surge update: Gunmen, bombs kill 60 in Iraq

[spanone]

BAGHDAD - Gunmen using weapons fitted with silencers attacked checkpoints and suicide and car bombers targeted civilians as insurgents launched assaults in Iraq that killed dozens of people on Monday.

The attacks in different parts of Baghdad and in towns to the south, north and west of the capital appeared aimed at showing Iraqis that al-Qaida in Iraq was still a potent force despite suffering battlefield defeats in recent weeks.

In the bloodiest incident, a double car bombing killed 25 in the town of Hillah, police said, bringing the death toll across the country to 60, according to The Associated Press.

Earlier, suicide bomber wearing a vest laden with explosives and another driving a car killed at least 13 people and wounded 40 in a marketplace in al-Suwayra, 30 miles southeast of Baghdad, said Majid Askar, an official with the Wasit provincial council.

At dawn in the capital, gunmen equipped with silencers killed at least seven Iraqi soldiers and policemen when they attacked six checkpoints, while bombs planted at three others wounded several more, an Interior Ministry source said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37057717/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/?ns=world_news-mideastn_africa

[kenny blankenship]

1. I remember when news like this would spoil Americans' Thanksgiving holidays

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2006/11/alqaeda_attacks_sadr.php

We've grown so much wiser now than we were then. Iraqis and other primitive, colonized, subject nations just kill each other willy-nilly for no discernible, journalistically interesting reason. That kind of thing used to really bother us and make us question our meddling in their affairs and disputes. Thanksgiving Day 2006 was a real downer! Thank Goodness our leaders decided to just stay the course until we eventually got used to it.

[patrice]

2. Hey, is what happens MY fault if I unlock a locked arsenal & then LEAD, in some cases, profoundly

sick "children" to them?

:sarcasm:

[tekisui]

3. 75 dead according to CBS.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/10/world/main6470742.shtml?tag=stack

[spanone]

4. ugh