Twin Bombings Kill 43 in Baghdad

[jannyk]

Source: BBC NEWS

Developing...

Two bombs in busy Baghdad markets have killed at least 43 people, in the deadliest bombings in the capital for several months.

The bomb, which was hidden in a box of birds, exploded during a busy time for the market, also injuring 75 people.

A second blast 20 minutes later tore through another crowded market in the southeast of the capital

Correspondents say the fragile sense of normality in the capital that has followed significant improvements in security could be shattered by such deadly bombings.


Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7221639.stm

[Eugene]

1. Update at link: Twin bombings kill 50 in Baghdad

Source: BBC News

Last Updated: Friday, 1 February 2008, 10:11 GMT

Twin bombings kill 50 in Baghdad

Two bombs in busy Baghdad markets have killed at least 50
people.

The first blast, believed to have been detonated by a female
suicide bomber, struck at around 1020 local time (0720GMT)
in a popular animal market.

A second blast 20 minutes later tore through another crowded
market in the east of the capital.

Friday's death toll was the city's deadliest since violence
fell in the wake of a US troop surge in the second half of
2007.

-snip-

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7221639.stm

[Hissyspit]

2. The surge is working. Yay.

And therefore all of our war crimes are justified. Yay.

Yay...

[Hissyspit]

3. CNN: Female Suicide Bombers Kill Dozens in Baghdad Markets

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/01/iraq.main/index.html?section=cnn_topstories&eref=yahoo

Female suicide bombers kill dozens in Baghdad markets

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Female suicide bombers blew themselves up at two markets in Baghdad, killing at least 53 people and wounding 94 more, authorities told CNN. Two deadly suicide attacks took place only minutes apart in Baghdad on Friday morning.

The first blast happened about 10:30 a.m. in a central Baghdad market that The Associated Press reports sells birds. It killed at least eight people and wounded 14 others, officials said, though casualty figures varied as authorities tried to determine the scope of the blast.

About half an hour later, another suicide bomber set off an explosive at an animal market in Baghdad, killing at least 45 people and wounding 80 others, police said.

The second bomb detonated at the Al Ghazil pet market, a popular destination where people buy and sell cats, dogs, monkeys and other animals. Watch the first reports out of Baghdad »

Attackers have struck the market on Fridays -- the only day it's open -- several times previously.

A bombing in January 2007 killed 15 and wounded 52 at the pet market, while an attack last November killed 13 and wounded 58.

The violence ripped through Baghdad after a period during which attacks and deaths dropped during the U.S.-led increase in troop strength called the "surge."

[Barrett808]

11. "Iraq has million-woman social time-bomb" - Coincidence?

Iraq has million-woman social time-bomb
By Aseel Kami ReutersPublished: January 31, 2008

BAGHDAD: Every week, letters from Iraqi widows spill across Samira al-Moussawi's desk. One wrote to ask whether she should spend what scant money she gets on her infant or on school books for her older son.

The member of parliament and head of a parliamentary women's committee is at her wits' end as to how to answer the desperate pleas from what could be as many as one to two million women.

Violence has fallen sharply across Iraq, but the number of women left without breadwinners is mounting, and with only a fraction of them receiving financial support from the government, officials fear the consequences could be explosive.

"What shall the widow do, deviate from what is right?" Moussawi said. "Terrorist groups exploit the destitute."

(more)

http://www.iht.com/articles/reuters/2008/01/31/africa/OUKWD-UK-IRAQ-WIDOWS.php

[ohio2007]

13. AQ used down syndrome women

Women in the pet markets grieve after the twin bombings, which were reportedly carried out against the will of the bombers



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=511678&in_page_id=1811


AQ new battle cry; "Women and children first"

[Hissyspit]

4. Update: At Least 64 Dead In Baghdad Market Bombs

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080201/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_violence

At least 64 dead in Baghdad market bombs
By HAMID AHMED, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD - A female suicide bomber blew herself up at the main pet market in central Baghdad, killing at least 46 people and wounding dozens in the deadliest bombing to strike the capital since 30,000 more American troops began flooding into central Iraq last spring, police said.

About 20 minutes later, a second female suicide bomber struck another bird market in a predominantly Shiite area in southeastern Baghdad. That blast killed at least 18 people and wounded 25, police said.

The attacks shortly before the weekly Islamic call to prayer resounded across the capital were the latest in a series of violent incidents that have been chipping away at Iraqi confidence in the permanence of recent security gains.

