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(Warning....some of this description is pretty graphic.)

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/15597963.htm

Women and children slaughtered in Baghdad
SUNNI GROUP SAYS IT CAUSED STREET INFERNO

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A fiery explosion tore through a line of people waiting to buy fuel Saturday and killed at least 38 people, mainly women and children, continuing the wave of tit-for-tat sectarian killings that have defied U.S. efforts to stanch the bloodshed.

The horrific blast sent women engulfed in flames screaming through the streets. Two preteen girls embraced each other as they burned to death, witnesses said. Later, wailing mourners thronged the scene of the blast, which was strewn with the shoes of victims and a woman's bloodied cloak, and voiced doubt that the reprisal violence would ever end.

``We carry our death certificates with us now, waiting only to fill in the date of death,'' said Bayan Jasem al-Kaaby, 40, a minibus driver, after he was burned by the explosion that rocked the Shiite Muslim slum of Sadr City at about 10 a.m.

A Sunni Arab insurgent group, Jamaat Jund al-Sahaaba, asserted responsibility for the bombing. The group said in an Internet statement that the attack was retribution for assaults on Sunnis in Al-Hurriyah district of Baghdad, where police said two mosques were attacked and five people killed Friday.

``We tell the malicious Shia that our swords are able to reach the depths of your areas, so stop the killing'' of the Sunni people, the statement said, according to a translation by the SITE Institute.

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By midafternoon, the street where the explosion took place was still littered with abandoned yellow, red and blue jerrycans. Bits of flesh flecked the muddy ground, and blood pooled in front of Um Ali's home, left by a woman who clutched her infant child as she bled from a wound in her neck.

``She mumbled some words incoherently,'' said Um Ali, 40. ``Then she fell at my doorstep and died.''

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Violence also flared elsewhere across Iraq on Saturday. At about 5:30 p.m. in Beiji, north of Baghdad, six hooded men stepped out of their cars in the middle of the city, removed two large boxes from their trunks and then left the cartons behind, according to police 1st Lt. Mustafa Thabit.

The contents: 10 human heads.

Thabit said the victims appeared to have been either employees or contractors at the U.S. military base in Beiji. ``This is the destiny of the traitors,'' read a note left in each box.


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NOTE: 3 American soldiers and a contractor were killed during the same time period.

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