At least 45 killed in wave of Baghdad attacks

[Judi Lynn]

At least 45 killed in wave of Baghdad attacks
POSTED: 2:05 p.m. EDT, August 31, 2006

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Mortar attacks and bombings killed at least 45 people and wounded 180 others Thursday across the Iraqi capital in the latest wave of apparent sectarian violence, police officials said.

In Shiite neighborhoods of southeastern Baghdad, forty-three people died and at least 160 were injured Thursday in five attacks using mortar rounds and explosions.

Also in the southeastern neighborhood of Mashtal, a car bomb killed two people and wounded 13 others near a gas station, police said.

In other blasts Thursday, three people were wounded when a bomb exploded near a restaurant on eastern Baghdad's Palestine Street, police said.
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/31/iraq.main/index.html

[sabra]

1. ....

:-(

[applegrove]

2. The Iraqi people don't deserve this. Nobody deserves a slow war.

[Az_lefty]

3. this sounds like yesterdays news, or maybe the day before that

or the day before that. :cry: