'Dozens dead' in Baghdad bombing

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

At least 33 people, including a local army chief, have died and 46 have been injured in a suicide attack in western Baghdad, security officials say.

The attack took place in the Abu Ghraib district, and appeared to target a group of dignitaries attending a national reconciliation conference.

It is the deadliest suicide attack in Iraq for several weeks.

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Maj Gen David Perkins, a spokesman for US forces in Iraq, told a news conference on Sunday that violence was at its lowest level since the summer of 2003.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7934615.stm

[acmavm]

1. Well Hot Damn. Glad we're only taking 12,000 out by August

2010. We are apparently gonna need the cannon fodder.

[Tim01]

2. Tell me if I am the only one who sees it this way.

It looks to me like they are probably going to start cutting each other to pieces as soon as we leave. So if we leave, we cause crimes against humanity. If we stay, we are an endless occupying military force, we can't afford that forever.

[dipsydoodle]

3. No

When you leave it simply means you shouldn't have poked your nose in the first place.

[oberliner]

4. Suicide attack in western Baghdad kills 28

Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, March 10 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed at least 28 people and wounded 28 during a tour by tribal leaders and security officials of a crowded market in western Baghdad on Tuesday, officials said.

Major-General Qassim Moussawi said the bombing, the second major attack in the Iraqi capital in three days, took place in the Abu Ghraib district.

First Lieutenant Ahmed Mahmoud, a police official in Abu Ghraib, said the explosion occurred just as a government convoy passed through the market area, killing 30 people, including schoolchildren and security officials, and wounding 29 others.

Another police source said the dignitaries were leaving a reconciliation meeting at Abu Ghraib's municipal headquarters.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSLA936195

[SpiralHawk]

5. "Oooops. Smirk." - xCommander AWOL

[panader0]

6. File this under: The surge worked file.

[sabra]

7. Suicide Blast Targets Iraq Tribal Leaders (As Many As 33 Dead, More Wounded As Violence Spikes)

Source: CBS New/AP

Attack West Of Baghdad Leaves As Many As 33 Dead, More Wounded As Violence Spikes

(CBS/AP) A suicide bomber struck tribal leaders touring a market in a Sunni area west of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing as many as 33 people in the second major attack in the capital area in two days.

The bombing was part of a spike of violence that comes as the U.S. military begins drawing down its forces.

The bomber detonated an explosives belt as the tribal leaders were walking through the market in the town of Abu Ghraib, accompanied by security officials and journalists, according to the Iraqi military.

Two Iraqi television journalists were among those killed in the attack and one was wounded, according to their stations.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/10/world/main4855514.shtml?tag=topHome;topStories