Suicide bomber kills 102 in Baghdad

[QMPMom]

Suicide bomber kills 102 in Baghdad
By KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writer
44 minutes ago

A suicide truck bomber struck a market in a predominantly Shiite area of Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least 102 people among the crowd buying food for evening meals, the most devastating strike in the capital in more than two months.

The attacker was driving a truck carrying food when he detonated his explosives, destroying stores and stalls that had been set up in the busy outdoor Sadriyah market, police said.

The late-afternoon explosion was the latest in a series of attacks against commercial targets in the capital as insurgents seek to maximize the number of people killed ahead of a planned U.S.-Iraqi security sweep.

Many of the injured were driven to the hospitals in pickup trucks and lifted onto stretchers.

"It was a strong blow. A car exploded. I fell on the ground," said one young man with a bandaged head, his face still streaked with blood.

Officials said at least 102 people were killed and more than 200 wounded.

More at link:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070203/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_070203154625

[Little Wing]

1. It's still safer than Detroit

:sarcasm:

/actual right-wing argument

[etherealtruth]

2. Yeah ... we have hundreds dying in our streets daily

(I "got" your sarcasm, I'm just expanding on it :()

[brokensymmetry]

7. Good point.

So, since our own cities have such a problem...maybe
we should bring the troops home?

(And I'm not being at all sarcastic about bringing
our troops home. We've squandered too much blood,
too many tears, and far too much money in Iraq. As
for intangibles like global respect...I'd best not
even go there.)

[etherealtruth]

8. I'm with you as far as bringing the troops home ...

This was one huge cluster"F" from the word go ... I just think we have financial obligations to rebuild after the chaos we have unleashed:(

[brokensymmetry]

13. In a moral sense, certainly.

Were the case tried in the Hague, we'd probably be obligated in
a legal sense as well.

The problem is...I think we've created a really big mess. We've
only seen the beginnings of the trouble - trouble that will grow
and spread no matter what we do from here on out. We don't have
the money to rebuild. Oh, maybe a power plant here, a water facility
there, a few dollars to the families of the (many) dead - but
that would only be a first installment.

We're like a belligerent drunk that goes into a high-dollar
store with lots of fragile crystal and breaks things. We couldn't
pay the bill in a hundred years.

Sounds like really bad karma to me...

[etherealtruth]

14. I agree

The truly horrific part of this is that this outcome was easily predicted. Careful planning and execution of that plan may have minimized this chaotic outcome ... but, the truth is it was imbecilic (aside from immoral) to militarily attack this country (and I am in no way a defender of Saddam Hussein).

I have no doubt our children (and our children's children) will pay (in many senses of the word) for our actions.

[MidwestTransplant]

11. Yeah just ask Brit Hume. I am waiting for him to take his family to vacation in Baghdad.

[OregonBlue]

3. Faux news now saying 121 dead and rising.

[etherealtruth]

4. This is so horrible

All of this was tragically predictable

[lancdem]

5. I know

:cry:

[QMPMom]

6. Yes, it's *much* safer than the good

old crime-ridden USA........ :sarcasm:

And the "surge" will help stop it, dint'cha know. :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[antiimperialist]

9. Overall, 130 have been killed or found dead throughout the country

reports ABC.
The day is not over, so this number is likely to rise.

link

[xchrom]

10. welcome to the surge.

[jannyk]

12. BBC: Bomb killls 135 Maliki blames Baathists

Death toll climbs to 135 in truck bombing, over 300 injured.

<<Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki blamed loyalists of the executed former leader Saddam Hussein for the al-Sadriya attack. "The Iraqi people and the world is shocked by this... The Saddamists have returned to commit a new crime," he said

"We reassure the population that we will put an end to these crimes.">>


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6327057.stm





/typo

[wellst0nev0ter]

15. Why Not Blame The Salafists?

They are just as much of boogeymen as the "saddamists" :eyes: