On Saturday, Iraq's most prominent Shia cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, made a new appeal to all Iraqis.

"Everybody knows the necessity for us to stand together and reject the sectarian tension to avoid stirring sectarian differences," he said.


Earlier, seven car bombs in the ethnically mixed northern city of Kirkuk killed five people and injured 40.

Two of the bombs targeted the headquarters of two Kurdish parties - the Kurdish Democratic Party led by of Massoud Barzani, head of the northern Kurdish region, and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, headed by Iraq's President, Jalal Talabani.

Razqar Ali, a Kurdish leader and head of Kirkuk provincial council, accused militants of trying to destabilise the city amid efforts by some Kurds to include it in the autonomous Kurdish region.

A curfew was imposed after the blasts and would run from 1600 (1300 GMT) to 0600 on Sunday, AFP news agency said.

Earlier, police said gunmen attacked a checkpoint near Samarra, killing six police and injuring another six.

Samarra is a mainly Sunni town 125km (80 miles) north of Baghdad where an attack on an important Shia shrine last February sparked Iraq's current sectarian violence.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6327057.stm

Dos Equis:
Geeze.  Animals.   >:(

 :'(

240 is Back:

--- Quote from: Diesel1 on February 03, 2007, 10:37:35 AM ---Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki blamed loyalists of the executed former leader Saddam Hussein for the al-Sadriya attack.

"The Iraqi people and the world is shocked by this... The Saddamists have returned to commit a new crime," he said.

--- End quote ---

What a dickless POS.

Get your f'king country under control.  Period.

Stop getting our men killed.  You've had the full realm of resources under your thumb and haven't been abot to assemble a simple police force.

Get the fk out of office, put in someone who isn't incompetent and get the job done.

Diesel1:
Stuff like this should show people just why Saddam (God rest his soul) had to be so fucking brutal

Camel Jockey:

--- Quote from: Diesel1 on February 03, 2007, 10:54:42 AM ---Stuff like this should show people just why Saddam (God rest his soul) had to be so fucking brutal

--- End quote ---


Yeah.

The assholes there know the higher the death toll, the more pressure on America to pull out.

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