34 Killed in Twin Explosions in Iraqi City

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Source: Associated Press

BAGHDAD (AP) — Twin explosions ripped through a crowded Iraqi market in a city southeast of Baghdad, killing 34 people and shattering what had been a relatively peaceful holy month of Ramadan.

The blasts in Kut, 100 miles (160 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, went off as construction workers were gathered in a market selling generators and other appliances.

Police spokesman Lt. Col. Dhurgam Mohammed Hassan said the first bomb went off in a freezer used to keep drinks cold. Then as rescuers and onlookers gathered, a parked car bomb exploded.

The top medical official in the province where Kut is located, Diaa al-Aboudi, said 34 people died in the explosion. Hassan put the number of the wounded from the twin blasts at 60.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/08/15/world/middleeast/AP-ML-Iraq.html

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1. Recommend

[Hissyspit]

2. Now reports say up to 43 dead.

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4. Update: Bomb blasts rock Iraq, kill 67, wound 170

Baghdad (CNN) -- A series of bombings and shooting attacks struck across Iraq on Monday, killing at least 67 people and wounding 170, authorities told CNN.

The Ministry of Interior called Iraqi security forces to ban people from parking their vehicles on the streets of Baghdad and other cities targeted in the attacks, saying they feared more violence.

The attacks bring to an end a relative period of quiet in Iraq that began in early August, coinciding with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

A dozen bombings primarily targeted Iraqi security forces, though the worst attack was a double bombing that targeted civilians on a busy street in central Iraq, authorities said.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/08/15/iraq.violence/

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3. Mission Accomplished

"Freedom is not our gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity."
— George W. Bush


none of this was happening prior to our invasion of Iraq.

[Yon_Yonson]

5. How can this be? I thought we just turned the corner in Iraq?

Peace and tranquility brought to Iraq by Washington D.C., the coalition of the willing and their warrior caste. :sarcasm:

Just another clusterfuck created to justify the existence of the military industrial complex who's laughing all the way to the bank.

[Harmony Blue]

6. This has been happening for months

but the U.S. media has all but ignored coverage of Iraq. How shameful!

[Yon_Yonson]

7. I know and it's being reported in UK & European papers