At Least 75 Killed in Baghdad Bombings
Hundreds Wounded in Attacks Around Shi'ite Districts
At least 75 people were killed today and hundreds of others wounded as bombers attacked a number of Shi’ite mosques, shopping malls and markets in and around the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.
The apparently coordinated bombings were just the latest in a long string of attacks in the nation, as violence has continued to trend upward over the past several months and has spiked since the March 7 election.
So far it is unclear who is responsible for today’s attacks, but speculation is that they are retaliation for the al-Qaeda killings announced earlier this week. Since it is just one of three major spates of bombings in as many weeks, however, that assertion may not be the case.
Two bombings earlier this month in Baghdad saw the killing of 54 people and 50 people, respectively. Another attack involving troops dressed in fake US uniforms massacring 25 Sunnis, mostly members of the Awakening Council.
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Heathcliff_Maw
April 23rd, 2010 at 7:48 pm
I bet most Iraqis have learned to miss the good ole days under Saddam's iron fist.
lydia
April 23rd, 2010 at 10:10 pm
Bush had given Israel unfettered access to the Persian Gulf under the guise of training Arabs to defend themselves against a possible Iranian invasion. The new Obama admin sensibly put the kibosh on another Shrub stupidity.
I think the same mob behind the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh is in all probability again up to their dirty tricks, trying to prove how invaluable they are to the West. A Sunni vs Shiite civil war might just do the trick and sway public opinion.
What is not yet obvious, is whether they are acting on their own in pi**ing off the Shiites/Iran or in collaboration with the US and the Saudis. Israeli sp.forces running around in Arabs Countries under US auspices is tantamount to total insanity with some 150,000 GIs within a hairs breath of Iran’s trigger finger.
Aladinsane
April 24th, 2010 at 2:41 am
Probably feels like fine corinthian leather fist nowdays.
Aladinsane
April 24th, 2010 at 3:19 am
Same mob…Mossad
US…sp.forces…nobs
Hey…it's an office party
With controlled insanity
Saudis…Carlyle
It's been awhile
Victory through deception
The supreme infection
E. A. Costa
April 24th, 2010 at 3:36 am
Ah yes, "Al Qaeda in Iraq", was it, which did not exist before the US invasion and occupation.
Then suddenly–"Al Qaeda in Iraq".
Hmmm.
And how many Israelis in sanitized uniforms, contracted by American Companies and the US government, were prancing around Iraq during those early days of the great US victory?
How many Neo-Cons in official US occupation positions, in spheres where they had no expertise at all?
Strange days indeed, strange….
jack toads
April 24th, 2010 at 3:45 am
i thoght deraugatory irony and bad poetry were my jobs,what yer inferring is that some sort of foreigner or worse an accidental tourist,no foreigners,now get out ,this means me brother,will every one not born in Iraq please leave so aul quackula can finish thair bizarre little forms of consensus,even if they did get a day in court they'd probably be totally censored,not even allowed to refudiate or accept guilt shame or liberty,granted,taken away,they'll never print a page in that town again that ain't writ on or outta blood and guts,Israeleez,special black ops,manchurian canidates deployed,only the/ir grave digger knows for ?oo,sure
Aladinsane
April 25th, 2010 at 12:23 am
My haiku
is even worse
behold
accepting guilt, then shame
the grave digger and known fate
melding feign and deception
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