Breaking: 127 dead in Baghdad bombings.

[babylonsister]

Source: CBS

Breaking: 127 dead in Baghdad bombings.

CBS News: “A parked car bomb detonated in a crowd of workers at a Shiite marketplace in Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 82 people, police and hospital officials said. The attack was one of four bombings in Baghdad on Wednesday afternoon, which killed at least 127 people in total, officials said.”

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/18/breaking-127-dead-in-baghdad-bombings/

[TwilightGardener]

1. This has to do with the Al-Sadr parliament members leaving, I'll bet.

[antiimperialist]

16. I don't think so

The bombings took place in Sadr city and another mainly Shiite neighborhood. It seems to be the work of Sunni insurgents or Al Qaeda.

[msongs]

2. will the war criminals in the white house lower flags over these dead people? nt

[saigon68]

19. Nope they are Islamics who wear funny clothes

If they don't have $ the chimp and cheney want nothing to do with them

[jmc247]

The sooner we leave

The sooner the car bombs will stop.

[The Stranger]

3. That is almost four times the number that died at Virginia Tech.

And that is just one day in Bush's Baghdad.

[Barrett808]

12. Multiply by ten to get US equivalent

Taking into account the relative populations of both countries, that's about 1270 people. In one day.

[Ganja Ninja]

4. Time to send over our "healer in chief". n/t

[Buzz Clik]

5. It seems that deaths among Iraqis is increasing. Is this what they meant by "surge"?

[Roland99]

6. Good thing we sent an extra 25,000 targets...er...troops over there.

:(

[Connie_Corleone]

7. But, you can still buy rugs for $5. That's what counts.

[cal04]

8. 4 bombs kill 127 people in Baghdad

Four large bombs exploded across Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 127 people and wounding scores as violence climbed toward levels seen before the U.S.-Iraqi campaign to pacify the capital began two months ago.

In the deadliest of the attacks, a parked car bomb detonated in a crowd of workers at the Sadriyah market in central Baghdad, killing at least 82 people and wounding 94, said Raad Muhsin, an official at Al-Kindi Hospital where the victims were taken.

A police official confirmed the toll, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.

Among the dead were several construction workers who had been rebuilding the mostly Shiite marketplace after a bombing destroyed many shops and killed 137 people there in February, the police official said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070418/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_070418122739

[SpiralHawk]

9. "Don't worry. I'm perfectly comfortable and safe." - Commander AWOL

"unfortunately, VP Dickie 'Five Military Deferments' and I have suffered
a few paper cuts while counting up our massive war profits, but we will be okay.

"Hey, where's OUR purple hearts? And, oh yeah, almost forgot the talking point of the day:
too bad about your kids in uniform, and the Eye-rakis and all that. Where are those WMDs?

"Finally, I would like to say: Terra, terra, terra, etc."

- Commander AWOL

[Monkeyman]

10. From They AWOL President ITS HARD WORK

[global1]

11. Will The WH Comment On This Today Be: Shows The Surge Is Working......nt

[underpants]

13. Yeah but just imagine of we leave* think of the carnage

*by "leave" that means not really leaving as we still have to guard the massive US embassy/spy house being constructed at previously unprecedented profit margins and we still will have forces in Qatar and/or Kuwait and probably considerable forces in Iraq and not just the Fobbits either

[antiimperialist]

17. Then we'll have to go to Iran

Where after finding a peaceful country, we will create chaos, but we'll have to be forced to stay because the chaos we created could become even GREATER if we leave.

[pampango]

14. Damn Bush and damn the butchers behind the whole car bomb

and suicide bomber industry whether they are in Iraq, Algeria or Morocco. (:

[ckramer]

15. I bet that's the resistance's strategy - i.e. kill as many ...

...Iraqis as possible until people are fed up with the US occupation.

And then there will be a real civil war. More deaths and more deaths...The killing will go on and on...

And when everything is settled, Saddam II is back to power.

Mission possibe!

[maddezmom]

18. More Than 150 Dead In 4 Baghdad Blasts

More Than 150 Dead In 4 Baghdad Blasts

BAGHDAD, April 18, 2007
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(CBS/AP) A parked car bomb detonated in a crowd of workers at a Shiite marketplace in Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 112 people, police and hospital officials said.

At least 94 others were wounded in the blast, said Raad Muhsin, an official at Al-Kindi Hospital where the victims were taken. A police official confirmed the toll, on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.

The attack was one of four bombings in Baghdad on Wednesday afternoon, which killed more than 157 people in total, officials said.

In another Baghdad attacks, about an hour earlier, a suicide car bomber crashed into an Iraqi police checkpoint at an entrance to Sadr City, the capital's biggest Shiite Muslim neighborhood and a stronghold for the militia led by radical anti-U.S. cleric Muqtade al-Sadr.

