Guardian: Three days of suicide bombs leave 150 dead

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http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1530834,00.html

Three days of suicide bombs leave 150 dead

Michael Howard in Irbil
Monday July 18, 2005
The Guardian

Iraq's fledgling government stood accused of leaving its citizens defenceless yesterday after a devastating three days of suicide attacks left at least 150 people dead and more than 260 wounded.

In the deadliest bombing, one of at least 10 on Saturday, more than 98 people were killed and 130 were injured in the town of Musayyib, south of the capital, after a suicide bomber blew up a fuel tanker near a crowded marketplace and in front of a Shia mosque.

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Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed in an internet statement that the bombings were part of a campaign to take control of Bagh dad. So far this month there have been more than 40 suicide attacks, which have claimed 269 lives and wounded 558.

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[NorCalDem]

1. Maybe the London bombing was planned

to give new 'fight' to the insurgency in Iraq. Maybe they really were in their last throes, but I doubt it. Hopefully this new wave of bombings doesn't become a trend, but part of me thinks it will :(

[EVDebs]

2. Civil war will start soon. I don't see how this continues indefinitely

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. "let freedom reign!"