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"Harry Hope" |
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The Bush-created quagmire: 124 Iraqis dead, hundreds wounded, 1 U.S. soldier dead, 1 wounded |
From Reuters, 3/2/04:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=1&u=/nm/20040302/ts_nm/iraq_dc
124 Iraqis dead, hundreds wounded, 1 U.S. soldier dead, 1 wounded
124 Dead After Blasts on Iraqi Shi'ite Holy Day
By Suleiman al-Khalidi and Luke Baker
BAGHDAD/KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) -
Blasts tore through Shi'ites marking their holiest day in Baghdad and
Kerbala Tuesday, killing at least 124 people on Iraq's bloodiest day
since Saddam Hussein's fall.
Furious leaders of the country's 60 percent Shi'ite majority branded
the attacks an attempt to ignite civil war.
Polish troops in Kerbala and U.S. soldiers in Baghdad said the blasts
were caused by mortars which landed among huge crowds of Shi'ites in
near-simultaneous attacks on the two cities.
The U.S. military said last month it had evidence al Qaeda guerrillas
were planning to attack Shi'ites to spark sectarian violence.
At least five explosions shook Kerbala, a holy city where more than
two million Shi'ites from Iraq, Iran and further afield had gathered.
Colonel Raed Nabil, the city police chief, said at least 70 Iraqis and
Iranians were killed in the attacks.
In Baghdad, four blasts hit the holiest Shi'ite mosque, the Kadhimiya
mosque in the north of the capital.
The health minister said at least 54 people were killed but the number
of scattered body parts hampered collating a death toll.
One medic said the Baghdad toll could be more than 75.
In a separate attack in Baghdad, guerrillas threw a bomb at a U.S.
military vehicle early Tuesday, killing one American soldier and
seriously wounding another, the army said.
The death took to 379 the number of U.S. soldiers killed in action
since the start of the U.S.-led war in Iraq nearly a year ago.
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Another horrible day in the Bush-created quagmire.
Harry
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