77 killed as carnage grips post-Saddam Iraq

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77 killed as carnage grips post-Saddam Iraq

by Salam Faraj 2 hours, 38 minutes ago

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Carnage has gripped Iraq after Saddam Hussein has been executed when 77 people died in bomb attacks and December became the deadliest month for American forces in more than two years.

In the hours after Saddam swung from the scaffold in the capital, a car bomb exploded in a fish market in the town of Kufa, a triple bombing ripped through a Baghdad neighbourhood and another blew up outside a children's hospital Saturday.

Although it was not clear whether the attacks were masterminded by Saddam extremists to avenge his death, the abyss of civil strife into which Iraq has sunk since the US-led invasion has cast a shadow over Shiite celebrations.

Doctor Monther al-Ithari, the health director in the Shiite province Najaf, said 31 people were killed and another 58 people wounded by the car bombing in Kufa, most of them women and children shopping ahead of the Eid al-Adha feast.

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1. Free people gettin' their bad on

"Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things." –on looting in Iraq after the U.S. invasion, adding "stuff happens" -DR

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2. LOTS of vengeance being wreaked there in Baghdad

LOTS of killing going on to avenge death's dealings ...

This should put the DU Death Contingent into absolute Ecstasy ....

You want death ? .... There it is : Enjoy ....

extreme :sarcasm: ....