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February 1st, 2008, 11:05 AM
I guess nothing has really changed over there in the last while I wasn't paying attention:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7221639.stm
I guess nothing has really changed over there in the last while I wasn't paying attention:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7221639.stm
Quote:
So now the mentally challenged are a potiential weapon.... be warned. At least 64 people have been killed by two bombs in Baghdad, attached to two mentally disabled women and detonated remotely, says a security official.
"The al-Qaeda terrorists and criminals are proud of this method," Brig Qassem Ata al-Moussawi told the BBC.
The death toll in Friday morning's attacks at two animal markets was the highest in months in Baghdad.
Correspondents say a fragile sense of normality had returned to the capital following an influx of US troops.
Security has improved significantly since the US implemented its troop "surge" in the second half of 2007.
A ceasefire announced in August by the Mehdi Army militia of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr, as well as the emergence of local Sunni militia armed by the US military that took on al-Qaeda in Iraq, have also contributed to the sense of security.
Confidence shattered
But that renewed confidence could be shattered by Friday's deadly bombings, the worst to hit the Iraqi capital since three car bombs killed 80 people last 1 August.
The first device was detonated by a female suicide bomber at around 1020 local time (0720GMT) in the popular Ghazil animal market, killing at least 46 people and injuring a further 80.
A popular spectacle for Baghdadis, the animal market only opens on Fridays and regularly draws large crowds, despite having been targeted by bombers twice in 2007.
Just 20 minutes after the first explosion, a second bomb tore through another crowded market in the Jadida area of east Baghdad, killing at least 18 people and injuring 30.
Iraqi security forces spokesman Brig Moussawi told the BBC: "The operation was carried out by two booby-trapped mentally disabled women. [The bombs] were detonated remotely."
"Forensic and bomb squad experts as well as the people and traders of al-Shorja area of the carpet market have confirmed that the woman who was blown-up there today was often in the area and was mentally disabled..."
"In the New Baghdad area the shop owners and customers of the pet market confirmed that the woman who was blown-up there was mentally disabled as well."
Police and medical officials piled the dead and injured into wheelbarrows, cars and the back of pick-up trucks to be transported to five hospitals across the city.
An official at the capital's Kindi hospital said at least 30 bodies had been received.
"We have a disaster here," he said. "There are too many bodies to count."
"The al-Qaeda terrorists and criminals are proud of this method," Brig Qassem Ata al-Moussawi told the BBC.
The death toll in Friday morning's attacks at two animal markets was the highest in months in Baghdad.
Correspondents say a fragile sense of normality had returned to the capital following an influx of US troops.
Security has improved significantly since the US implemented its troop "surge" in the second half of 2007.
A ceasefire announced in August by the Mehdi Army militia of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr, as well as the emergence of local Sunni militia armed by the US military that took on al-Qaeda in Iraq, have also contributed to the sense of security.
Confidence shattered
But that renewed confidence could be shattered by Friday's deadly bombings, the worst to hit the Iraqi capital since three car bombs killed 80 people last 1 August.
The first device was detonated by a female suicide bomber at around 1020 local time (0720GMT) in the popular Ghazil animal market, killing at least 46 people and injuring a further 80.
A popular spectacle for Baghdadis, the animal market only opens on Fridays and regularly draws large crowds, despite having been targeted by bombers twice in 2007.
Just 20 minutes after the first explosion, a second bomb tore through another crowded market in the Jadida area of east Baghdad, killing at least 18 people and injuring 30.
Iraqi security forces spokesman Brig Moussawi told the BBC: "The operation was carried out by two booby-trapped mentally disabled women. [The bombs] were detonated remotely."
"Forensic and bomb squad experts as well as the people and traders of al-Shorja area of the carpet market have confirmed that the woman who was blown-up there today was often in the area and was mentally disabled..."
"In the New Baghdad area the shop owners and customers of the pet market confirmed that the woman who was blown-up there was mentally disabled as well."
Police and medical officials piled the dead and injured into wheelbarrows, cars and the back of pick-up trucks to be transported to five hospitals across the city.
An official at the capital's Kindi hospital said at least 30 bodies had been received.
"We have a disaster here," he said. "There are too many bodies to count."
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February 1st, 2008, 10:05 PM
Bombings like these are the acts of the coalition, it's easy to blow up a preset bomb in a crowded market and say it was female terrorists. It's routinly done.
Bombings like these are the acts of the coalition, it's easy to blow up a preset bomb in a crowded market and say it was female terrorists. It's routinly done.
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February 2nd, 2008, 01:25 PM
As for Gopher and Avro.....Yep, guys, that makes good sense. Islamofascist terrorist blow up a bunch of their fellow Muslim, guilty only of being bystanders, using two Down's Syndrome women as human bombs, and all the moronic left can come up with is "It is all the fault of George Bush"
****ING SPARE ME!
Quoting darkbeaver
On occasion, you really do appear to be a complete idiot..........this would be one of those times.
Bombings like these are the acts of the coalition, it's easy to blow up a preset bomb in a crowded market and say it was female terrorists. It's routinly done.
As for Gopher and Avro.....Yep, guys, that makes good sense. Islamofascist terrorist blow up a bunch of their fellow Muslim, guilty only of being bystanders, using two Down's Syndrome women as human bombs, and all the moronic left can come up with is "It is all the fault of George Bush"
****ING SPARE ME!
