Another Al Qaeda Gift To Iraq
“Women and children were lining up near the gas station to get fuel … I saw burnt bodies.”
AP News Alert
Aug 1 07:19 AM US/Eastern
BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraqi police say the death toll from a fuel tanker explosion at a gas station caused by a suicide attacker has risen to at least 50.
A parked car bomb killed 17 civilians and left a gaping crater in a busy square Wednesday in central Baghdad, police said.
Another 32 people were wounded by the blast, a police officer said on condition of anonymity out of security concerns.
An Associated Press reporter at the scene said the explosion ripped a hole more than 3 feet deep and nearly 5 feet wide in the asphalt. Three minibuses and six cars were damaged by flames and flying debris. Blood pooled in the street.
A gas station and a nearby restaurant, which was closed at the time of the blast, also suffered damage.
The explosives had been planted in a vehicle in al-Hurriyah square in the mostly mixed Karradah neighborhood, and detonated around 10:15 a.m., the police officer said.
Thamir Sami, 33, was carrying clothes from his menswear shop out to his car when the explosion shook the area.
“Women and children were lining up near the gas station to get fuel … I saw burnt bodies. Other motorists and I helped evacuate the wounded before the ambulances came,” he said.
The bombing occurred nearly a week after a cluster of explosions, including one from a massive truck bomb, hit the same neighborhood. Karradah previously had been thought to be one of central Baghdad’s safest areas. Last Thursday’s blasts killed more than 60 people.
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August 1st, 2007 at 5:26 amI hope that the Iraqi people continue to see how evil AQ is and strengthen their will to defeat them and take back their country. With acts such as this one you would think they will. AQ represents everything evil in this world.
August 1st, 2007 at 6:00 amThe ideology posing as religion is the religion of pieces . . .
May the dirtbags be found and killed. No mercy.
August 1st, 2007 at 6:05 amIt doesn’t matter if we are in Iraq the Civil War is still going on what are our troops really accomplishing in Iraq? Lets bring them home and protect our borders
August 1st, 2007 at 6:24 amPat, you need to get this movie out before Gen Petraeus goes to Washington, or else instead of fighting the battle of ideas with it, it may become a historical documentary piece. That would suck.
August 1st, 2007 at 7:17 amThese asshole homicide bombers take the term “Man’s inhumanity to man” to an entirely new level. Their own countrymen slaughter their own people for little or no reason than to tell the liberators to leave.
August 1st, 2007 at 8:55 amThe Iraqi people need to help themselves by helping the forces capture these bastard killers. Perhaps that day is coming.
T:
I assume you are new here. I suggest instead of just spewing leftist drivel and showing how uneducated and uniformed you are about this war with statements like “what are our troops really accomplishing in Iraq?” you take time to read this site and all of its information and documented sources from on the ground.
On the right hand side of the page you will see links (beneath “Blogroll”) to other sites to further educate yourself. Take the blinders off and disconnect yourself from your idiot box (TV) long enough to lift the haze of the propaganda you have been brainwashed with all your life so you can absorb the truth.
Then feel free to come back to post and comment on what you found. Until that happens, all you do is make yourself look like a total uniformed jackass who has bought the left’s bullshit propaganda hook, line, and sinker.
August 1st, 2007 at 8:58 amThe funny thing is, the more these cowards murder innocent people, it gives me a bad impression of the entire religion. I see these US moslem women with rags on their heads, and I inwardly laugh at them. I can’t take them seriously, in that I can’t take their rags as solemn religious expression. I see the rags as symbols of support for murdering cowards. I am just being honest here. I am displaying human psychology. Before the islomofacists started on their murdering “jihad,” say before 9/11/01 (of course, they started much earlier, but 9/11/01 was the bellweather), I didn’t think twice about their rags. It was just their personal preference. Now, I see the rags as an expression of a.) support for murdering cowards and b.) oppression. This is what their “jihad” has done for their religion.
August 1st, 2007 at 8:59 amCivil war T?
Only 20% of Iraqis in the last ORB poll thought Iraq is in a civil war.
Nice try.
Terrorism is not civil war. Was the US in a civil war when US airliners crashed into a US city?
August 1st, 2007 at 9:00 amAnd just to show, it’s not a prejudice, when I see US Hindu women with their gowns/garb on, I don’t bat an eye. In fact, I usually think they look pretty.
August 1st, 2007 at 9:09 amT:
“It doesn’t matter if we are in Iraq the Civil War is still going on what are our troops really accomplishing in Iraq? Lets bring them home and protect our borders”
Hiding your head is the sand won’t protect our borders. And running away from a fight is not what America is all about.
America needs to be wherever the terrorists are. And right now, that’s the Horn of Africa, Afghanistan and Iraq.
And in case you haven’t read the NY Times story, or Michael Yon or Pat Dollard lately, the surge is working. We’re not interested in snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. That’s the defeatist way. Not ours.
You must be new here.
August 1st, 2007 at 9:25 amIn Iraq we are no longer perceived as the occupiers,only to anti government anti democracy insurgents like the Mahdi Army.They have their own designs on Iraq that would really be bad for the people. AQ is the enemy, our soldiers are members of the al Amerika tribe and included and excepted in the brotherhood of tribes fighting AQ in Iraq. I knew when Iraqi’s realized what we are really about, they would be true allies. This has all evolved due to our remarkable young men and women who have never lost face or commitment and our brave and dependable President. All over Iraq their are millions of situations that inspire; makes me so proud to support this mission on those who would enslave the world and death is the fate of radical Islam; must suck to be a Jihadi. If you want to show your gratitude adopt a platoon and send good will packages at www.anysoldier.com
August 1st, 2007 at 11:41 amFor T: Go to www.mnf.com and learn something more then what Harry Reid is telling you.
Correct link for above post:
http://www.mnf-iraq.com/
Peace,
August 1st, 2007 at 4:28 pmDan