Final Death toll is 322 killed, injured in armed attacks in Baghdad

[Barrett808]

BAGHDAD, Aug 20 (KUNA) -- Iraqi Health Ministry said on Sunday that the final death toll in armed attacks which targeted thousands of Shiite Muslim pilgrims in the Iraqi capital has risen to 322 killed and injured.

A source from the Iraqi Health Ministry said the final victims' death toll is 20 people were killed and 302 injured, with varying degrees of injuries.

Meanwhile, Iraqi police said today that four police officers among them two brothers were killed by unknown gunmen in the Diyali province north east of Baghdad.

A police statement from the Diyali office said unknown gunmen killed two brothers from the same police security force and injured their father in the Tahrir area in Baqouba city.

Police also said two civilians were killed and an arrest of two armed men was made today in different parts of Diyali province.

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http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO...

[Botany]

1. "I won't talk about a hypothetical civil war." August 2006 Codi Rice

What say you now Ms. Rice?

[shain from kane]

3. Go back to college. n/t

[saigon68]

10. She is Evil

[leftchick]

5. she made on of the best dressed women in Vanity Fair

how? I do not know. She looks like she is wearing a freakin uniform most of the time like that star trek looking thing there.

[Roland99]

9. "In these shoes? I don't think so." (apologies to Kirsty McColl)

[Tellurian]

15. McCaffery just said on the TODAY show..There is all out Civil War in Iraq

So, what more does this administration need to state the Truth to the American people?
The odds of our soldiers survival, especially in Baghdad, has been reduced to nil.

Get them the HELL out of there!

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. I wouldn't bet on that count being final..................

Not for one minute.

[xchrom]

4. mission accomplished!

[democrank]

6. If this is bringin `em freedom

I`d like to know what hell is.

[nealmhughes]

7. The numbers are so staggering that they no longer shock. The fact that

these people were on pilgrimage is even more disgusting. Bush should be impeached for ruining internal security in Iraq. The blood is on the hands of him and the congressional enablers.

[Tellurian]

16. En masse- Our soldiers should wave a white flag and walk off the job.

unless, this administration (Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove & Rice) are willing to don a uniform, head to the front lines and take their place, just like George Washington, Napolean, King Richard and Prince Charlie did.

[Earth_First]

8. With the 'heavily fortified' Green Zone in central Baghdad...

this is a travesty that they cannot contain or quell the violence in the same city which the command for the occupation occupies.

[NVMojo]

11. America continues with its buildup of bad karma

[Zhade]

12. K/R

NT!

[missTheBigDog]

13. So tell us...

Mr. President how each life is so important and precious??

"I also believe human life is a sacred gift from our Creator. I worry about a culture that devalues life, and believe as your President I have an important obligation to foster and encourage respect for life in America and throughout the world." George W. Bush, Jul. 20, 2006

[SpiralHawk]

14. 322 = the Skull & Boner's secret Evil Number

Isn't 322 the secret Evil Number employed by the occult darkside group -- to which George AWOL Bush (and his Nazi grandfather Prescott Bush, and Poppy Bush) belong?

[Barrett808]

17. Hadn't heard that -- of course, I immediately thought of the AISB