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Good news: Four more Al Quaidans dead!
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I have red bolded the key points. Simply read the red parts
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Suicide attack kills at least 95 in Baghdad
Blast rocks predominantly Shiite area; insurgents rampage through Mosul
MSNBC News Services
Updated: 5 minutes ago
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide truck bomber struck a market in a predominantly Shiite area of Baghdad on Saturday,
killing at least 95 people among the crowd buying food for evening meals, police and hospital officials said.
The attacker was driving a truck carrying food when he detonated his explosives, destroying stores and stalls that had been set up in the busy outdoor Sadriyah market, police said, giving the casualty toll.
Officials said at least 95 people were killed and 200 wounded, Retuers reported.
The blast occurred at 4:40 p.m., the latest in a series of attacks against commercial targets in the capital as insurgents seek to maximize the number of people killed ahead of a planned U.S.-Iraqi security sweep.
Earlier, seven car bombs shook the ethnically mixed Iraqi city of Kirkuk and rampaging insurgents forced authorities in Mosul
to close bridges and order people off the streets.
The attacks came as the country’s top Shiite cleric renewed an appeal for Iraqis to reject violence,
and a day after a U.S. intelligence report said elements of the conflict could be called “civil war”.
In the northern city of Kirkuk, seven car bombings, including a suicide attack, killed at least four civilians and wounded 37.
Two of the cars detonated outside the offices of the main Kurdish parties in the city.
As fearful residents rushed home and shops shut early in anticipation of more attacks, police imposed a vehicle curfew.
A police source said all entrances to Kirkuk were closed to prevent more car bombings.
Further north, another curfew was imposed in Mosul, Iraq’s third largest city, after clashes between insurgents and police erupted in several neighborhoods.
A police source said the militants planned to take over the city.
Violence continued despite the curfew.
A car bomb hit an ambulance and killed an injured woman who was being taken to hospital and six mortar bombs
struck the offices of the state-funded Iraqiya television channel.
The U.S. military said two more U.S. soldiers had died in the Sunni province of Anbar, an insurgent stronghold.
The military reported the killing of three al-Qaida militants in a firefight in Fallujah and a fourth militant north of Baghdad, saying they belonged to foreign fighter networks.
After warning that elements of the Iraq conflict had become tantamount to “civil war”, the intelligence report said
progress must be made within 12-18 months to avoid a further deterioration.
U.S. President George W.Bush plans to send 21,500 more troops, especially to Baghdad.
The increase — on top of some 130,000 U.S. troops already in Iraq — is widely seen as a final attempt to avert
all-out sectarian civil war between the Shiite Muslim majority and Sunnis once dominant under Saddam Hussein.
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Busy Baptist brethren, to save your valuable reading time
I have red bolded the key points. Simply read the red parts
for the gist of the good tidings.
Suicide attack kills at least 95 in Baghdad
Blast rocks predominantly Shiite area; insurgents rampage through Mosul
MSNBC News Services
Updated: 5 minutes ago
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide truck bomber struck a market in a predominantly Shiite area of Baghdad on Saturday,
killing at least 95 people among the crowd buying food for evening meals, police and hospital officials said.
The attacker was driving a truck carrying food when he detonated his explosives, destroying stores and stalls that had been set up in the busy outdoor Sadriyah market, police said, giving the casualty toll.
Officials said at least 95 people were killed and 200 wounded, Retuers reported.
The blast occurred at 4:40 p.m., the latest in a series of attacks against commercial targets in the capital as insurgents seek to maximize the number of people killed ahead of a planned U.S.-Iraqi security sweep.
Earlier, seven car bombs shook the ethnically mixed Iraqi city of Kirkuk and rampaging insurgents forced authorities in Mosul
to close bridges and order people off the streets.
The attacks came as the country’s top Shiite cleric renewed an appeal for Iraqis to reject violence,
and a day after a U.S. intelligence report said elements of the conflict could be called “civil war”.
In the northern city of Kirkuk, seven car bombings, including a suicide attack, killed at least four civilians and wounded 37.
Two of the cars detonated outside the offices of the main Kurdish parties in the city.
As fearful residents rushed home and shops shut early in anticipation of more attacks, police imposed a vehicle curfew.
A police source said all entrances to Kirkuk were closed to prevent more car bombings.
Further north, another curfew was imposed in Mosul, Iraq’s third largest city, after clashes between insurgents and police erupted in several neighborhoods.
A police source said the militants planned to take over the city.
Violence continued despite the curfew.
A car bomb hit an ambulance and killed an injured woman who was being taken to hospital and six mortar bombs
struck the offices of the state-funded Iraqiya television channel.
The U.S. military said two more U.S. soldiers had died in the Sunni province of Anbar, an insurgent stronghold.
The military reported the killing of three al-Qaida militants in a firefight in Fallujah and a fourth militant north of Baghdad, saying they belonged to foreign fighter networks.
After warning that elements of the Iraq conflict had become tantamount to “civil war”, the intelligence report said
progress must be made within 12-18 months to avoid a further deterioration.
U.S. President George W.Bush plans to send 21,500 more troops, especially to Baghdad.
The increase — on top of some 130,000 U.S. troops already in Iraq — is widely seen as a final attempt to avert
all-out sectarian civil war between the Shiite Muslim majority and Sunnis once dominant under Saddam Hussein.