Summary of attacks on election day

[Gman]

Baghdad

At least eight bombs exploded outside Baghdad polling stations, killing at least 28 people. Seven of the bombers walked up to the voting stations on foot and one used a car bomb.


Another car bomb exploded outside the justice minister's house; one security guard was killed and four others injured.


Balad

A mortar attack on a polling station killed one woman, and wounded another and her child.


Basra

A mortar shell landed near a polling station in al-Dhubbat neighbourhood, killing and injuring some people.

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[izzybeans]

1. And Baghdad Katherine Blackwell

said that Baghdad turnout was as high as 95%. he must have been speaking about the mortality rate.

[Massacure]

2. The roads are shut down, how can they use car bombs?

Someone is asleep on the job over there.

[54anickel]

3. OMG! The buses transporting voters are getting hit. I suppose these

buses were thought to be a safe way to get to the polls.

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Al-Mahawil, 80km south of Baghdad

Five people killed and 14 wounded when a bomb tore through a bus carrying voters to a polling station.

One Iraqi civilian killed and three policemen injured in mortar attack.

Polish military sources report another incident involving an explosion aboard a bus transporting voters. Three Iraqis reported killed.

[two gun sid]

4. Iraqis vote amid violence

From CNN:
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Insurgents carried out more than a dozen attacks across the country on Sunday, killing at least 25 people and wounding 71 others.

At least eight suicide bombings took place during the voting. There are reports of a ninth, but CNN has not confirmed those reports.

There were eight other types of attacks as well, including one in which insurgents identified Iraqi civilians as having voted -- based on the ink on their fingers -- and threw grenades at them, killing them.

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http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/30/iraq.main/index.html


Ink on their fingers, jesus christ, who's idea was it to mark voters and identify them for insurgents? How many headless bodies with purple fingers are gonna show up over the next week?