Car bombs kill 100 in Iraq
Bombings and a mortar attack struck Shiite targets in Baghdad and north of the capital on Monday, killing at least 100 people and wounding scores in a further sign of what appeared to be a renewed campaign of Sunni insurgent violence.
The U.S. military also reported the deaths of two Marines, raising the two-day death toll to 27 in a particularly bloody weekend for American forces in Iraq.
Monday's first blast, a parked car bomb, tore through stalls of vendors peddling DVDs and secondhand clothes shortly after noon in the Bab al-Sharqi market between Tayaran and Tahrir squares — one of the busiest parts of Baghdad. Seconds later, a suicide car bomber drove into the crowd.
Police estimated that each car was loaded with nearly 100 kilograms 220 pounds of explosives.
Who has access to those kind of explosives? And who benefits from emptying the country of its poor and disillusioned Muslims???
Deputy Health Minister Hakim al-Zamili said at least 88 people were killed and 156 were wounded.
The explosions left body parts strewn on the bloodstained pavement as black smoke rose into the sky. Police sealed off the area as ambulances rushed to the scene.
Survivors were taken to nearby al-Kindi Hospital where emergency personnel worked feverishly over the bloodied and badly wounded.
Bodies covered in blue and white cloth littered the outdoor courtyard at the hospital. Family members and friends were at the side of the dead, screaming in grief and crying out oaths.
A suicide bomber killed at least 63 people in the same area last month.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite, denounced the attack.
"We condemn this crime and we promise that the security forces will pursue all those involved in this crime and bring them to justice," he said in a statement.
What a joke - this guy is powerless to stop these massacres. He doesn't even know who's committing them!
Hours later, a bomb followed by a mortar attack struck a market in the predominantly Shiite town of Khalis, 50 miles north of Baghdad, killing at least 12 people and wounding 29, police said.
The 88 killed in Baghdad made it the single deadliest attack against civilians in Iraq since Nov. 23, when suspected al-Qaida in Iraq fighters attacked Baghdad's Sadr City Shiite slum with a series of car bombs and mortars that struck in quick succession, killing at least 215 people.
In other violence, gunmen killed a teacher as she was on her way to work at a girls' school in the mainly Sunni area of Khadra in western Baghdad, police said, adding that the teacher's driver was wounded in the drive-by shooting.
Two mortar shells also landed on a primary school in the Sunni stronghold neighborhood of Dora in southern Baghdad, killing one woman waiting for her child and wounding eight students, police said.
Welcome to the 'free' Iraq, under US occupation.
It has to be Mossad or Israel who is perpetrating this divide and rule policy.
It is what they have always wanted. Even in the 1980s they made these noises:
see for refrences
http://www.harunyahya.com/articles/32Iraq_war.php
and:
http://www.the7thfire.com/new_world_order/zionism/zionist_plan_for_the_m...
24 MORE families were destroyed for Exxon and Halliburton on Saturday. My heart breaks for all of the families who have endured that loss. In one day, the American death toll for January just about doubled. The Iraqi death toll seems to have no bounds. Who ever thought it was a good idea to have oil company executives run the country? The reason for so much of the chaos and incompetence of the occupation is: Bush and his cronies don't really care what happens on the ground in Iraq - they care about what comes out of the ground.
= rule and domination by the rich. This is why Bush is President of the US...this is why Zionists like democracy because they can buy it and control it....not as easy if you have a strong Muslim Khalif who rules.
Look at how Financiers brought down the Ottomons...plunging the world into endless war and debt ever since.
see http://www.egy.com/historica/
Seems I recall Qrs saying on Saturday, when that copter came down, "this is only going to get worse, from here on", and reluctantly having to agree. A day later, here's the proof.