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| Iraq |
| Baghdad bombs toll now 98 dead |
| 2008-02-03 |
| BAGHDAD - Sources in the interior and defence ministries said that at least 98 people were killed and 208 wounded in the two explosions in the pet markets of Al-Ghazl and Baghdad al-Jadida. A breakdown of the tolls for each attack was not given by the ministry sources on Saturday. Officials on Friday said 64 people had been killed and 107 wounded in the market bombings -- 46 dead at Al-Ghazl and 18 killed at Baghdad al-Jadida. The explosives were strapped to two mentally impaired women and then triggered by remote control in co-ordinated blasts, a top Iraqi security official said on Friday. “Both women were mentally impaired. They were wearing belts containing 15 kilogrammes (33 pounds) of explosives,” Major General Qasim Ata, spokesman for the Baghdad security plan, told AFP on Friday. “The explosives were detonated by remote control,” he said of the blasts which occurred within 20 minutes of each other. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #5 I posted an article I received from a friend of mine on my weblog. that covers the "silence" of "mainstream" muslims quite well. It's chilling, not only because of what it says about muslims, but also because much of the same thing is happening today in the US. As usual, we (the free world) will do nothing until it's almost too late, and retaining our freedom will be three times as expensive then as it would be now - IF we succeed. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2008-02-03 13:41 |
| #4 MHW wins today's prize for seeing the hidden message. Yep, not a friggin word. Anyone who talks about the "mainstream muslim" is a fool. The mainstream muslim is either complicit or irrelevant by their silence. The radicals are in charge and are setting the agenda. We fight or get overrun. |
| Posted by: remoteman 2008-02-03 11:21 |
| #3 So far the number of demonstrations by moslems against this event totals zero. Also, not fatwas issued condemning it. Of course it may have resulted in a decrease in Ben Ladin's favorable rating from 67 to 65 in Pakistan. |
| Posted by: mhw 2008-02-03 09:42 |
| #2 All I want to say is "bastards!" dittos djh_usmc! :( |
| Posted by: RD 2008-02-03 02:10 |
| #1 All I want to say is "bastards!" |
| Posted by: djh_usmc 2008-02-03 01:02 |