Suicide car bomber kills 8 in Iraq

[maddezmom]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide car bomber struck a police checkpoint near a market Wednesday in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, killing at least eight people and wounding 31, police and hospital officials said.

The explosion occurred about 10:30 a.m. as the area in central Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, was filled with shoppers.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070221/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_violence_7

Suicide car bomb explodes short distance from Najaf holy shrine

BAGHDAD (CNN) -- A suicide car bomb exploded at a busy Iraqi police checkpoint in the holy city of Najaf Wednesday morning, killing at least eight people and wounding 43 others, police said. Among the casualties were police and civilians.

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/02/21/wednesday/index.html


Suicide car bomber kills 11 in Iraq's Najaf
21 Feb 2007 09:04:53 GMT
NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb exploded at a police checkpoint near a busy market in the holy Shi'ite city of Najaf on Wednesday, killing 11 people, a doctor at a local hospital said.

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The bodies of a woman and a young child lay near the mangled wreckage of the car. The charred corpse of the bomber was nearby.

With a few major exceptions, Najaf, home to Iraq's most senior cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has been spared much of the violence rocking Baghdad and other areas where Shi'ites, Sunni Arabs and ethnic Kurds live side by side.

The U.S. military transferred Najaf province to Iraqi forces last December, though the move was largely symbolic as it had been largely under Iraqi control for some time because of religious sensitivities.

more:http://mobile.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL132190.htm

[Amonester]

1. but... but... but... what happens to the m$m shills' so called...

huge $uck-ce$$ of bu$che's "in everybody's faces" $urge??

[maddezmom]

2. Bombs wound 19 in Kirkuk

* KIRKUK- A car bomb in a market wounded 10 people in the ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. Two roadside bombs also exploded in quick succession in a bus terminal in the centre of the city, wounding nine peope, police and hospital source said.

http://mobile.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PAR128207.htm

[maddezmom]

3. 2 Iraqis killed and seven wounded by car bomb laced w/ poisonous gas

-- Two civilians were killed and seven were wounded when a car bomb laced with poisonous gas exploded near a hospital in southwestern Baghdad's Bayaa neighborhood Wednesday.

Twenty-three other civilians had been hospitalized with respiratory problems caused from the noxious gases earlier

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/02/21/wednesday/index.html

[Eugene]

4. Reuters: Suicide car bomber kills 13 in Iraq's Najaf

Suicide car bomber kills 13 in Iraq's Najaf
21 Feb 2007 11:23:34 GMT
Source: Reuters

(Updates toll, adds detail)

NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb exploded at a police
checkpoint near a busy market in the holy Shi'ite city of Najaf
on Wednesday, killing 13 people, and wounding 35 more, a police
spokesman said.

Captain Hadi al-Najafi, an explosives expert, said police had
been searching the bomber's car when it exploded. He said four
policemen and two women were among the dead.

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Full article: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL132190.htm

[Eugene]

5. Reuters: Car bomb kills two in Baghdad's Sadr City (Najaf toll now 13)

Car bomb kills two in Baghdad's Sadr City
21 Feb 2007 14:25:15 GMT
Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, Feb 21 (Reuters) - A car bomb killed at least two people
and wounded four in the Baghdad Shi'ite stronghold of Sadr City
on Wednesday, police sources said.

The bomb exploded outside a restaurant in a market district of
Sadr City, the sources said. The district has often been attacked
by Sunni insurgents.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PAR151691.htm

(BBC News)

Last Updated: Wednesday, 21 February 2007, 12:18 GMT

Car bomb in Najaf leaves 13 dead

A car bomb has exploded in the central Iraqi city of Najaf,
killing at least 13 people, police have said.

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Full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6381545.stm