More good news from Iraq !

[kentuck]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/18/AR2005111800111.html?referrer=email&referrer=email

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BAGHDAD, Nov. 18 -- Suicide bombers killed nearly 100 people Friday in one of the deadliest days of Iraq's insurgency, bringing houses down on sleeping families in Baghdad and shredding Shiite Muslim worshipers in two mosques in the eastern part of the country just as the victims turned their faces up to the preachers to hear their Friday sermons.

"We had just said 'God is Great' -- and then I felt nothing but a massive explosion," Mohammed Kofiq Akram said by telephone from a hospital in Khanaqin, the northeastern town where most of the deaths occurred. Akram said his head and right shoulder had been blasted by shrapnel.


Rescuers and a U.S. military armored vehicle gather at the site where two suicide car bombers detonated vehicles in Baghdad, Iraq on Friday, in a residential district. A hotel housing foreign journalists was the apparent target, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.
Rescuers and a U.S. military armored vehicle gather at the site where two suicide car bombers detonated vehicles in Baghdad, Iraq on Friday, in a residential district. A hotel housing foreign journalists was the apparent target, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. (Khalid Mohammed - AP)


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In Baghdad, there were no casualties in a hotel that Iraqi police and U.S. soldiers said was the target of two successive bombings. But the explosions leveled the simple houses outside the hotel's blast walls, killing at least eight people.

[rzemanfl]

1. But at least they were free when they died and had the chance

to vote-so they did not die in vain. God Bless the United States of America!!!!! Oh, and the ragheads too, I suppose.

[greiner3]

2. To paraphrase;

"The invasion was a success, but the population died."

[stray cat]

3. Bush's idea of good news: How many did not die today in Iraq