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13th May 2005, 08:30
Baghdad Suicide Bombing Kills 40, Wounds 16 in Market (Update1)
May 12 (Bloomberg) -- A suicide car bombing in a busy market in Baghdad's eastern Jadida district today killed 40 people and injured 16 others, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said.
Details on the attack weren't immediately available, ministry spokesman Adnan Abdelrahman said in a telephone interview from the capital. The market is frequented mainly by Shiite Muslims and is near a mosque and a cinema, Iraq's al- Rafidayn newspaper said, citing police.
At least 400 people, many of them civilians, have lost their lives in violence across Iraq since a partial cabinet list was approved by the country' National Assembly on April 28. The worst of the attacks was a bombing May 4 in the northern city of Arbil that left 60 people dead and wounded 150.
The market bombing was one of three today in eastern Baghdad, including an attack near a police station, U.S. Master Sergeant Greg Kaufman said in a telephone interview. He said he wasn't able to provide more information. Five civilians were wounded in a second blast, a road-side bombing in western Baghdad, Al-Jazeera television reported. Abdelrahman said the market blast was the only bombing in Baghdad today.
Supporters of the ousted Sunni Muslim-dominated regime of Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda-linked militants are trying to destabilize the new government of Prime Minister Ibrahim al- Jaafari, according to analysts including Sajjan Gohel of the London-based Asia Pacific Foundation that advises the European Union on counter-terrorism.
`Last-Ditch Attempt'
``Insurgents want to discredit the government before it can take off in implementing its policies,'' Gohel said in a telephone interview yesterday. `The string of attacks that we've seen in the past weeks may even be a last-ditch attempt to do that.''
Victims of the Baghdad market bombing were taken to three different hospitals in the capital, Al-Jazeera said. Many market stalls and 18 cars were destroyed in the explosion, it said.
Three separate attacks in the northern city of Kirkuk today left one person dead and five others hurt, al-Rafidayn reported.
U.S.-led forces are in the fifth day of an offensive the military said is aimed at eliminating insurgents from desert hideouts in the western province of al-Anbar, bordering Syria. The Iraqi government said the rebels fled to the area from Fallujah, west of Baghdad, to escape an assault on the city by the military coalition in November.
Two U.S. Marines were killed and 14 wounded late yesterday in the desert operation, the military said today. The Marines died after their vehicle was bombed 7 kilometers (4 miles) east of the town of Husaybah, Marine Captain Jeffrey Pool said in an e-mailed message from Ramadi, capital of al-Anbar.
Yesterday's deaths bring to five the number of U.S. military members killed in the offensive. Three Marines died earlier in the operation, the U.S. military's biggest since the assault on Fallujah, which is also in al=Anbar province.
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WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON??? The rebels are bombing shit in marketplaces - WTF?? This ain't the proud rebellion of Fallujah or Najaf. This is murder, cold blooded. I know the Americans did far worse with their bombs, but these are fellow Iraqi's opposed to America.
This is not right, this is not the rebellion of before. I hope that these hardliners don't come to dominate the whole rebellion, else seas of innocent blood will spill.
Opinions? Is Abu Mussab al'Zarquawi to blame?
May 12 (Bloomberg) -- A suicide car bombing in a busy market in Baghdad's eastern Jadida district today killed 40 people and injured 16 others, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said.
Details on the attack weren't immediately available, ministry spokesman Adnan Abdelrahman said in a telephone interview from the capital. The market is frequented mainly by Shiite Muslims and is near a mosque and a cinema, Iraq's al- Rafidayn newspaper said, citing police.
At least 400 people, many of them civilians, have lost their lives in violence across Iraq since a partial cabinet list was approved by the country' National Assembly on April 28. The worst of the attacks was a bombing May 4 in the northern city of Arbil that left 60 people dead and wounded 150.
The market bombing was one of three today in eastern Baghdad, including an attack near a police station, U.S. Master Sergeant Greg Kaufman said in a telephone interview. He said he wasn't able to provide more information. Five civilians were wounded in a second blast, a road-side bombing in western Baghdad, Al-Jazeera television reported. Abdelrahman said the market blast was the only bombing in Baghdad today.
Supporters of the ousted Sunni Muslim-dominated regime of Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda-linked militants are trying to destabilize the new government of Prime Minister Ibrahim al- Jaafari, according to analysts including Sajjan Gohel of the London-based Asia Pacific Foundation that advises the European Union on counter-terrorism.
`Last-Ditch Attempt'
``Insurgents want to discredit the government before it can take off in implementing its policies,'' Gohel said in a telephone interview yesterday. `The string of attacks that we've seen in the past weeks may even be a last-ditch attempt to do that.''
Victims of the Baghdad market bombing were taken to three different hospitals in the capital, Al-Jazeera said. Many market stalls and 18 cars were destroyed in the explosion, it said.
Three separate attacks in the northern city of Kirkuk today left one person dead and five others hurt, al-Rafidayn reported.
U.S.-led forces are in the fifth day of an offensive the military said is aimed at eliminating insurgents from desert hideouts in the western province of al-Anbar, bordering Syria. The Iraqi government said the rebels fled to the area from Fallujah, west of Baghdad, to escape an assault on the city by the military coalition in November.
Two U.S. Marines were killed and 14 wounded late yesterday in the desert operation, the military said today. The Marines died after their vehicle was bombed 7 kilometers (4 miles) east of the town of Husaybah, Marine Captain Jeffrey Pool said in an e-mailed message from Ramadi, capital of al-Anbar.
Yesterday's deaths bring to five the number of U.S. military members killed in the offensive. Three Marines died earlier in the operation, the U.S. military's biggest since the assault on Fallujah, which is also in al=Anbar province.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=100...ZD4jOE&refer=us (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=at6MaaZD4jOE&refer=us)
WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON??? The rebels are bombing shit in marketplaces - WTF?? This ain't the proud rebellion of Fallujah or Najaf. This is murder, cold blooded. I know the Americans did far worse with their bombs, but these are fellow Iraqi's opposed to America.
This is not right, this is not the rebellion of before. I hope that these hardliners don't come to dominate the whole rebellion, else seas of innocent blood will spill.
Opinions? Is Abu Mussab al'Zarquawi to blame?