Breaking CNN: Suicide Car Bombing/Execution Style Slayings kill 73 - Iraq

[dave29]

http://www.cnn.com

[blonndee]

1. Godalmighty. Is it the end of the world yet? n/t

[Doremus]

2. I don't see the story at the link you posted. Where did this occur? n/t

Thanks for clarifying in your edit.

[thefloyd]

3. No story just

Breaking News Headline....More to come

[Tight_rope]

4. Didn't see it either...not on the TV station either!

[AlCzervik]

7. it's a breaking news banner at the top of the page

no details yet---i can imagine it's very grisly.

[bemildred]

5. There appears to be wide disagreement over the effects of this bombing. nt

[texpatriot2004]

6. Gee, what's up with that? Wonder if it has anything to do with

the little get together today?

[TomInTib]

8. I heard it a few minutes ago on CNN

some pretty serious shit.
Shia neighborhood etc.

[DemInDistress]

9. Insurgents are in their last throes...

That was about 1,000 dead people ago...The carnage will never end un-
less America pulls out and with 4/6 massive military bases built near
the big oilfields it seems we're there until the last barrel of crude
is pumped or anarchy in the USA...

[kipco]

34. A safer Iraq thanks to W

I wonder if this is the part where we have made Iraq a safer place than ever before.

[texpatriot2004]

10. So there really doesn't have to be any actual or true news

you can just write whatever the heck you want and run it on a crawl or put it in a box and it's news? Well I declare. Just a bunch of gibberish then huh? Or at the very least some of it.

[Digit]

11. CNN headlines eom

[merwin]

12. Link here...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/09/14/iraq.main/index.html

[Hissyspit]

13. Reuters: Death Toll From Baghdad Car Bomb Reaches 40

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-09-14T042657Z_01_YUE413089_RTRIDST_0_INTERNATIONAL-IRAQ-BLAST-DC.XML

Death toll from car bomb in Baghdad reaches 40
Wed Sep 14, 2005 12:27 AM ET

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The casualty toll from a car bomb in Baghdad on Wednesday climbed to at least 40 dead and 100 wounded, police said.

Witnesses said most victims of the blast in the mainly Shi'ite district of Kathimiya were labourers who had gathered to look for work.

A crowd of people gathered around the blast site, where bodies lay on the street near burned-out cars.

[merwin]

14. Dupe, and it's up to 73

[Viva_La_Revolution]

20. CNN now says 80 nt

[montjoie]

17. Um, Sounds like the guy Bush didn't want elected is now

thanking Bush. Why don't we give this a little more time to fester before we leap all over the "90 dead" thing.

[texpatriot2004]

18. So our military take the fallout for this chickenshit chickenhawk?

[confludemocrat]

15. Men in Iraqi army uniforms pulled 17 from their homes and shot them

execution style, it says. U.S.-backed execution squads?
It seems to fit:
"At this hour, American and Iraqi forces are conducting joint operations to root out terrorists and insurgents in Tal Afar," Bush said. "Our objective is to defeat the enemies of a free Iraq. And we're working to prepare more Iraqi forces to join the fight."

[phiddle]

16. Spreading Democracy, I'd guess

[Ouabache]

28. It's the Honduras Option, remember? Thank you Mr Negroponte

Remember the discussions here when there was word surfacing in Iraq of the last resort 'Honduras Option'? While Negroponte was still there?

Right Wing 'government'-backed death squads. Blackwater and 31,000 Central American and Filipino mercenaries guananteed American citizenship when their tour of 'duty' is over?

Along with their families?

This has been covered on little viewed Democracy Now! from Pacifica Radio and Link TV and Free Speech TV (FSTV).

[0007]

48. That's the way Negroponte's death squad works.

[IndianaGreen]

19. BBC: Scores killed in Baghdad attacks

Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 05:14 GMT 06:14 UK

Scores killed in Baghdad attacks

been killed and scores injured in a car bomb in a mainly Shia area of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, police sources say.

The device was reportedly detonated by a suicide attacker amid a group of labourers in the Kadhimiya district.

It was the deadliest car bomb in Iraq for several weeks.

A couple of hours earlier, gunmen killed 17 people in the nearby town of Taji after dragging them from their homes in the middle of the night.

