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| Bombs kill at least 80 in Kirkuk |
| 2007-07-17 |
| At least 80 people were killed on Monday in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk in a coordinated attack by a suicide truck bomber in a crowded market and a separate car bomb parked on a busy street, police said. Iraqi police said 136 people were wounded in the Kirkuk blasts and warned that the death toll could rise further. “Most of the wounded, which include women and children, are in critical condition because they are suffering from burns,” said Major General Barhan Habib Tayyib, police chief of Kirkuk. A Reuters cameraman on the scene described the carnage after the bomb exploded in a market near an office of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani’s Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party. The explosion scattered bodies across the market, set dozens of cars on fire and trapped passengers on a bus where they burned to death, the cameraman said. The car bomb exploded in a commercial area called Iskan, near shops and a bus garage, police said. The two blasts came within minutes of each other, they added. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 And I think a lot of the wounds to Bush are self-inflicted. He has the bully pulpit and should be using it. You only read the MNF news releases here. If I was Bush, I would call a press conference everyday in the brand new press room facility at the WH and personally read everyone of these releases to the Washington press corps and then go on TV/Radio once a week and do the same thing to the American people. I can't believe that the most powerful man in the world is out manuevered by the MSM everyday. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2007-07-17 14:04 |
| #3 I think the point has been made before on this forum that the donks don't care who wins in Iraq as long as George Bush loses. They hate the man, pure and simple, and they don't really care about much of anything else. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-07-17 11:59 |
| #2 No, Glenmore, they do not since they are "professional politicians" of the left wing of the Democratic Party. These are the same people that deserted everyone in Southeast Asia in 1975, and then tried to blame the Khmer Rouge's Killing Fields on the US. They are also the same people that invoke the names of the troops and their families in order to justify trying to lose a war that the troops overwhelmingly support. They are the same people that said that President Bush should "listen to the generals" but refused to listen to General Petraeus when he says all he really needs is some time and the troops in the Surge to win. |
| Posted by: Shieldwolf 2007-07-17 04:37 |
| #1 The 'people' who do things like this are who we let win if we quit and go home. How can the Pelosi-Murtha group live with themselves for trying to allow that? Have they no consciences? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-07-17 01:04 |