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| Bomb Kills 31, Wounds 58 in Iraqi Town; Bomber Beaten To Death |
| 2006-12-30 |
| A bomb planted on a minibus killed 31 people in a fish market in a mostly Shiite town south of Baghdad on Saturday, and the man blamed for parking the vehicle was cornered and killed by a mob as he walked away from the explosion. There was no indication that the explosion, in Kufa, a Shiite town 100 miles south of the Iraqi capital, was related to the execution of Saddam Hussein. The attack came on the eve of when Iraq's Shiites begin celebrating Eid al-Adha, the most important holiday of the Islamic calendar. Shoppers had crowded the market to buy supplies for the four-day festival. At least 58 people were wounded, said Issa Mohammed, director of the morgue in the neighboring town of Najaf. Television footage showed hundreds of men in traditional Arab headdresses swarming around the vehicle's charred frame, toppled on its side in the street. Ambulances and fire trucks pulled up to the site, and a coffin could be seen being loaded onto the top of a car. |
| Posted by:.com |
| #8 Either they were very low level idiots not worth the effort or they were released with a message to garcia. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2006-12-30 21:18 |
| #7 Oh, shit. I look to Verlaine, OS and .com for the answers. This started out to be such a good day...I wonder if the liquor stores are still open. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-12-30 21:14 |
| #6 Speculation: Kufa is Tater's "spiritual" home-base, and parked car-bombs are often non-AQ operations (no suicide driver) - therefore, seems like an Iraqi Sunni hit on Sadr. Not just a random market in a random town. I'm skeptical that Iraqis will rise up and do what MNF-I and the Iraqi govt. have almost literally refused to do - secure the country. Too many players, no coordination or trust or reason for trust. Meanwhile, I read that the two Al-Quds Iranian officers were released. I know - there must be a lot about this situation I don't know. But I'm tempted to say f**k it, I've had it - we nab two IRGC big-shots, red-handed dirty with info about EFP operations in Iraq, and we don't have them for the duration? There was even a quote from an unidentified "US official" touting the impact of the temporary detention, saying Iran would now realize there was a price to pay for their meddling. I'm NOT kidding. It's gotten to the point that I really do wonder about the sense and ability of almost all the senior leadership. I've been puzzled and aghast at what the civilian leadership and MNF-I/CENTCOM leadership have accepted as tolerable for some time. This is the last straw. WTF is going on? |
| Posted by: Verlaine 2006-12-30 21:01 |
| #5 Heads UP. Iraqis are not going to take much more of this. I think you are about to see a sea change. Saddam is not the only one who will do a perp walk amongst the Iraqis. More later. |
| Posted by: newc 2006-12-30 20:20 |
| #4 Well AP with the Arab/allenist mindset that is what lots of them do expect, someone else to do it for them. Ripping this turd (if he was the perp) into chunks is a good sign. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-12-30 14:16 |
| #3 Happy Eid al-Adha, set off a bomb, what a religion *sigh*. I hope that the mob action against the perp is a good sign, all right. The people need to rise up and do their part to take out this terrorist pestilence. We cannot be expected to do it all for them. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2006-12-30 14:12 |
| #2 The mob vengeance is a good sign. It means the public has had enough of lawlessness run rampant that the government hasn't stopped, and are starting to stand up to defend themselves. It also means they feel strong enough to fight back. And being a criminal of any kind is a LOT harder when the public actively does anything to stop you, and doesn't just turn away. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-12-30 13:53 |
| #1 Ambulances and fire trucks pulled up to the site, and a coffin could be seen being loaded onto the top of a car. A coffin? Are they kept on hand? Or was the attack on a funeral? |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2006-12-30 13:32 |