Car Bombs Kill 19 in Western Baghdad

[sabra]

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5091683,00.html

Car Bombs Kill 19 in Western Baghdad

Wednesday June 22, 2005 7:46 PM


BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Three car bombs exploded in western Baghdad on Wednesday, killing 19 people and wounding 48, police said.

The first two went off in front of two restaurants in the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Shula in western Baghdad.

The third, apparently driven by a suicide bomber, ran into a bus station, police Lt. Majid Zeki said.

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[maddezmom]

1. AFP: At least 18 killed in Baghdad car bombs after international forum on

21 minutes ago



BAGHDAD (AFP) - At least 18 people were killed when five car bombs exploded in Baghdad, drowning out cheers from an international forum in Brussels that trumpeted support for the new Iraq.

Three simultaneous blasts rocked the headquarters of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, a parking lot and a street in the mainly district of Shuala, an interior ministry source said, cautioning that the death could rise.

Throughout the day, a total of at least 25 people were killed and 60 wounded, including 46 in the three blasts after dark in Shuala, in various attacks around the country.

The explosions late Wednesday also soured welcome news that a Filipino hostage had been released in Iraq and would soon be flying home.

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more:http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050622/wl_afp/iraq_050622183952

[sabra]

2. last throes indeed...

[Spazito]

3. Hmmm, I wonder where they are getting the 'munitions'?

Explosives were looted after Iraq invasion
UN nuclear official cites security lapse

WASHINGTON -- Iraqi officials reported that thieves looted 377 tons of powerful explosives from an unguarded site after the US-led invasion last year, the top UN nuclear official said yesterday. And a former weapons inspector said he had counted about 100 other unguarded weapons sites that may have been stripped of munitions for use in the wave of attacks against US soldiers and Iraqi civilians.

The explosives that were looted from the Al Qaqaa nuclear facility, apparently in April and May of 2003, had been sealed and monitored by international nuclear inspectors before the invasion. The explosives were monitored because they can be used to detonate a nuclear bomb, although Iraq was allowed to keep them because they also have civilian and conventional military uses.

Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, disclosed the security lapse to the UN Security Council yesterday after receiving a letter from the Iraqi Ministry of Science and Technology earlier this month that informed him of the loss and blamed it on ''theft and looting of governmental installations due to lack of security."

http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2004/10/26/explosives_were_looted_after_iraq_invasion/

[Igel]

14. Qaaqaa ... probably two orders of magnitude less than

the total quantity of munitions available to the public the day the Iraqi Army and Republican Guard went home for lunch and never came back.

[Kipling]

4. Last throes of the insurgency... Birth contractions of the civil war.

[maddezmom]

5. updated: Car Bombs Kill 23 in Western Baghdad, wounded 56

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050622/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_car_bombs_2

[DS1]

6. If the Iraqis had the Second Amendment, they wouldn't get blown up

all the time, because concealed handguns would protect them from criminals. :eyes:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

7. make that 4 bombs, 23 killed and 56 wounded...

http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=77938

Four car bombs go off in western Baghdad



BAGHDAD, Iraq - Four car bombs exploded in western Baghdad within minutes Wednesday, killing 23 people and wounding 56, police said.
The first two went off at 9:30 p.m. in front of a grill restaurant in the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Shula, killing at least 11 and injuring 28.

The al-Haji restaurant, which sells shish kebabs and other barbecued meats, is next door to a shop selling falafel sandwiches and ice cream that was targeted by a June 10 car bomb that killed 10 people.

The third car, apparently driven by a suicide bomber, ran into a bus station a few hundreds yards away, killing at least eight people and injuring 20, police Lt. Majid Zeki and police Maj. Mousa Abdul Karim said.

The fourth explosion occurred in Baghdad's western Ameriyah suburb, said Najim Abid, a police officer in Yarmouk Hospital. Four people were killed - including a woman and child - and eight were injured.

[dArKeR]

8. 12 minutes 296 "One Star" votes - When will an Attorney General

investigate this consistant Racketeering of the NSA Blackbox on ISP servers?

Iraq Car Bombs Kill 23; Ex-Judge Slain
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050622/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_050622183954

[Roland99]

9. Is that wall not finished yet? Baghdad will soon be a separate country

Anyone seen the latest blog from Riverbend?

[ckramer]

10. Math is hard!

[NNN0LHI]

11. Four Car Bombings in Iraq Leave 23 Dead

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050622/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_050622203908;_ylt=A86.I01_8LlCcHcA_y1X6GMA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Four car bombs exploded at dusk Wednesday, killing at least 23 people, including sidewalk diners and passengers at a bus station. The coordinated attacks served as a chilling reminder of how potent militants remain in the capital despite around-the-clock American and Iraqi troop patrols.

In all, at least 32 people were killed across Iraq, including a prominent Sunni law professor assassinated by gunmen. Jassim al-Issawi was a former judge who put his name forward at one point to join the committee drafting Iraq's constitution. The assassination appeared aimed at intimidating Sunni Arabs willing to join Iraq's efforts to create a stable political system.

The U.S. military said three U.S. soldiers were killed a day earlier during combat operations west of Baghdad near the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi. At least 1,727 members of the U.S. military have died since the war began in 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

The first three car bombs — clearly coordinated — went off almost simultaneously only blocks apart in the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Shula where al-Issawi was killed only hours earlier.

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[maddezmom]

13. A Glance at Iraq Civilians, Forces Killed 6/22/05 at least 32

By the Associated Press
1 hour, 3 minutes ago



Violence in Iraq left at least 32 Iraqis dead Wednesday:


• Three coordinated car bombs killed at least 19 people and wounded 48 in Baghdad, police said.

• A suicide car bomber attacked an Iraqi army patrol, killling at least four bystanders Baghdad, police said. The dead included a woman and a child.

• Gunmen killed a former judge who had previously put his name forward to join a parliamentary committee drafting Iraq's constitution. His son also was killed in the Baghdad attack.

• A car bomb targeting a U.S. military convoy missed and instead killed three Iraqis and wounded seven in the northern city of Mosul, officials said.

more: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050622/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_victims_glance_2

[Igel]

15. Legitimate military targets?

Collaborators in shishkabobery?

Targeting those that wrongfully participate in government-sponsored, public ... transportation?

I'm obviously missing who the targets that the "suicide-bombers-are-righteous-freedom-fighters" folk must see in this. Looks to me like they're targetting civilians for the sole purpose of engendering ethnic strife and making the government seem dishonorable ... at the expense of civilians.

[dArKeR]

16. 40 minutes - 1.2 Star - 297 votes - NSA Blackbox on ISP setting the

vote counts again.
Four Car Bombings in Iraq Leave 23 Dead
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050623/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[AgadorSparticus]

17. yea..."last throes", alright. good lord, they are out in space.

someone needs to let them know that the king is naked.