Suicide truck bomber kills 67 in northern Iraq

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: Reuters

A suicide bomber killed 67 people on Saturday as they left a mosque, shortly after the prime minister urged Iraqis not to lose faith if a U.S. military pull-back sparked more violence.

Almost all U.S. soldiers will leave urban centres by June 30 under a bilateral security pact signed last year and the entire force that invaded the country in 2003 must be gone by 2012.

Saturday's attack was the deadliest in more than a year.

"Don't lose heart if a breach of security occurs here or there," Nuri al-Maliki told leaders from the ethnic Turkmen community, reiterating a warning that insurgents were likely to take advantage of the U.S. pull-back to launch more attacks.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUSLK145412._CH_.2400

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cf Iraq Declares Victory as U.S. Troops Leave Cities.

[shireen]

1. sickening!

:cry:

[Blandocyte]

2. Mission accomplished, goddammit! Don't they get it?

Mission accomplished! Fukkers! Stop bombing us! Mission effing accomplished!

[AlphaCentauri]

3. I just read about the Iraqi government chanting victory n/t