Iraqis cry – “When will this stop?” - Bush's Iraq puppet government meets

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http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2006/May/focusoniraq_May97.xml§ion=focusoniraq

BAGHDAD - Bombs killed 24 people in Iraq on Saturday, including 19 in a Shia district of Baghdad, hours before Iraq’s parliament was to inaugurate a national unity government aimed at halting a slide toward civil war. Police said 58 were wounded in the blast targeting Shia labourers in eastern Sadr City slum. It was typical of bombings by Sunni Islamists like Abu Musab Al Zarqawi’s Al Qaeda in Iraq.

Witnesses and police said the bomb appeared to have been planted in a spot where the attackers knew large crowds of men would gather shortly after dawn, hoping to be hired for a day’s casual labour. Such spots have been targeted in the past.

“When will this stop? Where is the government?” one teenager sobbed as he stood amid pools of blood. A man beat his face with his hands as he hugged his dead brother lying on the floor. Survivors rushed the wounded to hospital. A dozen bodies, their faces covered with cardboard, lay on the hospital garden.

In the town of Qaim, near the Syrian border, a suicide bomber detonated his explosive-packed vest inside a police station killing five policemen and wounding 10, police said.

[leftchick]

1. never!

chimpy said this week he will never give in....

[biscotti]

2. I feel so badly

for the average Iraqi and for our National Guard troops trapped there.
It was all so unnecessary.