Reply #6: CNN's account of Bloody Thanksgiving

[IndianaGreen]

This story contains a lot of information about the recent killings in Iraq. It is a bloodbath!

Car bomb kills at least 30 in Iraq

Sunni sheik, family members slain

Thursday, November 24, 2005; Posted: 5:29 a.m. EST (10:29 GMT)

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Thirty people, most of them Iraqi civilians, were killed and 23 wounded Thursday when a car bomb detonated outside a hospital in the town of Mahmoudiya, about 35 kilometers (22 miles) south of Baghdad, according to police.

The explosion occurred about 10:50 a.m. local time (2:50 a.m. ET), according to an Iraqi police official with the Interior Ministry. Further details were not immediately available.

In other incidents, three Iraqi security officials were gunned down in three separate attacks in Baghdad within an hour on Thursday, according to an Iraqi police official with Baghdad emergency police.

Maj. Muffaq Hassan, an officer with the Iraqi Army, died about 9 a.m. when gunmen opened fire at his car in southwestern Baghdad. His driver was also wounded, police said.

About 30 minutes later, Mohammed Mustafa, an Iraqi police officer with the Interior Ministry, died when he was shot while driving his private car to work in northern Baghdad.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/11/24/iraq.main/index.html