Posted on 07/01/2006 1:48:05 AM PDT by HAL9000
Sixty died, 76 wounded in an attack in Baghdad
BAGHDAD - Sixty people were killed and 76 wounded in an attack with the trapped van Saturday morning close to a very animated market of Sadr City, large district Shiite of Baghdad, according to a new assessment.
"the new assessment of the explosion which took place towards 10H00 (06H00 GMT) close to market Al-Oula of Sadr City raises with 60 dead and 76 wounded", declared a source of safety.
The attack, clerk at one hour of great multitude, caused enormous destruction around the principal market of the populeux district. It was made, according to witnesses, by a van charged with explosive products, which had been parked with only ten meters of the market of vegetables, fruits and other products.
Certain witnesses on the spot indicated that the van was driven by a kamikaze. But, the sources of safety privilege the thesis of the booby-trapped car parked close to the entry of the market.
At least a score of cars were destroyed by the explosion and of many ambulances and vehicles of the firemen were on the spot, two hours after the attack.
The frontages of many buildings around the market were broken and the fragments of glass mixed with the puddle pools with blood whereas private cars continued to evacuate the casualties.
The majority of the victims were directed towards the hospital Imam Ali, the principal hospital of the large district Shiite.
The preceding assessment of sedentary source made state of 33 killed and 41 wounded.
According to sources' of safety, the attack aimed at a patrol of police force but the majority of the victims are the civil ones.
At once after the deflagration, a long column of white smoke rose in the sky in the North-East of the capital where a safety device is in place since 14 June mobilizing more than 50.000 police officers and Iraqi soldiers and the American soldiers.
In another attack, three commandos of police force were killed and two wounded in the explosion of a bomb in Baghdad Jadida, in the east of the capital, indicated another source of safety.
In the south of the capital and more precisely with Doura, inhabitants, alerted by odors stinking, discovered a fall collective into a house in construction.
"Six trades of decomposition were extracted from the uninhabited house", declared the source of safety, without being able to give precise details on the identity of the people who were buried there.
Maybe we should build a wall around Iraq, then fill it with water.
The van was driven by a "kamikaze"? These Babelfish translations turn a horrible incident into a "All your base are belong to us" moment.
WHEN are these animals going to finally be exterminated?
Oh, maybe we could trace their cell phone, maybe the credit card or money? Why not?
Effin' NYSLIMES!!!
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
Just remember, our wonderful USSC thinks this "kamakazi" deserves the same legal rights as our military.
Another war crime.
Yeah.
That'll fix it.
Damn good thing I can swim...
Don't waste water fill it with oil.
The media, definitely, without a doubt is contributing to all of this.
They will do everything they can to make this mission a failure.
They won't succeed, though.
It's just disgraceful that our troops have to fight the terrorists and the media.
Maybe we should concentrate on fixing OUR problems instead of fixing everybody elses problems.
Who is this "we" and what are you doing to fix any of OUR problems?
Seriously, are you contributing?
We, the West, the United States.
We, the United States, while invading secular Iraq, continues to allow Wahhabist Saudi Arabia fund mosques, schools, think tanks and lobbies on our own soil, whose purpose is to undermine our culture and impose Islamic law on everybody else.
I am AWARE...are you?
And those nuts over there wanted to give them amnesty....
What are YOU doing to contribute to helping fix the problems? I don't mean spouting off a bunch of hot air...I mean what of value are you doing to actually contribute?
Terrorism IS one of OUR problems, by the way.
I am raising awareness of the problem.
Are you?
Or do you just blindly follow?
And from what I see, you're not raising any awareness that is news to anyone. You're just complaining a lot about what needs to be done and making completely useless suggestions, like filling Iraq with water.
Are you actually doing anything to help alleviate the situation? Are you contributing anything to the fight against terror? Have you had anything to do with the fact that there has not been a terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11? Are you part of the solution or are you part of the problem by just sitting back criticizing and complaining?
I'm trying to make you think here. Please don't make that so difficult for me.
"I am raising awareness of the problem.
Are you?
Or do you just blindly follow?"
Geez. You might want to check Allegra's FR name and info before making really, truly, completely, unequivocally, absolutely embarrassing statements on the internet.
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