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Truck bomber slaughters 102 in Baghdad
breitbart ^ | Feb 03 10:46 AM US/Eastern

Posted on 02/03/2007 8:05:08 AM PST by maquiladora

A suicide bomber has blown up his truck near a central Baghdad market, killing at least 102 people as shoppers were buying household items ahead of the night-time curfew.

Another 215 people were wounded in the gruesome attack in Baghdad's Al-Sadriya district, security and medical sources said Saturday.

The bombing was the worst attack this year and the second biggest after the Sadr City car bombings last November which killed more than 200 people.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
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To: kinghorse

lose=loss in the prior post.

The loss loose lose variant in the English language pisses me off :).


21 posted on 02/03/2007 8:45:37 AM PST by kinghorse (calls them like I sees them)
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To: maquiladora

This is a continuing outrage. Any and all people responsible for this should be hunted down and killed. The sooner the better.


22 posted on 02/03/2007 8:46:38 AM PST by popdonnelly (Our first obligation is to keep the power of the Presidency out of the hands of the Clintons.)
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To: maquiladora
Jorge is Sadar dead yet????
23 posted on 02/03/2007 8:46:39 AM PST by org.whodat (Never let the facts get in the way of a good assumption.)
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To: maquiladora
I hope everyone knows that there is NO WAY you can combat this kind of mass murder insanity. You can have a MILLION troops in Iraq or in any other theater of operations and you would only provide more targets for these maniacal suicide bombers.

As long as someone is willing to strap on an explosive belt and walk smiling, into a crowded market with women shopping and children playing and push the button to blow themselves and the innocents back to their basic elements, this will continue ad infinitum. And there is NOTHING......I repeat NOTHING, MILITARILY that we or anyone else, save Jesus Christ HIMSELF, can do to STOP it.

24 posted on 02/03/2007 8:47:33 AM PST by PISANO
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To: kinghorse
The loss loose lose variant in the English language pisses me off :).

LOL - What's amazing is how many native English speakers confuse loose and lose.

25 posted on 02/03/2007 8:54:41 AM PST by Ben Chad
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To: maquiladora

I've long assumed this - feedback from fellow FReepers would be appreciated.

Here goes:

This has been going on for years. Some of the Iraqi people have to know of these plans ahead of time. You would think that the Iraqis themselves would be so sick of these slaughters that they would be turning in these monsters in droves. Yet, that doesn't seem to be the case - or at least not very often.

Is it because the hate for Sunni v. Shia and vice versa is so ingrained that Sunnis won't turn in Sunnis and Shias won't turn in Shias for planning the murder of the other faction?


26 posted on 02/03/2007 8:58:08 AM PST by Let's Roll ("...given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor - you will have war"- W.Churchill)
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To: Ninian Dryhope

It apperas they are honing virulent "skills" that will be used elsewhere around the globe. Very scary stuff to me. Iran is behind a lot of this and must be dealt with before things get totally out of hand. The situation IS depressing.


27 posted on 02/03/2007 8:58:34 AM PST by Starboard
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To: Let's Roll

Its a civil war.


28 posted on 02/03/2007 9:02:06 AM PST by Diverdogz
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To: pissant

"The jihadists driving suicide truck bombs deserve"

The "Driver" is almost always someone from OUTSIDE the country, convinced by his local imam to go kill..

He arrives, is kept secluded from anyone, tapes his Movie/will(whatever), then gets stoned on thier favorite weed, before being sent to blow himself up...


29 posted on 02/03/2007 9:02:09 AM PST by tcrlaf (VOTE DEM! You'll Look GREAT In A Burqa!)
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To: Starboard

I think - some hought should be given - and follow
through on the use of our most potent weapons..including
the big one....have them all clear out or stay and have
a mass suicide for themkselves. Damn tired of all this
BS...our kids are victims of a slaughterhouse mentality
by these fanatics..and it is worrisome for the decision
makers..but strentgh they like..show them the best !! JK


30 posted on 02/03/2007 9:04:01 AM PST by sanjacjake
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To: PISANO
These Islamic cultists have roamed the globe for decades targeting women and children in the marketplace, with impunity. They have kidnapped and murdered Olympians, blown up sleeping soldiers, and just last year blew up a pizza parlor in Israel killing an American teenager.

Why do they get away with it?

Because no one, not world leaders, not world press, not the UN, no one says a damn thing in response except, "let's get the Palestinian and Israeli peace process moving".

That's it. The world press and the West's leaders have given these cults an excuse and a rationalization for their crimes against women and children. And it is Israel.

For decades now, on and on.

Even the Pope refuses to take them on.

It's blackmail. Leaders are afraid to incite them for fear for their citizenry, and I cannot blame them.

It will take a ruthless SOB to lead a charge against these cowards, along with military and law enforcement.
31 posted on 02/03/2007 9:05:15 AM PST by roses of sharon
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To: PISANO
Sorry, but even Jesus Christ couldn't stop it.

He gave us something called Free Will.

32 posted on 02/03/2007 9:07:32 AM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: tcrlaf
Uh...being stoned on weed is not going to give one the necessary courage to blow themselves up.

More like an upper or speed of some sort, IMO.

33 posted on 02/03/2007 9:09:30 AM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: Ben Chad
native English speakers confuse loose and lose

Right. Such as Wordsworth and Coleridge.

34 posted on 02/03/2007 9:10:22 AM PST by RightWhale (300 miles north of Big Wild Life)
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To: roses of sharon

More on the global jihad:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1778618/posts


35 posted on 02/03/2007 9:14:54 AM PST by roses of sharon
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To: Let's Roll

You might read this

http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/20553

"Is it because the hate for Sunni v. Shia and vice versa is so ingrained ..."

No. Intermarriage between the 2 sects is very common in Iraqi families. So, it isn't just blind religious hatred. It is political.


36 posted on 02/03/2007 9:16:22 AM PST by nuconvert ([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business] (...but his head is so tiny...))
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To: sanjacjake
"our kids are victims of a slaughterhouse mentality by these fanatics"

AGREE. There will be no negotiated "peace in our time" nonsense with these crazies.

37 posted on 02/03/2007 9:24:52 AM PST by Starboard
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To: maquiladora
There is a solution,........ but Americans don't have the b@lls$ to do what is necessary.

Seeing as to how Islam fosters and encourages such violence within it's own, Ann Coulter was vilified by the press when she wrote,(and I paraphrase) that we need to kill their "Preachers", and Christianize the population.

A good case in point is the allowed survival of "Al Sadar", who has done nothing but caused our US troops immense trouble in the past 2 years.

Now common sense dictates that he and those like him should have been taken out!

Can anyone suggest anything more effective?

I didn't think so.

38 posted on 02/03/2007 9:28:16 AM PST by Hillarys nightmare (So Proud to be living in "Jesus Land" ! Don't you wish everyone did?)
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To: roses of sharon
More evidence of West's decades old capitulation to the press and the jihadist sensibilities.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1778636/posts
39 posted on 02/03/2007 9:29:48 AM PST by roses of sharon
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To: pissant

The Jihadists parents, children,wives or husbands, brothers and sisters, even their dogs and cats should be put to death.
Along with everyone connected with them. That would put an end to this crap real quickly.


40 posted on 02/03/2007 9:58:24 AM PST by Joe Boucher (an enemy of islam)
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