Iraqi TV: Soccer field blast kills 18 children

[maddezmom]

http://mobile.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IBO757866.htm

will look for another link

:cry:

Iraqi TV: Soccer field blast kills 18 children
POSTED: 11:17 a.m. EST, February 27, 2007
Story Highlights• 18 children playing on soccer field killed in blast, Iraqi TV reports
• Police: U.S.-Iraqi security plan is forcing insurgents to change tactics
• Bombings Tuesday hit ice cream shop, eatery, parking lot
• Suspect arrested in failed assassination of Iraqi vice president

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A bomb exploded Tuesday at a soccer field on the outskirts of Ramadi, killing 18 children, Iraqi TV reported.

The source of the explosion was a car bomb, Reuters news agency reported.

The soccer field is in western Ramadi -- capital of the Sunni-dominated Anbar province. The children were playing on the field when the blast occurred, Iraqi TV reported.

The soccer field attack followed terrorist bombings at a popular ice cream shop, a parking lot and a restaurant that killed eight people and wounded 24 in Baghdad on Tuesday.

Iraqi police say they believe new coalition security tactics are forcing insurgents to shift bombing attacks away from parked cars in the streets to alternative locations.

more: http://us.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/27/iraq.main/index.html

[Buzz Clik]

1. Dear god.

Someone remind me why we are fighting there.

[patrice]

2. More Redirection . . . .

:cry:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. CNN now has it. DAMN YOU, GEORGE!

damn damn damn damn.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/27/iraq.main/index.html

no, change that.
replace the DA with FU and the mn with a ck.

[BeyondGeography]

4. ...

Just when you think you've heard it all...

[mcscajun]

5. Dreadful.

:cry:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. Luckily, MSNBC is covering american idle.

bastards.

[villager]

7. ah, thank God the Democrats are deciding to table any action on Iraq...

[Connie_Corleone]

9. Like Reid said, Iraq will still be there.

:grr:

[villager]

11. sure, covered with children's body parts. Thanks, Harry!

:nuke:

[Eugene]

8. Updated Reuters report: Car bomb kills 18 children in Iraq's Ramadi

Car bomb kills 18 children in Iraq's Ramadi
27 Feb 2007 16:23:19 GMT
Source: Reuters

(Adds background)

BAGHDAD, Feb 27 (Reuters) - A car bomb killed 18 children at a soccer field near
the western Iraqi city of Ramadi, state television Iraqiya said on Tuesday.

There was no immediate word from U.S. forces and Iraqi police. Iraqiya gave no
more details.

On Monday, a suicide bomber blew up an ambulance at an Iraqi police station near
Ramadi, killing 14 people including women and children, a local hospital official said.

Ramadi is the capital of Anbar province, the heart of the Sunni Arab insurgency in Iraq.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IBO758742.htm

[maddezmom]

10. another update from CNN: 18 killed between ages 10-15 and 25 wounded

18 children killed in car bombing near soccer field
RAMADI (CNN) -- A bomb in a parked car on the outskirts of the Anbar provincial capital of Ramadi on Tuesday killed 18 boys and wounded 25 at a makeshift soccer field, Iraq's Interior Ministry confirmed.

The dead boys were ages 10 to 15.

The bomb-rigged car exploded around 4:30 p.m. near an open area used as a soccer field in the Warrar area on the city's western outskirts.

http://us.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/02/27/tuesday/index.html

[leftyladyfrommo]

12. Oh, man. I think this is just getting worse and worse.

Now they are hitting the university students and the little kids.

[Name removed]

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[maddezmom]

14. I agree we should have never gone there

as for the rest of your post :thumbsdown:

[brooklynite]

15. New update: US troops responsible, injuries only...

Reuters reports a controlled blast by U.S. soldiers near a soccer field in Ramadi, Iraq, slightly wounded 30 people, including nine children, according to a spokesman for the U.S. military. Earlier reports said 18 children were killed.

http://www.cnn.com/

[rodeodance]

16. a controlled blast by US soldiers?

[truthisfreedom]

17. Obvious bullshit. They can't have 18 children dying, can they?

[brooklynite]

18. NOW they've taken the banner down (back to original story?)

[ContraBass Black]

27. "Believe half of what you see, son, and none of what you hear."

[sakabatou]

19. Shit...

:cry:

[w8liftinglady]

20. I want to believe that we didn't cause this carnage.

[w8liftinglady]

21. Let's see how CNN spins it now...

[w8liftinglady]

22. top 3 stories ... no mention

[maddezmom]

23. CNNI is talking about it now

[w8liftinglady]

24. kyra phillips on here..no mention yet

[maddezmom]

25. iJim Clancy was just doing a quick run down on the conflicting reports

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/27/iraq.main/index.html

[w8liftinglady]

26. a brief phone interview with lieutenant-poor reception..

[ChairmanAgnostic]

31. anna nicole, anna nicole, anna nicole

that's how.

[blitzen]

28. Dick to Pentagon: "Quick, rev up the Fog of War Machine!"

[redqueen]

29. God Almighty...

:cry:

[bread_and_roses]

32. I can only echo that, and I don't even believe in god.....

god almighty....even if "only" injured...what does that mean? Limbs blown off? Blinded? What? Will the injured die in the Iraqi hospitals that have no supplies and not enough doctors? will we hear about it if they do? Whoever did it, in my book the responsiblity for unleashing this endless horror on the Iraqi people lies squarly on the Junta in power in Washington first of all, and secondly on the Congress and everyone who voted for or was silent on the powers and abuses of the WH

[daleo]

30. So, was it 18 killed by despicable Al Quada

Or 30 wounded by unfortunate U.S. "controlled blast"?

This sort of thing would be black comedy if it wasn't for all the deaths and pain behind it.

[Sabriel]

33. Picture something similar happening in Iowa or Ohio or Florida

Where's the outrage? Where are the U.S. mothers and fathers crying out against this?

I've officially come to the point where I can safely say, "I HATE THIS COUNTRY."

[rodeodance]

34. Fisk: In Iraq, The Killing Of 18 Teenagers Is A Horrible Routine

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Wed Feb-28-07 12:54 AM
Original message
Robert Fisk: In Iraq, The Killing Of 18 Teenagers Is A Horrible Routine Updated at 1:01 AM

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article2311301...

Robert Fisk: In Iraq, the killing of 18 teenagers is a horrible routine
Published: 28 February 2007

This is a story with a caution. Eighteen teenagers were killed on Monday at a football field east of Baghdad. On Sunday, equally young students of Mustansiriya University - the oldest in Baghdad - were blown up by a suicide bomber. It has become a routine, at one and the same time more horrible and more normal each day. Only two years ago, a suicide bomber drove into an American convoy in Baghdad, killing 27 civilians, half of them children taking sweets from American soldiers. What price innocence?

- snip -

But exactly what happened in Ramadi remained suspiciously unclear. The football stadium where the 18 youths were reported to have been killed was near a US base. But there are no American troops on the campus at Mustansiriya. There was talk yesterday that a local Sunni imam in Ramadi had denounced al-Qa'ida - which operates in loose co-operation with Sunni insurgent groups - and that this might have prompted a revenge attack by the organisation.

- snip -

Ramadi is a no-go area for every Westerner, including most US troops. So who set off the truck bomb near a mosque in the city which killed 52 people on Saturday? Or the ambulance outside a police station near Ramadi, which killed 14 people on Monday? Shia militiamen seeking further blood in their war on Sunni fighters? Sunni groups trying to implicate Shia? Al-Qa'ida? Or the other shadowy groups who have affiliations with the American-supported Iraqi government, with the ministries of interior or health or "defence"?

The reality is that Iraq's war now exists in a fog through which we can see only vague figures. They may be insurgents or they may be soldiers. Or they may, for all the Iraqis know, be units from the 120,000 - yes, 120,000 - Western mercenaries now believed to be operating in Iraq for any number of legal and quasi-legal organisations. These hired gunmen constitute a force almost equal to the entire US contingent in Iraq. Who do they work for? What are their rules? The answer to the first may be "everyone". The answer to the second question? None.

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[Heidi]

35. Locking.

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