Wave of Bombings Kills Dozens in Iraq

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Source: NYT

BAGHDAD — A series of bombings on Friday struck mosques, a market and a shop in Baghdad, as well as the homes of a prosecutor and police officers in western Iraq on Friday, killing dozens, only five days after a joint Iraqi-American raid killed the country’s top two leaders of Al Qaeda.

Iraq’s leaders had hailed the killings early Sunday as a devastating blow to the group but warned that retaliation was almost certain to come. It was not clear that Al Qaeda in Iraq, also known as Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, was behind the latest jolt of violence.

The attacks were the worst of an intermittent wave of bombings since the country’s parliamentary election on March 7, providing a violent backdrop to stalled efforts to finalize the results of the vote and begin to form a new government.

According to preliminary accounts by the Ministry of the Interior, 12 bombs — including car bombs and improvised explosive devices, but not suicide bombers, an Al Qaeda hallmark — killed at least 50 people in Baghdad and wounded more than 100. In Anbar, the sprawling Sunni province to the west, 7 people died when a series of explosions struck houses in a small village.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/24/world/middleeast/24iraq.html

[SpiralHawk]

1. "But, but, but...Mission Accomplished and stuff." - xCommander AWOL (R)

Seven freaking years ago. Yet another Republicon Whopper. As usual.

[Mari333]

2. we predicted this here on DU yrs ago when we invaded this country to steal their oil

we knew it would happen.
no one listened.

[midnight]

3. This is numbing after a while. Seven people in a small village have their

houses struck by explosions- but not suicide bombers..... I have to stop and ask myself, what in the world or more appropriately, how in the world can families keep sustaining this class war? Can we stop this transfer of wealth to those with the most bombs from those who are just trying to feed their families????

[laststeamtrain]

4. K & R - We export a messy kind of 'democracy'. We shoulda stood in bed.

[Stuart G]

5. Now who can we thank for the wonderful conditions in Iraq???

Prey tell? Someone who was going to bring peace and democracy to that land..If 60 people died, that would be the equivilant of 600 here.( We have more than 10 times their population)
I wonder how people here would feel a few years after some sort of invasion of the U.S.A. and the residual anarchy caused the death of 600 people... years after the "invasion" and so called, "peace". :puke: