Death toll in Baghdad car bomb rises to 22 (200 dead in 10 days).

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http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/07/24/death_toll_in_baghdad_car_bomb_rises_to_22/

Death toll in Baghdad car bomb rises to 22

July 24, 2005

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb outside a police station in east Baghdad killed at least 22 people and wounded 25, police and interior ministry sources said.......



There has been a campaign of more than 20 suicide car bomb attacks in and near the capital in the past 10 days, killing more than 200 people. Many of the attacks have targeted Iraqi police.

[rodeodance]

1. I have heard hardly anything about Irag this week from the news.

[NNN0LHI]

4. That is because everything is going so swimmingly over there n/t

[NNN0LHI]

2. Death toll in Baghdad car bomb rises to 22

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/BAK443687.htm

BAGHDAD, July 24 (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb outside a police station in east Baghdad killed at least 22 people and wounded 25, police and interior ministry sources said. snip

There has been a campaign of more than 20 suicide car bomb attacks in and near the capital in the past 10 days, killing more than 200 people. Many of the attacks have targeted Iraqi police.

[acmavm]

3. george, will you please give me your definition of Mission Accomplished?

Idiot.

[maddezmom]

5. more deaths buried in this article

In other incidents of violence, at least five people were killed across Iraq on Sunday, while a US marine was killed by a roadside bomb near the Jordanian border on Saturday.

The marine's death brings the total number of US military personnel killed in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion to 1,766, according to an AFP tally based on Pentagon figures.

An Iraq lieutenant colonel in charge of a police station in Baghdad was gunned down on his way to work and another policeman killed by mortar fire, police said.

Another police lieutenant colonel was also killed on his way to work in the northern oil centre of Kirkuk.

In another incident a young girl was killed and six people were wounded when a mini-bus they were travelling in hit a roadside bomb in Iskandariyah, south of Baghdad, while six policemen were wounded in clashes in the capital.

more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050724/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[maddezmom]

6. Bomber Kills 22 in Iraq; U.S. Says 40 Dead

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050724/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;_

[progressivebydesign]

7. Is the world outraged right now? Are they shocked?

Or is everyone pretty immune to death and destruction in the Middle East. Where is the outcry (outside of DU)? Where are the fundraisers? Oh, I forgot, "war is messy"* (*spoken by our own Donald "if I only had a heart" Rumsfeld).

[Carla in Ca]

8. Death toll now at 40

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1535320,00.html>
The picture accompanying the story says it all. Day after day, bomb after bomb, death after death as * packs to go to the ranch for a month. "Now, watch this drive".


:cry:

[daleo]

9. It is amazing that they still get recruits

But I guess jobs are scarce.

[Carla in Ca]

11. A lot of family members are angry that their loved ones

re-sign with the promise of up to $30,000.00. The last article I read about this reported that the soldiers only get about $3,500 now.
Think they will get the balance if and when they get back home? I don't.

[daleo]

12. I was thinking of the Iraqi police recruits

But you're right, the same reasoning applies to U.S. military.

[Carla in Ca]

13. Oh, sorry I misunderstood, deleo

And you are so right. They are as much a target as our soldiers are.

[Imagevision]

10. This is going to turn into another viet nam - they'll pick and choose

whenever they want to kill - that unfortunately includes the US. Just because we haven't had an attack since 2001 - is this some kind of progress made or something?

Don't forget, they hit the WTC in 1993 - then waited until 2001 to do it the right way 8 years later - so repukes figure we haven't had an attack so what? -we're on a roll?

Rovegate-DSM and don't forget it!!