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Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"Harry Hope" |
| Date: |
18 Apr 2007 10:35:20 AM |
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Iraqi deaths in today's Baghdad bombings rise to 170 as Bush "surges" |
From Reuters, 4/18/07:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070418/ts_nm/iraq_dc
Car bombs kill 170 in Baghdad
By Dean Yates and Paul Tait
BAGHDAD (Reuters) -
Car bombs killed nearly 170 people in Baghdad on Wednesday in the
deadliest attacks in the city since U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a
security crackdown aimed at halting the country's slide into sectarian
civil war.
One car bomb alone in the mainly Shi'ite Sadriya neighborhood killed
118 people and wounded 139, police said.
"The street was transformed into a swimming pool of blood," Ahmed
Hameed, a shopkeeper near the scene, told Reuters.
The apparently coordinated attacks -- there were five within a short
space of time -- occurred hours after Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri
al-Maliki said Iraq would take security control of the whole country
from foreign forces by the end of the year.
More than 200 people were wounded in total.
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The monthly U.S. death toll through April 16 is 64
3,311 American troops are dead, 24,647 have been wounded, over 655,000
innocent Iraqis are dead and wounded
Harry
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