Deaths top 100 in Baghdad bombings, shootings

[brettdale]

http://us.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/01/16/iraq.main/index.html

Deaths top 100 in Baghdad bombings, shootings

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- More than 100 people were killed in Baghdad on Tuesday in bombing and shooting incidents, most of them in neighborhoods where the militia of a powerful anti-American Shiite cleric holds sway.

A suicide bomber and a car bomb killed at least 70 people and wounded 169 more at entrances to a once-prestigious university in Baghdad.

The strike at Mustansiriya University was a dual bomb attack. The suicide bomber detonated a vest at the back entrance of the school, and a parked car exploded at the main gate under a pedestrian bridge where students and employees get public transit. (Watch aftermath of 'massive' bombing Video)

A CNN producer near the scene said police sealed off the area and there were armed members of the Mehdi Army -- the militia under the control of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr -- on the street.

[Sugar Smack]

1. Good lord. Students.

Just fucking GOING TO CLASS. Amazing. :argh:

[endarkenment]

2. Surging now, going great, 'mocracy on the march.

What is the lame ass excuse for MORE WAR MORE OCCUPATION going to be three to six months from now when this pile of crap is revealed as another failed Boosh 'policy'?

What lame ass excuses will our 'opposition party' have then for continuing to fund the war crime in Iraq? Or will it be Iran at that point?

[Jim Warren]

3. Streets run with blood

Imagine waking up every day and going about your business.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

4. K&R... tell the fireman there's another BIG mess over here, please...

[Jim Warren]

5. and wtf is up with "Civil Defense" nt