Bombings, Shootings Kill at Least 30 in Iraq

[ProSense]

Bombings, Shootings Kill at Least 30 in Iraq

By Ellen Knickmeyer and Omar Fekeiki
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, May 9, 2006; Page A19

BAGHDAD, May 8 -- Bombings and shootings killed more than 30 people in Iraq on Monday, including at least a dozen men apparently taken to Sunni neighborhoods of Baghdad and killed execution-style.

Much of the violence was sectarian in nature. Attacks included Sunni insurgent strikes on targets of the Shiite-led government and U.S. forces, and killings by what appeared to be sectarian death squads.

Also on Monday, a roadside bomb killed an American soldier southeast of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. The military reported that another American soldier was killed in fighting Sunday near the northern city of Tall Afar.

In central Baghdad, a car bomb exploded near a courthouse, killing five Iraqi civilians, police told news agencies. Another bomb, planted in a car in the mixed Sunni-Shiite neighborhood of Palestine Street, targeted a patrol of Iraq's heavily Shiite police force, police Gen. Abdulrahman al-Dulaimi said. The blast killed a passerby.

Gunmen in the capital ambushed a bus carrying employees of the Ministry of Higher Education to work, killing two men on the bus and wounding eight other passengers, Dulaimi said. The body of one man lay in the door of the bus, and another just outside, as women wept and rush-hour drivers peeled around the scene.

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[SunDrop23]

1. Fortunately the insurgency is in its last throes.... (nfm)

[Harper_is_Bush]

2. I know for a fact bombings have killed WAY more than 30 in Iraq.

Nevermind shootings even.

[izzie]

3. The news from Iraq just makes one sick.

I read about women to day, in I think it was the Christian Science, and it just brings tears to the eyes. How the USA could have had a hand in this is some thing we can not forgive in this country. Bush and Congress should be run out of town.

[Oversea Visitor]

4. What price... Freedom?

To bush it is just a word. An empty word. FREEEEEDOM. How many little children died since he say those words? How many man and women died since he say those words? Oh know we cant let you know.
It is top secret, no counting allow.

Why are we all not allow to know? WHY? :cry:
A million souls has passed away
A million more on the way
Who knows who knows
But one day history be told
Truth then be known
What US did
The taint on its Country soul
As generations around the world
Those to come and those now here
Look at deed with eyes of tears
Can one not wonder
The burden to come
Rest on the shoulders
Of the little ones
These young American too little to know
Of the shames and burdens
Place so harshly on their future road
All for the price
of bush little game

What price...... Freedom?

[paparush]

5. Cheney says we've turned the corner...more like turned a blind eye

turned their backs on humanity
turned in their membership cards to the human race