Suicide Blast Kills 25 At Celebration in Iraq

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Source: Washington Post

BAGHDAD, Aug. 24 -- A suicide bomber killed at least 25 people celebrating the return of an Iraqi detainee from U.S. custody, Iraqi officials said Sunday night.

The blast at a tribal feast in suburban Baghdad's Abu Ghraib area was one of the deadliest attacks in recent months. It served as a grisly reminder of the carnage that insurgents can still inflict in Iraq even as violence reaches its lowest level since the war began.

The attack occurred at 8 p.m. as members of the Awakening Movement, a group mainly made up of former Sunni insurgents who have now joined with U.S. forces, gathered for a party in the city of al-Nasr Wal Salam, west of the capital.

The men were celebrating the release of a son of Adnan Hanoush, head of the Awakening Movement in the city, witnesses said. They said the son, Sami Hanoush, was freed from Camp Bucca, a U.S.-run detention facility, three days ago.


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[xchrom]

1. recommend the surge isn't working. nt

[AuntPatsy]

2. We are in essence a nation of cowards...its not here so who cares?

Obviously not enough American citizens worry when forieigners get slain, they barely worry about our own soldiers...I would bet that I could go tommorow and ask everyone I see how many Americans have died in bushies war and not one of them will know the correct answer but I bet they are against abortion, you know being pro life and all.....

Sometimes I hate this world.

[usregimechange]

3. Well, don't blame the entire world. Blame McBush Inc and hit the streets!

[llmart]

4. And yet I just saw a headline......

that said Democrats should apologize for not backing the surge, or some such nonsense. Granted, this was in a right-leaning newspaper but still, how stupid can people get? Don't answer that.

[Xenotime]

5. Wow. Out troops are doing a hell of a job over there...

Geez..