The first blast occurred about 10:20 a.m. when the woman detonated explosives hidden under her traditional black robe at the central al-Ghazl market. The pet bazaar had recently re-emerged as a popular shopping venue as Baghdad security improved and a Friday ban on driving was lifted.

Firefighters scooped up debris scattered among pools of blood, clothing and pigeon carcasses.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. That's just surge-frigging-tastic.

Iraqi soldiers walk past a pile of slippers that belonged to victims of a suicide bombing in central Baghdad on Friday.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22945797/

[madrchsod]

6. heck of a job george!

that surge is working just like everything else you have done! how many more months does the world have to suffer before he leaves?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

7. Blasts kill at least 64 in bustling Baghdad markets

Source: AFP

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Powerful blasts, one triggered by a female suicide bomber, killed more than 60 people as they ripped through two Baghdad pet markets on Friday, leaving trails of bloodied body parts, officials and witnesses said.
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Interior and defence ministry officials said at least 107 people were wounded in the deadliest attacks in the Iraqi capital since last August 1, when three car bombs killed more than 80 people.

Police said the woman suicide bomber struck in the popular Al-Ghazl pet market in central Baghdad mid-morning as hundreds of people were out enjoying the Muslim weekly holiday, killing 46 people and wounding 82.

The head of the bomber was seen lying in a pool of blood as emergency workers gathered body parts and the personal effects of those killed and wounded, an AFP correspondent said.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080201/wl_afp/iraqunrest

[Roland99]

8. hmm...does Al Qaeda use female suicide bombers?

[flamingpie2500]

9. Article on Cnn page says Both women were mentally disabled

PROPAGANDA!!!???
How the hell would anyone know that from a severed head?


http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/01/iraq.main/index.html

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. or more correctly CNN, "disassembled"

[winter999]

12. Well, there were people who knew these women.

One was known to locals as "the crazy lady."

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gkx-3oYeFwuWKCusr2jrojs98w8wD8UHKD380

One thing to be an informed volunteer, but this ain't it. Some heroes. Go ahead and try to defend them.

[junior college]

20. Correction. It wasn't "locals" who said one bomber was known as the "crazy lady"

It was "local police" who said that locals said this, i.e., people working for the occupation. This has propaganda written all over it. There is zero evidence to back the claim that the two bombers were mentally disabled.


"The chief Iraqi military spokesman in Baghdad, Brig. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, claimed the female bombers apparently had Down syndrome and the explosives were detonated by remote control. Bolstering that claim, local police said the woman in the first attack sold cream in the morning at the market and was known to locals as "the crazy lady.""

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gkx-3oYeFwuWKCusr2jrojs98w8wD8UHKD380

[superconnected]

14. Israel has done a lot of studies on suicide bombers and hamas

(when it's them hiring the bombers) go for the mentally ill and/or severely depressed/suicidal to begin with. Normal people, even in Iraq, are not likely to agree to be a suicide bomber even when they have a great chip on their shoulder.

[ChazII]

15. It appears

there are some questions even in the Shia community.

http://www.shiachat.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=234940137

[rayofreason]

16. Pretty low..

..to use mentally disabled people like that. And the target? People out to the market on a Friday to look at animals.

Disgusting. And to think that some call such piles of shit "freedom fighters".

[Amonester]

17. yeah, but where were those freedom fighters before 03/19/2003?

fearing saddam?

well, here's at least one thing the previous bushtcher ...uh, the previous butcher of baghdad was good for, hey.

[ChazII]

18. Al jazeera has this to say:

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/3E658E4D-A543-4155-9813-BA356F698451.htm

[Xenotime]

19. Why is nobody blaming * anymore?

This is clearly a protest to the occupation of their country. Just because no US persons were killed doesn't mean it wasn't targeted at them. If * would have pulled out, this wouldn't be happening.

[ohio2007]

21. the article is about "using" idiots to kill people in order to get a newsbyte in the west

it is clearly a protest against the US giving the Iraqi Shia majority the lion share role in govt.


Iraqi's Killing Iraqi's at the market place isn't hurting US military as the #'s indicate this current month may be hope for the Iraqi future;
http://icasualties.org/oif/default.aspx


this is an example when a 'retard' was given the task to kill people at a border checkpoint

TV - 14 year old Suicide Bomber

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPU4UN03t7E&feature=related



Kids should have better things to do



http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/05/2154764.htm

To wish for short term political gain and hope Iraqi's future remains lost in hell until after a US nov. election is sad