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"Bring It On"
Whatever happened to that story of British Soldiers caught planting bombs anyhow?
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/30/international/middleeast/30cnd-iraq.html?hp
String of Attacks Kill at Least 110 Iraqis in Two Days
By ROBERT F. WORTH and SABRINA TAVERNISE
Published: September 30, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Sept. 30-A car bomb detonated near a fruit and vegetable market in southern Iraq this morning, killing at least eight people and wounding 41, police officials said, the latest in a string of attacks on Shiite civilians that has left at least 110 people dead in two days. The killings come a day after three car bombs killed 108 people north of the capital and as the Oct. 15 referendum on the country's constitution looms.
Forum: The Transition in Iraq
Today's car bomb went off in the town of Hilla, and killed at least two women in addition to two children, the police said. The bomb was remotely detonated about 10:15 a.m., in the al-Sharia market in central Hilla and tore into a crowded area of people shopping for food. On Thursday, three pickup trucks packed with explosives detonated in quick succession in Balad, 50 miles north of the capital, killing up to 99 people, according to some news agencies, up from initial reports of about 60, and wounding scores of others.
The death toll rose sharply overnight in Balad because American troops, who had helped to evacuate the wounded to American-run medical facilities, brought the bodies of those who had not survived to local hospitals this morning. In all, 100 people were killed and 150 were wounded in the blasts, said Dr. Qasim al-Qaisi, Balad Hospital's manager.
Thursday's attacks appear to have been coordinated for maximum damage. The first bomb went off at 6:30 p.m., tearing into a crowd of shoppers at an open-air market and workers making their way home on Masraf Street, one of Balad's main boulevards, hospital officials and witnesses said.
The second car bomb detonated 10 minutes later across the street, just as crowds of emergency workers and police officers were arriving to help the wounded. The third blew up 10 minutes later in a residential area that is predominantly Shiite, like the area hit by the first two, Interior Ministry officials said.
Also on Thursday, American military officials announced that five United States soldiers had been killed by a roadside bomb, in the deadliest single day for American forces in Iraq in almost two months. The soldiers were killed Wednesday while conducting combat operations in Ramadi, an insurgent stronghold in Anbar Province, west of Baghdad, military officials said in a statement, without providing further details.
"Bring It On"
Whatever happened to that story of British Soldiers caught planting bombs anyhow?
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/30/international/middleeast/30cnd-iraq.html?hp
String of Attacks Kill at Least 110 Iraqis in Two Days
By ROBERT F. WORTH and SABRINA TAVERNISE
Published: September 30, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Sept. 30-A car bomb detonated near a fruit and vegetable market in southern Iraq this morning, killing at least eight people and wounding 41, police officials said, the latest in a string of attacks on Shiite civilians that has left at least 110 people dead in two days. The killings come a day after three car bombs killed 108 people north of the capital and as the Oct. 15 referendum on the country's constitution looms.
Forum: The Transition in Iraq
Today's car bomb went off in the town of Hilla, and killed at least two women in addition to two children, the police said. The bomb was remotely detonated about 10:15 a.m., in the al-Sharia market in central Hilla and tore into a crowded area of people shopping for food. On Thursday, three pickup trucks packed with explosives detonated in quick succession in Balad, 50 miles north of the capital, killing up to 99 people, according to some news agencies, up from initial reports of about 60, and wounding scores of others.
The death toll rose sharply overnight in Balad because American troops, who had helped to evacuate the wounded to American-run medical facilities, brought the bodies of those who had not survived to local hospitals this morning. In all, 100 people were killed and 150 were wounded in the blasts, said Dr. Qasim al-Qaisi, Balad Hospital's manager.
Thursday's attacks appear to have been coordinated for maximum damage. The first bomb went off at 6:30 p.m., tearing into a crowd of shoppers at an open-air market and workers making their way home on Masraf Street, one of Balad's main boulevards, hospital officials and witnesses said.
The second car bomb detonated 10 minutes later across the street, just as crowds of emergency workers and police officers were arriving to help the wounded. The third blew up 10 minutes later in a residential area that is predominantly Shiite, like the area hit by the first two, Interior Ministry officials said.
Also on Thursday, American military officials announced that five United States soldiers had been killed by a roadside bomb, in the deadliest single day for American forces in Iraq in almost two months. The soldiers were killed Wednesday while conducting combat operations in Ramadi, an insurgent stronghold in Anbar Province, west of Baghdad, military officials said in a statement, without providing further details.
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