Car bomb explodes at Baghdad restaurant

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A car bomb exploded at a Baghdad restaurant on Monday and a police official said casualties were feared. The official said the bomb exploded in the Talibiya district of the capital. He had no further details.Insurgents have stepped up attacks since a new government was announced in late April, killing over 500 people in suicide bombings, assassinations and ambushes.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050523/wl_nm/iraq_explosion_dc_1

A car bomb detonated today outside a popular restaurant in northern Baghdad, killing and injuring an undetermined number of people, witnesses said.
The bomb exploded at lunchtime outside the Habayibna restaurant, which is located inside a three-storey building in Talibia.
Several cars parked on the street were ablaze and bodies could be seen on the street. No other details were immediately available.

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4591932

[ps1074]

1. Freedom is on the march

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[ClintonTyree]

2. What happened to the great Baghdad military offensive?

The story started out, "Iraqi led military offensive", now the truth is coming out that it's an "U.S. offensive with Iraqi soldier support". Big difference. The Pentagon and White House want us to believe that U.S. trained Iraqi soldiers are spearheading this offensive, while in reality the Keystone Kop Iraqis are cowering in the back, as usual. They don't want to kill their own countrymen.

So, I guess with all these car bombings and such, we can expect bush to declare, "mission accomplished" any time now, right? :shrug:

[maddezmom]

3. At Least Three Killed in Baghdad Bombing , 70 injured

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050523/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[LibDemAlways]

4. Under Saddam the average Iraqi could

eat in a restaurant without fear of being killed or maimed during dinner. Under Bush, his choice isn't dine out or stay in, it's which is riskier, venturing out of the house and possibly being killed by a bomb or staying at home and possibly being killed by a bomb.

The only "freedom" in Iraq today is the freedom to worry whether you and your family will make it through the day.

[maddezmom]

5. U.S., Iraqi Troops Detain About 300 People

PAUL GARWOOD, Associated Press Writer
26 minutes ago



BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi security forces backed by U.S. troops detained almost 300 suspected insurgents overnight in the largest joint U.S.-Iraqi military offensive to date, the military said Monday. Also, a car bomb detonated outside a popular Baghdad restaurant, killing at least three people and injuring more than 70, hospital officials said.


The Baghdad offensive, dubbed Operation Squeeze Play, came as the American military announced that five U.S. soldiers were killed in northern Iraq on Sunday — four in separate roadside bomb attacks and one in a vehicle accident.

Two carloads of gunmen killed Maj. Gen. Wael al-Rubaei, a top national security official, and his driver in Baghdad's latest drive-by shooting. The killing came a day after another senior government official, Trade Ministry auditing office chief Ali Moussa, was shot dead — part of an ongoing terror campaign that has killed more than 550 people in less than one month.

In other violence, a suicide bomber killed five people and injured 13 when he drove an explosives-packed pickup truck into a crowd of people outside a municipal council office in Tuz Khormato, 50 miles south of the northern city of Kirkuk, said police commander Lt. Gen. Sarhat Qader.

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more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050523/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[pretzel4gore]

6. only 20 plus million to go...

better watch family/friends of this 300...especially men who already working as collaborators....

[maddezmom]

7. Insurgents kill 15 in new Iraq attacks

By Michael Georgy
29 minutes ago


BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Guerrillas attacked a Baghdad restaurant and detonated a suicide truck bomb outside a mayor's office, as a deadly campaign aimed at toppling Iraq's new U.S-backed government killed at least 15 people on Monday.


Police said a car bomb blew up outside a restaurant in northern Baghdad at lunch time, killing at least four people and wounding more than 100.

The truck bomb exploded near the mayor's office in the town of Tuz Khurmatu, south of the oil city of Kirkuk, killing five and wounding 18.

Insurgents also struck in Samarra, targeting a U.S. base with two car bombs and a suicide bomber strapped with explosives, killing four Iraqis and wounding four U.S. soldiers.



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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050523/wl_nm/iraq_dc

[maddezmom]

8. updated: at least 26 and wounded 130

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Guerrillas bent on toppling Iraq's new U.S.-backed government detonated bombs at a Baghdad restaurant and a Shi'ite mosque on Monday, part of a series of attacks that killed at least 26 and wounded 130.


In the deadliest attack, a car bomb exploded at lunch time outside a northern Baghdad restaurant, killing eight people and wounding around 90, police and hospital officials said.

Later, a suicide car bomber targeted a Shi'ite mosque in Mahmoudiya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, killing seven people and wounding 23, many of them children, doctors said. Five of those killed were from the same family, they said.

"The kids were playing outside the mosque when a car came up quickly and then exploded," said witness Mohammed Awad. "So many women and children were injured."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050523/wl_nm/iraq_dc

[dArKeR]

9. Isn't this the first time the Whore Media has used the word 'guerrillas'?

In 10 more years of war between Iraq and The Bush Crime Family, the Media Whores might even be brave enough to use the word 'rebels'!