At least 68 Iraqis killed by insurgents since Friday: "Let Freedom Reign!"

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"People carry the coffin of 20-year-old Iraqi policeman Ali Hashim in Baghdad Sunday. Hashim was killed Saturday in Baghdad as car bombs exploded next to a police station near the heavily fortified Green Zone."

21 more Iraqis killed in separate attacks
At least 68 civilians, police die since Friday in surge of violence

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6577206/

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen ambushed a bus full of Iraqis working for the U.S. military, killing 17 civilians and wounding 13 in Tikrit on Sunday, while a car bomb and a gun attack killed four members of the Iraqi security forces elsewhere in northern Iraq.

The violence was the latest in a string of deadly attacks targeting Iraqi forces and others allied with the U.S. military that have killed at least 68 Iraqis since Friday. The surge in bloodshed has come despite major U.S. offensives last month to suppress guerrillas ahead of elections set for Jan. 30.

The gunmen opened fire from two cars at the bus as it dropped off Iraqis employed by coalition forces in Tikrit, 80 miles north of Baghdad, said Capt. Bill Coppernoll, spokesman for the Tikrit-based U.S. 1st Infantry Division.Coppernoll said 17 people died and 13 wounded in the attack, which occurred at about 8:30 a.m.

Survivors reported that the gunmen emptied their clips with a spray of gunfire into the bus, then fled, Coppernoll said. The survivors said about seven guerrillas were involved in the attack.

[jimshoes]

1. But they'll be OK

when they go to vote in a month. <sarcasm> What a nightmare chimpy has created there. :(