Bombing in Baghdad's Sadr City kills 12

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Bombing in Baghdad's Sadr City kills 12

By BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press Writer
16 minutes ago

BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber drove through a checkpoint
and blew up his car in Baghdad's Shiite district of Sadr
City, killing at least 12 people in an attack apparently
aimed at a nearby market, police and hospital officials
said.

Iraqi police fired at the attacker after he refused to stop
at the checkpoint, but he managed to detonate the
explosives, officials said. Thirty-five people were
wounded and many cars and shops were destroyed.

AP Television News video footage of the aftermath showed
the burned out and twisted wreckage of three cars — the
attack vehicle and two others beside it, one flipped onto
its roof — across the street from a police station. Pools
of water from fire hoses were stained with blood.

Meanwhile, a small Sunni Arab bloc ended its parliamentary
boycott Saturday, returning to the legislature as it
considers key benchmark legislation demanded by
Washington amid increasing pressure to end the political
deadlock.

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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070908/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[Mz Pip]

1. Do these deaths count?

I know we don't count Sunni on Sunni deaths, Shia on Shia deaths, randomly found body deaths, bullets to the back of the head deaths. So maybe these fall into one of those catagories and they aren't really deaths at all and BushCo can continue to show that violence is down. :sarcasm:

Your death doesn't count unless Bush says it does. He's the deciderer in these matters.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[ohio2007]

2. "..Meanwhile, a small Sunni Arab bloc ended its parliamentary..

boycott Saturday, returning to the legislature as it
considers key benchmark legislation .....

The summer recess ended,they came back to work. SO much for the empty threats made in August