Car Bomb Explosion Kills 30 in Iraq

[Bhaisahab]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=1&u=/ap/20040617/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_explosion

- A sport utility vehicle packed with artillery shells slammed into a crowd of people waiting to volunteer Thursday for the Iraqi military, killing at least 30 people and wounding at least 132, authorities said. A U.S. military officer said the bombing was believed to be a suicide attack.

[thebigidea]

1. well, that should boost recruitment

[saigon68]

18. SACRIFICIAL LAMBS FOR THE SLAUGHTER

U.S. Major Trish Morris (L) embraces a female Iraqi officer trainee, during their ceremony after ten weeks of training in the Jordanian city of Zarqa, June 17, 2004. Some 850 Iraqi army officers consisting of Kurds, Sunnis and Shi'ites, graduated in Jordan on Thursday after receiving training in internal security, democracy reinforcement and fighting terrorism. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji


ON EDIT: Notice how the nice MAJOR MORRIS has to train her PUPPETS in Jordan for fear that the Resistance is going to blow their BRAINS OUT prior to completion----'


LOL
Oh well here are a few more who will "BITE THE DUST" soon

[saigon68]

2. It's now 32 DEAD

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040617/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_blast_040617080636&e=1

[R Hickey]

3. The Republicans must be rating this Yahoo story a 'ONE'

I rated it a "five" but some republicans have gotten the numbers down to "three" something.

[Zech Marquis]

4. and he said what yesterday?

"life has improved in Iraq", or something to that effect? Somebody needs stop living in denial :eyes:

I for one wouldn't consider no electrical power in 110 deree heat, no job, no safe water, and constant, evermore dangerous violaence as nether an improvement nor freedom!

[Mental]

5. Damn

[teryang]

6. It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood

[leftchick]

7. AP: 35 Dead, 138 Wounded....

The Carnage....



This guy is arrested for being pissed off at the US about it...




A U.S. Army soldier arrests an Iraqi man who was yelling abuse at troops, who arrived on the scene after a car bomb explosion outside a recruiting center in Baghdad, June 17, 2004. A suicide car bomber killed 35 people and wounded 119 at an Iraqi military base on Thursday, as guerrillas intensified a bloody campaign to sabotage plans for U.S.-led occupation to give way to Iraqi rule on June 30. REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz

[underpants]

11. 35? Geesh I heard that this morning and almost dropped my coffee

35?

Yeah those pictures are what it must have been like. NBC reported that DOZENS of artillery shells were in the car/truck that exploded.

Yikes.

[leftchick]

13. Then there is this guy...

An Iraqi medic looking for body parts....



An Iraqi medic searches for body parts after a car bomb explosion outside a recruiting center in the capital Baghdad, June 17, 2004. A suicide car bomber killed 35 people at an Iraqi military base in Baghdad as guerrillas intensified a bloody campaign to sabotage plans for U.S.-led occupation to give way to Iraqi rule on June 30. Photo by Ali Jasim/Reuters REUTERS/Ali Jasim


... fucking aWol* chimpass* war! :grr:

[Scurrilous]

22. Body-part picker-upper...

...Iraq's fastest growing career sector.

[cal04]

8. Car Bomb Kills at Least 41 Outside Iraqi Army Base

A powerful suicide car bomb ripped into a throng of men waiting this morning to sign up for the new Iraqi army outside the army’s main recruiting station in the heart of the capital, killing at least 41 people and wounding more than 100, hospital officials said.

The bomb went off around 9 a.m. in the upscale Mansour neighborhood and sent a thick plume of smoke over the Baghdad skyline. The explosion threw bodies into the air and scattered them across a four-lane road. Cars burst into flames. Charred shrapnel rained from the sky.

The car bomb was the deadliest single one in months. It came after several days of powerful bombings in Baghdad, and at a critical time for the Iraqi army. Many soldiers refused to fight during the uprising in April, and the Americans are now desperately trying to recruit and train a reliable force that can begin taking over security after June 30, when the interim Iraqi government will assume limited sovereignty.

But the explosion raised questions about whether the Americans and Iraqi security forces can even protect those men who are willing to sign up.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/17/international/middleeast/17CND-BOMB.html?hp

[dbt]

9. Question for the Obedient Media of the United States of Murka:

Why the FUCK do you well-groomed airheads think this is happening? (I realize you don't actually THINK anymore, but humor me for a minute.) What is the ONE COMMON THEME of all these suicide attacks? WHO are they ultimately aimed against?

