Car bombs kill 24 in Baghdad ahead of crackdown

[ck4829]

Three car bombs killed 24 people and wounded scores in Baghdad on Monday, and gunmen attacked two Sunni areas, clashing with residents and setting houses on fire.

The violence came on a day when the military command center that will oversee a planned offensive by Iraqi and U.S. troops in the city was due to become operational. U.S. officers said on Sunday that the crackdown would begin "soon thereafter."

In the worst blast on Monday, a car bomb targeting a petrol station in the religiously mixed southern neighborhood of Saidiya killed 10 people and wounded 62, while eight people were killed and 40 wounded when a car bomb exploded in a garage.

A car bomb exploded near a childrens' hospital in Andalus square in central Baghdad, killing six and wounding nine.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070205/ts_nm/iraq_dc

Yep, Iraq is just like Chicago or Los Angeles now. Those RW pundits are right and we are wrong, we were calling it a 'civil war', what were we thinking? :sarcasm:

[pampango]

1. Those brave insurgents strike again at those pesky civilians who

are occupying Iraq. That will teach those civilians, who have intentionally chosen to live in a country that was illegally invaded by a foreign power, a lesson they will not soon forget. :sarcasm: