 Suicide bombers killed 67 Iraqi civilians and police and 14 corpses were found in Baghdad on Friday in escalating violence that has cast doubts over the new government's ability to defeat insurgents. In the deadliest blast of the day, a suicide bomber in a car blew himself up near a vegetable market in a southern Iraqi town, killing at least 58 people and wounding 44. The blast blew market stalls to pieces, as panic reigned amid the carnage and medics tried to treat the most urgent cases next to the mangled wreckage of several vehicles. The attack hit the mostly Shiite town of Souwayra, reinforcing fears that guerrilla violence will spill over into civil war as Iraq's leaders struggle to ease sectarian tensions.
| The Shiites are trying to avoid that civil war, but the Sunni bad guyz are already well into their end of it. |
In Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, a suicide bomber blew up his car beside a minibus carrying policemen, killing at least nine and wounding several, local police said. In northern Baghdad, a resident alerted police after he saw bodies being buried. Police found the corpses of 14 men. The victims, blindfolded and hands bound, were executed with a bullet to the back of the head. |