Large Explosion Kills Eight in Baghdad

[Guaranteed]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A large explosion hit outside a police academy in downtown Baghdad on Sunday, killing eight people, officials said.

At about the same time, a car bomb blew up near a small market close to the Culture Ministry, police Lt. Ahmed Hussain said. The bomb wounded at least one civilian, and may have been aimed at an American convoy, he said.

The deadlier blast was either caused by a car bomb or a missile, said Col. Adnan Abdul-Rahman of the Interior Ministry.

At least four mangled bodies lay in the street, Associated Press Television News footage showed, and police collected body parts on stretchers. Officials at the scene said eight people were killed and three wounded.
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041010/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_explosions&cid=540&ncid=716

And that's the end of the article.

You know, it's funny- my mind has become so used to these bombings that I almost didn't see this, even though it was second from the top on the Yahoo! front page. I must have looked at it three or four times before it even seemed newsworthy.

It's a sad state of affairs here in the United States.

[ogradda]

1. shit

this has gotten so old.

[Bluebear]

2. BGL, I just now said the same thing. "Why is this even news anymore?"

It happens every day as surely as the sun comes up. So sad.

[Guaranteed]

3. Here's another one that's gotten no attention, even here

on DU:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x894953

[leftchick]

4. 10 dead, many wounded....

from CNN at the 7:00AM report. They spent a whole 30 seconds on it..... :(

edit: here is an update....http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041010/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq&cid=540&ncid=716

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Two car bombs shook the capital in quick succession Sunday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 17, including an American soldier, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.


A suicide attacker detonated a minibus packed with explosives near an eastern Baghdad police academy, police Cap. Ali Ayez said at the scene. At least four mangled bodies lay on the street amid scattered shoes, papers and a handbag. Police collected body parts on stretchers.


The dead included three police academy students and a female officer, Ayez said.


U.S. forces assisted the wounded, including a police recruit who received stitches in his abdomen. Police recruiting centers have been frequently targeted in an attempt to undercut support for Iraq's security services.

[Guaranteed]

5. Just background noise, now. nt

[leftchick]

6. sad isn't it....

if the lack of coverage and therefore lack of public interest in the daily Iraq carnage continue, it looks like a thousand year war in Iraq...
:(

[bucknaked]

7. Well, at least we "got 'em on the run" "we'll smoke 'em out, heh"

They fear us so much that they flock to where ever we fight..

God help us, if this country elects that bobbing headed monkey boy again.

[acmavm]

8. So sad that this just keeps on happening, but the fact is that it will

never, ever end as long as we have a military presence in Iraq, and the faux pro-US government retains power.

This story goes back for hundreds of years. The west tries to occupy the Middle East and after years of bloody fighting, they are forced to withdraw. No one is learning from history, therefore it is forced to repeat itself over and over and over. That's the thing I don't understand about the British (Blair) government's support of Operation Enduring Freedom. They've had first hand experience in this area before. Did they think just because our little macho maniac was in charge that it would turn out differently? What exactly was Blair's rationale for going into a part of the world that they've been driven out of before?

As for the American people, how in the hell can such a large segment in this country possibly think things are going 'well' when the American and Iraqi casuality figures just keep on climbing up day after day? When does reality kick in for these people? When we start losing the sons and daughters of senators or rich people? When enough of their kids are dead of wounded and we still have no control over the situation? After the last Iraqi civilian is killed? What cataclysmic (sp?)event has to happen before they get a clue?

[leftchick]

9. 18 dead....

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A15C3B5B-7EB0-41EF-8FE7-280D3303B844.htm

A car bomb has killed 18 people near Baghdad's oil ministry and a nearby police academy, as US Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld arrived for an unexpected visit to the country.



On Sunday, the bodies of a woman and three men were seen being lifted from the scene of the attack, suspected to be the work of anti-US forces.



"The bomb apparently exploded prematurely at an intersection in front of the academy. Most of the dead were passersby, including seven women," said ministry spokesman Asim Jihad.



At least two cars were destroyed in the attack, which gouged a large crater in Palestine Street, one of Baghdad's main roads