Bombings, mortar strikes kill 76 across Baghdad

[marmar]

BAGHDAD (AP) – Rapid-fire bombings and mortar strikes killed 76 people and wounded more than 200 across Baghdad's myriad neighborhoods Tuesday, demonstrating the insurgents' ability to carry out coordinated strikes from one side of the capital to the other.

The attack — blasts in at least 13 separate neighborhoods — was clearly designed to hit civilians at restaurants and cafes where many Iraqis were gathered to enjoy the warm evening. The sophistication and the targets — Shiites — suggested that al-Qaida-linked Sunni militants were responsible for the deadliest day in Iraq since May.

The strikes, two days after the bloody siege of a downtown church, were stunning in their scope — indicating a high degree of coordination and complexity from an insurgency that just a few months ago U.S. and Iraqi officials were saying was all but defeated.

"They say the situation is under the control. Where is their control?" said Hussein al-Saiedi, a 26-year-old resident of Baghdad's sprawling Sadr City slum, where 21 people were killed when a parked car blew up near a market in Tuesday's deadliest bombing. ..............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101102/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Think how much worse it could have been

if we were still at war there.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

2. And it never would have happened if we never went there (n/m)

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Right.

BTW, I sorta forgot my sarcasm thingie above there.