Three blasts set off by suicide bombers in cars went off in quick succession in Baghdad on Sunday morning, killing at least 30 people and wounding 200, Iraq's Interior Ministry said.
The blasts went off within five minutes of one another, all near embassy buildings in the capital.
Two of the explosions occurred in the Mansour neighborhood in western Baghdad. One blast was close to the Egyptian Embassy, the other near a complex that holds a number of embassies, including those of Syria and Germany.
The third car bomb exploded near the Iranian Embassy in the central part of the city.
"Is this the result of the elections we voted in?" asked Fued Ahmed, a resident who lives near the Iranian Embassy. "We voted. What did we vote for? The explosion? If they can tell us where there's a safe place that we can go to, we'll go there."
An elderly man added, "Don't talk to me, talk to the government -- with Nuri al-Maliki, with Ayad Allawi, ask them why all these victims lost their lives." He was referring to the current prime minister and head of the Iraqiya bloc, respectively.
In a statement, the Iraqiya coalition said that the day's bombings highlight "the indisputable violations of these security forces and their failure in halting terrorism, which has stolen the lives of tens of thousands of innocent martyrs of people in Iraq."
The Iraqiya bloc, which won a narrow victory in recent elections, implored the current government to restore peace until the formation of the new government.
For his part, al-Maliki called an urgent meeting Sunday with his national security council.
THAT ISN'T ALL:
In addition to Sunday's bombings, the security council discussed the killings of 25 people late Friday in a Sunni village near Baghdad by gunmen wearing military uniforms.
In that incident, five of the dead were women. Most of the victims were shot in the head, and all were found handcuffed, police said. Al Qaeda in Iraq is suspected to be behind the killings, but authorities stressed the investigation is ongoing.
Meanwhile, in central Baghdad, Iraqi security forces arrested a suspected suicide bomber driving a car loaded with explosives in the al-Massbah neighborhood. The would-be bomber was targeting the police headquarters charged with protecting foreign embassies, Iraqi authorities said.
Also Sunday, Baghdad police reported two roadside bomb explosions in Baghdad. One injured nine people and the other wounded five people. Six police officers were among the injured in those blasts.
Police also reported that explosives attached to two cars in south Baghdad wounded two civilians.
In the city of Mosul, a car bomb exploded, killing three civilians and injuring 35, including seven policemen, police said.
The series of suicide bombings near the embassies was the fifth coordinated attack in Baghdad since August 2009.
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This is Iraq, for G-d's sake! Why are we not hearing about all this???
Is everything we have done over there for nothing? Is abu bama sending Iraq back to hell?
The short answer is yes.
DAMN HIS EVIL SOUL!
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On Distant Battlefields, Survival Odds Rise Sharply
This is one of the most fascinating articles I have read lately. We never hear of these things in our daily news cycles. It is at once horrifying, hopeful, sad, and frightening. In the middle of the article, this paragraph jumped off the screen at me.:
"The rising survival rate, now touching 95% for those who live long enough to get medical treatment, is in turn introducing new problems caring for patients with serious and chronic injuries, including multiple amputations and brain damage. The cost of treating such lasting injuries will be borne by the U.S. medical system for decades to come."
Immediately, my mind jumped fast forward into "obama world" where death panels WILL be established, and I got cold chills down my spine.
What fate lies ahead for these Wounded Warriors who gave so much?
Please read this article. It is about a different kind of terror that most of us will never know. That we send our best and our brightest to bear the brunt of foolish and selfish decisions by a corrupt political elite is bad enough. But with the amazing advances we have made in medicine, these Warriors who would at least have had a future, might now be left by the wayside as a drain on our healthcare system.
We MUST not allow this deathcare bill to prevail. We simply MUST NOT!
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