Thanks to Mama Dearest for pointing to this article:
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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050716/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_blast
"Iraq Suicide Blast Kills 54, Injures 82"
2 hours, 16 minutes ago
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide attacker detonated explosives strapped to his body Saturday at a gas station near a Shiite mosque south of Baghdad, triggering a huge explosion in a fuel tanker and killing at least 54 people, police said.
Eighty-two people were injured."
Note: The following text is an exact quote:
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http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/News_Release.asp?NewsRelease=20050711.txt
NEWS RELEASE
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND
7115 South Boundary Boulevard
MacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101
Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894
July 16, 2005
Release Number: 05-07-11
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TRAFFIC CONTROL POINT NETS MORTAR SYSTEM
TIKRIT, Iraq – Task Force Liberty and Iraqi army Soldiers discovered a mortar system in a vehicle during a joint operation near Balad at about 5:00 p.m. July 15.
The Soldiers were operating a traffic control point when they found an 82mm mortar tube, tripod, base plate and breach cap in the back of a truck.
The items were confiscated and the driver was detained and brought to a Coalition Forces base for questioning.
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This is one sentence that should be read slowly and absorbed totally. Could be anywhere, anytime. We must be cautious about who is around us and even what time of day we do things (like fill up the gas tank). They will use whatever opportunity they have to take out the maximum amount of lives.