Defend yourselves, politicians urge Iraqis

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Source: Tribune news services

BAGHDAD -- The unrelenting carnage across Iraq continued Sunday, with at least 50 people killed in explosions, shootings and strangulations, a day after up to 150 people were killed in the suicide bombing of a northern Iraq marketplace.

Prominent Shiite and Sunni politicians called on Iraqi civilians to take up arms to defend themselves after a weekend of violence that claimed more than 220 lives.

Sunday's deadliest single incident, a bus ferrying 45 Iraqi police recruits from the western city of Fallujah to a training center west of Baghdad exploded near Abu Ghraib, killing at least 18 and injuring the others, Iraqi police said. The bus had been rigged with explosives, according to authorities.

Two bombings Sunday resulted in the deaths of up to eight people in Baghdad's central neighborhood of Karradah, a mostly Shiite area that has been considered one of the city's safest districts. A third Baghdad bombing resulted in three more deaths, and police in the capital also reported the recovery of 29 bullet-riddled bodies.


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[ckramer]

1. That's a complete joke

If the most powerful military on earth couldn't defend itself in Iraq, what made a tiny handgun get the job done?

Iraq is doomed!

[Javaman]

2. sounds like the last desperate act of a gov't that knows it's going into the shitter. nt

[Eugene]

3. Here is the final confirmation that Iraq is a failed state.

If this isn't civil war, what is?

[bemildred]

4. Iraqis are defending themselves.

Hello?