Sunday, July 17, 2005
87 Dead in Iraq Attacks, over 100 wounded
3 British Troops Killed
The Age reports that a suicide bomber in Musayyib killed at least 70 persons
[according to late reports] on Saturday and wounded 82. The huge blast, at a
gas station near a Shiite mosque in this town about an hour and a half's drive
south of Baghdad not far from the holy city of Karbala, also destroyed nine
automobiles. The London Times reports that one father said, ' "After the bomb I
went over there and found my son's head. I could not find his body," said
Mohsen Jassim of his 18-year-old son. '
Al-Sharq al-Awsat reports that a judge of Kurdish ancestry, Nur al-Din Ahmad,
was assassinated Saturday in the southern Shiite city of Nasiriyah, breaking
that city's relative calm.
Reuters reports other violence on Saturday:
The other attacks killed about 17 persons.
' A suicide bomber struck a police patrol in al-Dura, a southern district of
Baghdad. He killed 2 policemen and 2 civilians, and wounded 10.'
Other attacks stretched from Mosul in the north to Amara in the Shiite south. In
Amarah, three British troops were killed. Credit was taken by an obscure group
with a Shiite name, but it is probably just a front for radical Salafis like
Zarqawi's group.
Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari is visiting Iran. He has brought 10 cabinet
ministers, and deals will be done on the economy, petroleum refining, and
border security. The Sunni Arabs are worried that a strong Shiite Iraq/ Iran
nexis will harm their interests.
http://www.juancole.com/2005/07/87-dead-in-iraq-attacks-over-100.html
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