Tal Afar toll tops record for Iraq war's deadliest attack

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Source: CNN

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Last week's suicide truck bombing in the northern city of Tal Afar is the deadliest single attack since the beginning of the Iraq war in 2003, a high-ranking Iraqi Interior Ministry official said Monday as a new death toll for the blast surfaced.

The Wednesday attack -- in which a truck packed with 4,000 pounds (1,814 kilograms) of explosives detonated in a Shiite area of the city -- was initially blamed for 85 deaths, according to an Iraqi army officer in Tal Afar who estimated the death toll Thursday. Hundreds of others were wounded.

But the Interior Ministry official said Monday that the death toll was 152, making it the war's deadliest single attack.

In a separate and apparently retaliatory attack, gunmen stormed homes in a Sunni area of the city, killing 70 people and wounding 30, according to the army officer. Forty others were kidnapped.


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/02/iraq.main/index.html

[Kagemusha]

1. Did CNN mention that these gunmen were Iraqi police?

And that they were arrested, and then let go "to prevent unrest," and then re-arrested later?

It's quite a little spectacle over there.

[MGD]

2. Go walk around in that neighborhood Senator McCain

then tell us how safe it us.

[Tempest]

4. McCain won't go anywhere

If he doesn't have 100 soldiers, three Blackhawks, two Apaches, armored vehicles and a bulletproof vest on.

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. "Let Freedom Reign!"