That explosion killed at least 30 people, including five Iraqi security officers, and wounded 45, police said.

more:http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/18/iraq/printable2697982.shtml

[Flagg]

20. Bring'em on, cried the AWOL chimp!!!!

[saigon68]

29. "BRING EM ON" shouted the AWOL CHIMPANZEE

ONCE MORE FOR OLD TIMES SAKE

[newportdadde]

21. Population percentage wise they just had a 9/11 death toll event.

[maddezmom]

22. Car bombs kill 170 in Baghdad after PM's pledge

Car bombs kill 170 in Baghdad after PM's pledge
18 Apr 2007 14:32:15 GMT
Source: Reuters

By Dean Yates and Paul Tait

BAGHDAD, April 18 (Reuters) - Car bombs killed nearly 170 people in Baghdad on Wednesday in the deadliest attacks in the city since U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a security crackdown aimed at halting the country's slide into civil war.

One car bomb alone in the mainly Shi'ite Sadriya neighbourhood killed 118 people and wounded 139, police said.

The apparently coordinated attacks -- there were five within a short space of time -- occurred hours after Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said Iraq would take security control of the whole country from foreign forces by the end of the year.

More than 200 people were wounded in total.

more;http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L18255866.htm

[maddezmom]

24. another 35 dead in and around baghdad

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, April 18
18 Apr 2007 17:20:11 GMT
Source: Reuters
More April 18 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1700 GMT on Wednesday:

* denotes new or updated item.

* BAIJI - Gunmen killed three people in an attack on a vehicle near Baiji, north of Baghdad, police said. Those killed were the son of Iraq's deputy interior minister and his two bodyguards.

* RAMADI - Another 25 decomposed bodies were found in a school in Ramadi, 110 km (70 miles) west of Baghdad, police said. The latest discovery came a day after 17 bodies were found in a deserted school in Ramadi.

* MOSUL - Eight bodies were discovered in Mosul, 390 km (240 km) north of Baghdad, a hospital source said.

* MOSUL - One army officer and a civilian were killed in a roadside bomb attack in Mosul's east, police said. Another three police were wounded.

more:http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L18184964.htm

[aquart]

25. Since medical facilities have little to offer anymore...

How many of the wounded will simply die off the books? Do we even bother to find out?

[maddezmom]

26. I don't know the answer, but I've often thought about it

and posted about it many times. :(

[acmavm]

23. I wonder what it's like, having to be afraid of being murdered

by either the US, Iraqi police, Al Quaeda, Sunnis, or Shi'ites.

I cannot imagine what life must be like for a child over there.

[saigon68]

30. VT pales in comparison.

But then again they are only islamics

</sarcasm>

[Supersedeas]

27. Nothing to see here--feed them more debates about the necessity of carry conceal

[Gen. Jack D. Ripper]

28. Failed liberation

Can we declare this liberation effort failed now? Oh, no, wait, it wasn't a liberation effort so much as it was a elimination effort. Eliminate the threat Saddam Hussein posed to US safety and security. Well, now, uh, he's dead..and he wasn't that much of a threat anyway. BUT, that isn't important because the really REAL reason for the invasion was to combat terrorism. By..drawing the terrorists into Iraq to take pot-shots at Iraqi civilians and US service men and women..To, you know, uh, alleviate stress..blow off some steam! Yeah, alright! Now I get it. Good job, George. Way to think outside the box.

[Eugene]

31. Bombs kill nearly 200 in Baghdad after PM's pledge

Source: Reuters

Bombs kill nearly 200 in Baghdad after PM's pledge

By Dean Yates and Paul Tait
24 minutes ago

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Car bombs killed nearly 200 people in Baghdad
on Wednesday in the deadliest attacks in the city since U.S. and
Iraqi forces launched a security crackdown aimed at halting the
country's slide into civil war.

One car bomb alone in the mainly Shi'ite Sadriya neighborhood
killed 140 people and wounded 150, police said, making it the worst
insurgent bomb attack in Baghdad since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

-snip-

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070418/ts_nm/iraq_dc

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Related: FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, April 18 - Reuters

According to the Factbox, over 240 persons were killed or
found dead in Iraq Wednesday.

[maddezmom]

32. Death toll from blast in Baghdad's Sadriya 140-police

Death toll from blast in Baghdad's Sadriya 140-police

BAGHDAD, April 18 (Reuters) - The death toll from a car bomb in Baghdad's mainly Shi'ite neighbourhood of Sadriya on Wednesday rose to 140, with 150 wounded, police said.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L18614436.htm