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Iraq
Chlorine truck bomber kills 27 in Ramadi
2007-04-06
BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber driving a truck loaded with TNT and toxic chlorine gas crashed into a police checkpoint in western Ramadi on Friday, killing at least 27 people and wounding dozens, police in the Anbar provincial capital said.

Police Maj. Mohammed Mahmoud al Nattah, member of the Anbar Salvation council, told state-run Iraqiya television the bomber hit a residential complex and dozens of wounded were taken to the Ramadi hospital.

Police opened fire as the suicide car bomber sped toward a checkpoint, three miles west of the city, according to police Col. Tariq al-Dulaimi. Nearby buildings were heavily damaged and police were searching the rubble for more victims.
Posted by:Glenmore

#3  First report, based on Iraqi sources. Let's wait for something a little more definitive.
Posted by: Chuck Simmins   2007-04-06 11:58  

#2  Like the MSM will report anything other than the US is causing all the trouble and QUAGMIRE!!!
Posted by: DarthVader   2007-04-06 11:44  

#1  the MSM is really missing this. for years its been, is this an anti-occupation insurgency, or a Sunni vs Shiite civil war. With either answer holding negative prospects for the success of the mission. But what now seems to be happening in Anbar is a full fledged Sunni vs Sunni civil war. Which, despite the tragedy for the civilians involved, has positive prospects of the success of the mission. Time to get this meme out, folks.
Posted by: liberalhawk   2007-04-06 10:25  

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