There have been frequent sectarian killings in Baghdad and central Iraq as mainly Sunni insurgents seek to incite fear and hatred between the Muslim communities.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4244068.stm

[DS1]

21. Is that a Suicide Car Bombing with Extreme But Waived Prejudice?

[DoYouEverWonder]

22. Bombs, gunmen kill over 100 in Baghdad

Sept 14, 2005

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed over 80 people in a crowded Shi'ite district of Baghdad on Wednesday, while gunmen killed 17 north of the city and the capital resounded with explosions and gunfire.

The violence came as Iraqi troops, with U.S. support, continued operations against insurgents across the country. Fears of civil war are growing in the run-up to a divisive vote on a new constitution for
Iraq's post-Saddam Hussein era.

The suicide bomber blew up an explosives-packed minibus in Kadhimiya, in Baghdad's old town, killing 82 and wounding 163, most of them laborers looking for day jobs, police said.

An Interior Ministry source said the bomber lured the men toward his vehicle with promises of work before detonating the bomb, which contained up to 500 lbs of explosives.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/iraq_dc;_ylt=A9FJqaY62SdDn8AAsgSs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--

[aquart]

23. Sure looks like civil war to me.

[arrianna]

24. All I can do these days is

shake my head. It's a damn shame what's going on over there. :(

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

25. and it's all because the UNIITED STATES INVADED

war is not the answer--
look what happens when you've got an AWOL flunkee alchoholic cokehead rich brat calling the shots for our country's military on behalf of his corporate buddies...

They sure made a "killing"----didn't they

[JNelson6563]

26. They are desperate

cause they're in the last throes of the insurgency. :sarcasm:

[malaise]

27. BBC said 104 Iraqis died

Get our of Iraq.

[ECH1969]

29. Al-Qaida in Iraq says it's waging a nationwide suicide bombing campaign

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide car bomber struck as day laborers gathered to find work in a heavily Shiite neighborhood in north Baghdad, killing at least 88 people and wounding 227, in the most serious of a series of attacks in the Iraqi capital. U.S. military sources told NBC News that at least 10 suicide bombings occurred across Baghdad Wednesday morning.

Al-Qaida in Iraq said it was waging a nationwide suicide bombing campaign to avenge a military offensive on a rebel town.

The statement was carried by an Islamist Web site often used by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Sunni militant group.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9332851/

[buzzsaw_23]

30. Update - At least 136 Killed

At least 136 people have been killed in a wave of violence in and around Baghdad today.

The deadliest in a series of attacks saw more than 100 people murdered by a suicide bomber who blew up a minibus in a crowd of labourers.

A claim of responsibility was later made on the internet by the Sunni militant group al-Qaida in Iraq.

The statement said the organisation, led by the Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was waging a nationwide suicide bombing campaign to avenge a US and Iraqi military offensive against rebels, thought to refer to an ongoing counter-insurgency operation in the north of Iraq.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1569667,00.html

[tuvor]

31. Explosions Across Iraq Kill More Than 120

By SLOBODAN LEKIC, Associated Press Writer 18 minutes ago

BAGHDAD, Iraq - As many as 10 explosions ripped the Iraqi capital Wednesday, beginning with a huge suicide car bombing that shattered the morning calm in a heavily Shiite northern Baghdad district, targeting laborers gathered to find work for the day. At least 88 people were killed and 227 wounded in that attack alone.

In all, the attacks in or near the capital — including the execution of 17 men in a village north of Baghdad — killed more than 120 people and the death toll was rising rapidly. Al-Qaida in
Iraq said it was behind the attacks.

A senior American military official told The Associated Press he believed the rash of bombings was retaliation for the joint Iraqi-U.S. sweep through the northern city of Tal Afar in recent days to evict insurgents from their stronghold near the Syrian border.

The bomb that hit as laborers gathered in Kazimiyah was the single deadliest in the country since Feb. 28, when a suicide car bomber targeted Shiite police and National Guard recruits, killing 125 people in Hillah, 60 miles south of Baghdad.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050914/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[Ufour20]

32. Can you feel that Democracy?

I'm sure glad they had those elections over there, I can see how it made a huge difference. :sarcasm:

[deminks]

33. AP: 12 Explosions in Iraq Kill at Least 152

542 wounded

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/iraq

[lateo]

35. They weren't killed...they were liberated.

Come on CNN get with the program.

