Setback for Bush's Plan to Declare Iraq 'Surge' a Success

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175 Dead, 200 Wounded As Four Suicide Bombs Hit One Kurdish Town In Iraq


BAGHDAD (Map, News) - Four suicide bombers hit a Kurdish Yazidi community in northwest Iraq on Tuesday, killing at least 175 people and wounding 200 others, the Iraqi military said.

The bombs tore through communities near Qahataniya, 75 miles west of Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city, according to Iraq Army Capt. Mohammed Ahmed and Abdul-Rahman al-Shimiri, the top government official in the area.

The attack was the deadliest in Iraq since 215 people were killed Nov. 23 when mortar rounds and five car bombs devastated a Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City.

Dhakil Qassim, mayor of Sinjar, a town near where the attacks occurred, said al-Qaida in Iraq was behind the attack, citing what he said were Kurdish government intelligence reports.

http://www.examiner.com/a-880844~Four_Suicide_Bombings_Kill_175_in_Iraq.html

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1. NYT says 190

4 Truck Bombs Kill 190 in Kurdish Area of Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/15/world/middleeast/15iraq.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=middleeast&adxnnlx=1187150541-PHMXmMnA2/nxeF9t+4g5XQ&pagewanted=print

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2. but but but

isn't kurdistan the safe part?!?