BAGHDAD, Feb. 1, 2007
Suicide Blasts Kill 45 At Iraqi Market
150 Others Wounded After Two Men Blow Themselves Up In Crowd
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The attackers strolled into the Maktabat outdoor market in the center of Hillah about 6 p.m. as shoppers were buying food for their evening meals. Police said they thought one of the men appeared suspicious and stopped him.
The bomber then detonated his explosives and the second attacker, who was walking behind him, set off his, police added.
The attack killed 45 people and wounded 150, said Capt. Muthanna Khaled, police spokesman in the southern province of Babil, of which Hillah is the capital.
Hillah, about 60 miles south of Baghdad, was the scene of one of the deadliest attacks in the war, when a suicide car bomber killed 125 people on Feb. 28, 2005.
Also, car bombs struck mostly Shiite targets in Baghdad on Wednesday, and the bodies of three Sunni professors and a student were found days after they were seized while leaving their campus in a Shiite part of the city.
At least 43 people were reported killed across Iraq, including a U.S. soldier.
The violence underscored the extreme difficulties facing the capital's 6 million residents as they try to go about their daily lives as U.S. and Iraqi forces gear up for a planned security sweep to clear the city of Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias who are blamed for many of the attacks.
Maamoun Abdel-Hadi said he was standing with a friend near his car when a mortar shell fell on the predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Azamiyah in northern Baghdad. The area was hit by nine mortar shells that damaged houses, shops and streets, killing six people and wounding 20, police and hospital officials said.
"We fell on the ground ... I saw four wounded persons lying on the ground and screaming for help. We put them in the car and rushed them to the hospital," Abdel-Hadi said. "We are peaceful people who have nothing to do with any militias or armed groups. What is the guilt of innocent children, women and men who were walking in the street?"
Jamal Ahmed mournfully examined his Mitsubishi car that had been burned in the attack.
"Repairing my car will cost me a fortune, yet I thank God because I am safe and unhurt," he said.
The mortar attack struck about 2 p.m., hours after car bombs hit Shiite targets elsewhere in the capital in what has become a common pattern in the violence plaguing Baghdad.
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- It's truly amazing that some in this nation continue to support Sir Lies-A-Lot but now it's been revealed that he AGAIN has lied to us. He isn't sending 21,000 more troops to Iraq... NOOOOOOOOOOOO! He's sending many more according to the CBO. That's right folks this "honorable born again" man has lied to all of us yet again.
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- Singingrick you sir are a LIAR! PURE AND SIMPLY A LIAR! Anyone who say's Christian's do not want to kill anyone just simply knows NOTHING of history or of this conflict that's been going on for 2000 years. I, as a college student, boarded a bus for Selma Alabama. When we arrived and got off we were met by your kind, you know the born again Christian's and Sparky YOU wanted to KILL us. Not only did you say so, it showed VERY clearly in your eyes. Since then I've confronted Fundies from the Religious Reich on several ocassions, heard them PRAY for the death of Supreme Court Judges and BLAME the attack on folks like ME so people would hate me. Why? Because I refuse to agree with you and your religion. So to put it as straight forward as I can sir, YOU ARE A LIAR!
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- Radical Bible assumptions spread hate & fear
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- Singinrick,, You still preaching Zionism ??
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- On CSPAN General Casey Jr. just told Senator Warner of the Senate Armed Services Committee that he was not aware of any War Gaming for the New Iraqi Surge Plan! He was unaware if the plan had even been tried on Paper! This General is suppose to be the General in Charge of the Iraq War! General Casey is under consideration for the Chief of Staff of the Army and he is not aware if the Iraq Surge Plan we are debating had ever been War Gamed to determine plausibility, probability of Success, or any type of Course of Action Analysis has been done to determine a possible acceptable outcome! He should be drummed from the service as this is total dereliction of Duty. To Send 21,000 more troops to a war where the plan had never been analyzed for success to his knowledge is Criminal Negligence! Who would send a soldier in to war plan without ever War Gaming the Scenario first?
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