41 killed in bombing at Baghdad college

[cali]

By Brian Murphy, Associated Press | February 26, 2007

BAGHDAD -- A suicide bomber triggered a ball-bearing-packed charge yesterday, killing at least 41 people at a mostly Shi'ite college whose main gate was left littered with blood-soaked notebooks and papers amid the bodies.

Witnesses said a woman carried out the attack at the business school annex to Mustansiriyah University, but Interior Ministry officials said it was investigating the reports. The school's main campus was hit by a string of bombings last month that killed 70 people.

The attack occurred as a powerful Shi'ite militia leader bitterly complained that "car bombs continue to explode" despite a security crackdown in Baghdad and suggested he was rethinking his cooperation.

The statement issued in the name of the radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr put increased strains on the US-Iraqi security sweeps, which are aimed at restoring order in the capital. The cleric said any crackdown that includes American soldiers was doomed to failure.

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http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2007/02/26/41_killed_in_bombing_at_baghdad_college/

Yep. Things are improving in Baghdad. Violence is way down. I can't even imagine the courage it would take to walk out your front door in Baaghdad- let alone attend college or go shopping.

[wake.up.america]

1. No admission by Bush that he opened a Padora's Box.

[bluerum]

3. Yeah right. The maroon thinks he is saving the right thinking christian

way of life don't ya know.

While he spends us, our kids, and grandkids into life long debt the rest of the world laughs and sneers - and pockets the profits.

[liberal renegade]

2. So much for higher education

[acmavm]

4. There is so much wrong with this situation on so many levels.

These were university kids. And they were killed by a woman. How horrifying.

Those that are educated. have some liquid assets, and have the opportunity have been leaving the country as fast as they can. Now apparently some fanatics are determined to make sure that there is no educated class in the future either.