Explosions Kill 58 in Iraq, French Consulate Hit

[Hissyspit]

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Source: Reuters

Explosions kill 58 in Iraq, French consulate hit

Sun Sep 9, 2012 7:52am EDT

By Suadad al-Salhy and Raheem Salman

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 58 people were killed in attacks across Iraq on Sunday, including a car bomb outside a French consulate.

Iraq's conflict has eased since its height in 2006-2007 when sectarian slaughter killed thousands. But Sunni Islamists and an al Qaeda affiliate still launch about one major attack a month in an effort to reignite tensions between Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims following the U.S. military withdrawal in December.

The most serious of the bombings, blasts and shootings on Sunday happened near the city of Amara, 300 km (185 miles) south of Baghdad, when two car bombs exploded outside a Shi'ite shrine and a market place, killing at least 16 people, officials said.

"So far 16 corpses were brought to the hospital, and more than 100 people were wounded," said Sayid Hasanain, a local health official.

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[Hubert Flottz]

1. Is Iraq better off now than it was before BushCo

invaded it?

[Zorra]

2. Not for the hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of Iraqis killed, permanently disabled,

permanently scarred, displaced, or in misery because of lost loved ones, in George and Dick's not at all excellent adventure.

It's probably way better for certain 1% of Iraqis, and we know which 1% that would would be, ka-ching $, ka-ching $.

[Comrade Grumpy]

3. Sunni-Shia conflict seems to spreading across the region.

In Pakistan, they're going at each other.

The Gulf sheikdoms and the Saudis are lined up against Iran.

In Lebanon, old sectarian dispures are reawakening.

The sectarian war in Iraq has never gone away.

And then there's Syria....

[Hubert Flottz]

4. I predicted the total destabilization in the region

in 2002.

The Bush gang started a fire in the middle east, that could burn everyone on the planet's ass before it's all over.