[GRRRRR]

From FOX...
Four hours ago, two seperate men with bombs strapped to their bodies, walked into two seperate buildings at opposite ends of town.

Big celebrations going on, four day Muslim Holiday "Feast of Sacrifice", could not understand reporter..

Homicide bombers walked right up to dignitaries.

At least 57 at this outbreak of violence in Northern Iraq.

[Miss Marple]

Al Qaeda. It appears to me that this is a clumsy yet violent attempt to get two rival parties warring with each other.

[BCrago66]

If these numbers holf up, these are the biggest terrorist attacks in Iraq since the start of the conflict. Iraq has about 25 million people; America has 300 million. Thus multiply by 12 to get a proportioanl number murdered: It is as if 1,200 were killed in America, almost 1/2 of those murdered on 9/11.

Of course, the basic measure is that all lives are vuluable in themselves, not merely in relation to the larger nation, but in any case this is a terrible thing that happened.