Car bomb kills 25 at Baghdad market

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Car bomb kills 25 at Baghdad market

By RAVI NESSMAN, Associated Press Writer
15 minutes ago

BAGHDAD - A parked car bomb ripped through a packed outdoor market
in southwestern Baghdad on Tuesday morning, killing 25 people and
injuring 60 others, despite a 3-month-old security crackdown meant
to reduce violence in the capital.

The deadly blast occurred about 10 a.m. in the Shiite-dominated
neighborhood of Amil, damaging a nearby medical center, turning
buildings into charred husks and setting a line of cars on fire,
police said.

The neighborhood has seen an increase in violence in recent weeks,
and Sunni politicians expressed fears that Shiite militiamen had
resumed their campaign of sectarian cleansing in Amil and nearby
neighborhoods of southwestern Baghdad.

-snip-

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070522/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

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Source: Reuters

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, May 22
22 May 2007 09:34:33 GMT
Source: Reuters

May 22 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq
at 0900 GMT on Tuesday:

* denotes new or updated item.

* BAGHDAD - At least 25 people were killed and 60 wounded when a car
bomb exploded near a popular market in Amil district in southwestern
Baghdad, police said.

* BAGHDAD - At least four college students were killed and 25 wounded
in a mortar attack at Ibn al-Haitham college in Adhamiya district in
northern Baghdad, police said.

-snip-

BAGHDAD - The bodies of 24 people were found shot in different
districts of Baghdad on Monday, police said.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KAM228181.htm

[ClintonTyree]

1. Or, as they call it in Iraq..........

Tuesday. When does the full effect of "THE SURGE" kick in now? :shrug: I was under the impression that we were already "surging" but from what I read it will be months until it's fully implemented. And then another few months.......and another few months after that.

Bush is counting on a miracle, or the end of his pResidency, as a benchmark for the success or failure of "THE SURGE". Success is pretty much out of the question, barring said miracle, so I guess the Bush "plan" is to keep this clusterfuck going until he can slough it off onto the next President. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! :eyes:

[DRoseDARs]

2. Just another day in rural Indiana... n/t

[SpiralHawk]

3. "On the bright side, I'm having a great vacation." - Commander AWOL

"Things are just peachy out here at the Imperial Pig Farm Upon Crawford. Oil profits are WAY up, so thanks to all you loyal citizens for your generous DONATIONS at the gas pump. Oh yeah, too bad about all the dead people and stuff."

- Commander AWOL

[Eugene]

4. Gunmen kill eight students in north Baghdad-police

Source: Reuters

Gunmen kill eight students in north Baghdad-police
22 May 2007 13:33:01 GMT
Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, May 22 (Reuters) - At least eight college students were
killed and another three wounded when gunmen opened fire on their
minibus in northern Baghdad on Tuesday, police said.

The students were travelling to their homes in Tunis, a religiously
mixed district of the Iraqi capital, when gunmen in a car sprayed
their bus with bullets.

No other details were immediately available.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L22431920.htm

[Eugene]

5. Update at OP link (At least 100 killed or found dead in Iraq)

Source: Associated Press

Baghdad market bomb kills 25, hurts 60

By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer
12 minutes ago

BAGHDAD - A car bomb exploded Tuesday at an outdoor market
in a Shiite area of Baghdad, killing 25 people and wounding at
least 60 — the deadliest in a string of attacks that stoked
sectarian tension in and around the capital.

-snip-

There were other signs Tuesday that Sunni-Shiite tensions are
again rising after they eased last winter following the start
of the Baghdad security operation Feb. 14.

-snip-

At another fake checkpoint near Baqouba, 35 miles northeast
of Baghdad, gunmen killed six people from one family — a woman,
her 5-year-old son and four men — and stole their car, police
said. It was unclear whether the victims were Sunnis or Shiites.

-snip-

In all, at least 100 Iraqis were killed or found dead nationwide
Tuesday, according to police. They included 33 people found shot
execution-style — presumably by sectarian death squads — and
their bodies scattered across Baghdad.

-snip-

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070522/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq