Reuters Iraq attacks kill 43

[rodeodance]

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By Ibon Villelabeitia Sat Jun 17, 5:02 PM ET

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A series of bombs killed at least 43 people in and near Baghdad on Saturday, police said, in one of the bloodiest days in
Iraq since a U.S. military air strike killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi 10 days ago.


The violence, a day after a suicide bomber killed 10 people in a Baghdad Shi'ite mosque, came despite a security crackdown in the Iraqi capital and followed a vow by al Qaeda's new leader in Iraq to avenge the death of his predecessor on June 7.

The attacks, which included at least four Baghdad car bombs, posed a fresh challenge to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who is under pressure to ease a violence that has killed thousands of Iraqis and complicated plans for a U.S. troop withdrawal.

In the deadliest attack, a car bomb struck an Iraqi police checkpoint in a Shi'ite area southwest of Baghdad, killing at least 12 people and wounding 38, police said.

[Warren Stupidity]

1. So the bodies just pile higher and higher.

And still we call for more more more.

[Mike Nelson]

4. "Make the pie higher."

NOW, it makes sense!

[johnfunk]

2. Makin GOOD progress, Chucklenuts! HECKUVA job...

... oy gewalt...

[Halliburton]

3. BUT THE PUPPET MASTER PACIFIED BAGHDAD WITH HIS MASSIVE CRACKDOWN

that's at least that's what the media told me!

[saigon68]

8. "BRING EM ON" shouted the DRAFT DODGING WAR CRIMINAL CHIMPANZEE

[qanda]

5. Shouldn't Bush have stayed away

Instead of inflaming an already volatile situation. They just don't seem to get it!

[Eugene]

6. Back to "normal" in only 10 days...

and 70,000 troops in Bagdad are not stopping it.

If this is the "insurgency" at the brink of collapse,
I'd hate to see them when they are winning.
Can we call this "violence" a civil war yet?

[wellst0nev0ter]

7. Thank GAWD For "Operation Forward Together"

Or else the country would have been in the middle of a full fledged civil war with rivers of blood running the streets