U.S.-Occupied Iraq Fears More Violence

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The bloodied bodies kept coming into the hospital as explosions sounded across the city, recalls Dr. Laith Hussein Jabir. "We heard boom, boom, boom. All the victims are innocents — Iraqi men, women, children," he lamented Tuesday.

One after another, the suicide bombings across Baghdad shook the capital just as Iraqis began their first day of fasting for the holy month of Ramadan on Monday. The multiple attacks brought a new level of shock in a city already in fear from persistent violence.

"What happened yesterday reminds me of what happened Sept. 11 in the U.S. These are terrorists," Jabir said.

After the deadliest day in Baghdad since the start of the U.S. occupation — some three dozen dead and 220 wounded — Iraqis voiced helplessness and anger at living in what has continues to be a war zone. They also said they fear that as long as the Americans are here, violence will continue.

"I feel myself in a prison," said Remon David Tuma, 51, whose small grocery store is across the street from the al-Khadra police station, one of three hit by car bombers Monday.

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