[Barrett808]

36. "Today, we are all Iraqis."

Is what you won't hear politicians from any nation, anywhere on Earth.

Funny, that.

[tex-wyo-dem]

37. 12 Explosions in Iraq Kill at Least 152

By SLOBODAN LEKIC, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 24 minutes ago

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A dozen explosions ripped through the Iraqi capital in rapid succession Wednesday, killing at least 152 people and wounding 542 in a series of attacks that began with a suicide car bombing that targeted laborers assembled to find work for the day. Al-Qaida in
Iraq claimed responsibility.
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The one-day death toll was believed to be the worst in the capital since major combat ended in May 2003, and Al-Jazeera said Al-Qaida in Iraq linked the attacks to the recent rout of militants from the city of Tal Afar by U.S. and Iraqi forces.

Before dawn Wednesday, 17 men were executed in a village north of Baghdad, which pushed the death toll in all violence in and around the capital to 169.

Wednesday's worst bombing killed at least 88 people and wounded 227 in the heavily Shiite neighborhood of Kazimiyah where the day laborers had gathered shortly after dawn.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050914/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_050914103645;_ylt=Am42dvr7uMkdDP6jjWNIEOVX6GMA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

[efhmc]

38. But what a noble cause they were all killed for.

[saigon68]

47. FREEDOM IS ON THE MARCH

Drooled the AWOL CHIMPANZEE

[Trevelyan]

39. It looks like bushco is taking advantage of the attention on Katrina

snafu for another Fallujah type massacre.


http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/09/10/iraq.main/**

Saturday, September 10, 2005; Posted: 1:44 p.m. EDT (17:44 GMT)

A U.S. soldier runs for cover as Iraqi soliders provide security in Tal Afar.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. and Iraqi soldiers have been going from house to house in the restive northern city of Tal Afar to ferret out militants in an operation that will continue until it is "freed from insurgents," military officials said.
~~~~~~~

Tal Afar Residents Send Out SOS

Injured civilians find no health care.

MOSUL, September 9, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) – Residents of the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar has sent out an SOS to the international community to interfere with the US occupation authorities to stop their continuing bombing of their devastated city, revealing a terrible humanitarian situation.

"US and Iraqi forces are still besieging Tal Afar amid ongoing intensive bombing, ordering residents of Hassan Kawi and Sarray neighborhoods to evacuate immediately," a Tal Afar tribal leader told IOL over the phone Thursday, September 8.

"The Americans are seemingly bombing the city with chemical weapons," he said, adding Tal Afar residents are speaking of suffocations and other health problems upon exposure to any hit area.

Residents told IOL over the phone that they saw an ambulance driver trying to evacuate 10 corpses on a Hassan Kawi street. When he tried to move them to the morgue, US forces refused and ordered him to speed away.

US and Iraqi troops have been besieging the city since Saturday, September 3, and were reportedly gearing up for a large-scale offensive.

[Neecy]

40. sick and tragic

And the right still natters that all of the 'good things' in Iraq aren't being reported - delusional. We've created this chaos and there's blood on our hands.

[Roland99]

41. So much for Operation Lightning. But, vote that article up...it's Freeped

[muriel_volestrangler]

44. Amazing that people would rate a story like that low, isn't it?

Pure partisan politics, trying to cover up another loss of life from Dubya's disasterous choices.

[Barrett808]

45. Definite Freepage: 2.5/5 with 971 votes -- Vote ut up! n/t

[myrna minx]

42. So this is what the last throes look like.

This is so terrible. :cry:

[Frederik]

43. Oh boy

12 explosions, no less.

"Al-Jazeera said Al-Qaida in Iraq linked the attacks to the recent rout of militants from the city of Tal Afar by U.S. and Iraqi forces"

I guess we have to go back and bomb Tal Afar again, so we can have 12 more explosions next week.

Does anybody still think the presence of US forces is contributing anything positive to Iraq?

[Straight Shooter]

46. bush thinks winning hearts and minds means scraping them off the pavement.

Go over there and clean up your mess, bush.

Yeah, right, like that's gonna happen.