WHY is there violence in Iraq 24/7? WHY is there no security, no electricity, no running water? WHY are our troops getting picked off one by one by one by one?

Your first answer is that the US is an OCCUPYING FORCE. Violence is how citizens respond to occupiers.

Now, why are we an Occupation Force? This one is going to give you trouble. We are an Occupation Force because your boy bu$h lied this country into a War For Profit AND YOU HELPED HIM DO IT.

Face it, boys and girls, there's no there there. There are no WMDs, no nukes, no poison gas, no nerve agents. There are no drones capable of spraying Miami within 45 minutes. None of the justifications for this Testosterone Rampage that you so faithfully parroted have turned out to be true. Your precious bu$h LIED. He mounted an invasion of a basically unarmed country just so Dick Cheney could get richer.

Here's the short answer. The US is the target of all this violence because we have no damn business being in Iraq. The rest of the fucking WORLD knows it. They've known it all along. What part of bu$h Lied do you not understand?

Now, tell me again what an evil bastard Bill Clinton was for getting a blowjob.

:argh:
dbt

Porno star or news anchor? You decide.

[leftchick]

10. excellent rant dbt!

In addition, the constant message of calling the resistance fighters "terrorists" by the media Hos repeating the misadministration meme is particulary galling to me.

:grr: :grr: :grr:

[qwertyMike]

12. Post that in Free Republic n/t

[underpants]

14. Capitalism

Sudden violent capitalism-people trying to improve their position BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY whether they are Iraqis or not. You want capitalism you've got it and the best part is that it is working-Sadr gets a seat at the table and may be asked to run for parliament. Crime does pay, for Cheney as well as for THESE murderers.

[truth2power]

15. Excellent post, dbt!

I wish I could be assured that at least SOME of the media who have prostituted themselves before the Bush throne these past 4 years would read it. The media is at least as culpable as Bush. They share the responsibility for moving this country in the direction of fascism.

I think this says it all, "What part of bu$h Lied do you not understand?"

[jdj]

17. yes! and then some!

Cost to taxpayers of 9/11 investigation? about 3 or 4 million$
Cost to taxpayers of Clinton blow-job investigation? about 72 million$

Value of having 90 to 95% of media in your back pocket? priceless!

[Cocoa]

16. damn liberal media

what about reporting on all the Iraqis that DIDN'T die today?

[colonel odis]

19. check out the new '05 ford explorer! it carries a family of 5,

groceries, soccer equipment, and enough artillery shells to level a city block!

[daleo]

20. Some liar this morning on CNN

Claimed that the bomb didn't get any Iraqi military or police, just innocent pedestrians nearby or heading for a local park. I doubted it at the time. It seemed unlikely that there would be that many pedestrians in close proximity unless they were milling around or lined up at the recruiting station, presumably to apply for jobs. The implication was that this was random, mindless terrorism instead of an attack on what were seen to be people collaborating with the U.S. installed regime. Innocent people are killed either way, but the political and tactical meanings are very different.

It was sort of a gang lie - an army guy, and the new Iraqi president - maybe the journalist reporting as well.

[saigon68]

21. VERY NASTY PHOTO OF VICTIM

Iraqis remove a dead body from the scene of an explosion in central Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites) Thursday June 17, 2004. A car slammed into a crowd of volunteers outside a civil defense recruiting center and exploded, killing at least 35 people and wounding at least 138, police said. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

LINK PHOTO RATED nc-17

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index&cid=1059

GO TO IRAQ PHOTO 19

[leftchick]

23. This is the only "liberated" Iraqi I found saigon...

Did you mean this photo?



The body of a man is lifted out of the back of an ambulance at the Karkh hospital following a blast outside an army recruitment and Iraqi Civil Defence Corps center in Baghdad.(AFP/Ahmed al-Rubaye

[saigon68]

25. No a hell of a lot worse than that

The dude was shredded like paper in a document shredder. They deleted it already. I was surprised Yahoo had it at all.

[hightime]

24. Iraqi Civil Defense Corps..........hired thugs

I wonder how much they pay these guys to hunt down and kill neighbors that simply want their country back under Iraqi control instead of under a puppet government. Pssst....we can see the strings.