100 people killed in Iraq Today.

[brettdale]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2007-02-01-mortar-attack_x.htm


BAGHDAD (AP) — A pair of suicide bombers detonated explosives Thursday among shoppers in a crowded outdoor market in a Shiite city south of Baghdad, killing 45 people and wounding 150, police said. Bombs and a mortar attack killed at least 17 others in both Shiite and Sunni areas of Baghdad.


Overall, about 100 people were killed or found dead across the country, reflecting the ongoing wave of sectarian and insurgency bloodletting as the U.S. military gears up for a major security operation to stem the violence.

The biggest attack took place in the center of Hillah, a city about 60 miles south of Baghdad. Police and witnesses said the two bombers strolled into the Maktabat market about 6 p.m. when the area was packed with shoppers buying food for the evening meal.

One of the bombers detonated his explosives when he was approached by police and the other blew himself up moments later, according to police spokesman Capt. Muthanna Khaled, who gave the casualty figures.

[leftwingnut]

1. wow...it just seems to get worse and worse...eom

[mzmolly]

2. "Bringin it on," perhaps?

What a nightmare.

[gordianot]

3. Wonder if it is Civil War yet, or just killing for the sake of killing?

When so many different parties are doing this killing, I wonder who and how do they keep track?

[babylonsister]

4. And we're supposed to stop this? As if this isn't already bad enough,

wait til the slaughter of the troops start. And it will all be on dimson's head, and those who allowed him to advance with his 'surge'.

[Chipper Chat]

5. Lieberman: "We're making progress in Iraq" (Nov 2006)

www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15637887/page/4/ - 46k
Hello? Holy Joe? What planet are you living on?

[Jacobin]

6. Its all good for Holy Joe

[butterfly77]

10. The more the better as far as lieberman is concerned...

then he will feel safe and he will have his victory...

[Chipper Chat]

16. Wonder how Holy Joe will feel after we carpet-bomb Iran

and the Iranian government immediately retaliates by obliterating Israel?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. Closer to 500.

On average, about 500 people die every day in Iraq.

[uppityperson]

8. k&r for Iraqis

[malaise]

9. Surging to their deaths

Thanks Bush.

[liberal renegade]

11. I'm wondering

if anybody has a count of just how many car or pedestrian bombs have been detonated since March 2003. Anybody keeping track?

[blues90]

12. It's horrifing stuff

First there is all the innocent deaths and they won't call this a civil war .

These people are serious . I just can't imagine what it takes for someone to strap on a bomb and walk itno a place knowing they will die as well .

I try to imagine if we were attacked if I could do the same thing .

[pampango]

14. The French resistance must be rolling over in their graves.

If they had only figured out that the best way to get rid of the German occupiers was to kill as many of their fellow French civilians as they could, they would have been much more successful. Did they have limited success in combating the German military machine directly? Yes, but they drew the line at killing innocent civilians.

While I understand the resistance to the US occupation of Iraq, I have nothing but scorn for a resistance that bombs markets and intentionally kills innocent civilians in attacks that are not even targeted at the occupiers. Are they achieving some political success through this strategy? Yes, but that hardly makes them heroes.

Our nation conducts an illegal, immoral invasion and accepts civilian deaths as "collateral damage" while others resist our invasion by intentionally killing civilians as their main strategy.

[doc03]

13. Sometimes Democracy is a messy business

:sarcasm:

[nam78_two]

15. You want to see people who are really living with terror-look at the Iraqis

K&R