Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Bomb strikes Shiite market in Baghdad, killing 69


The Ultimate BrutalityBAGHDAD – A bomb ripped through a crowded market in Baghdad's main Shiite district on Wednesday, killing at least 69 people and wounding more than 100 less than a week before a deadline for U.S. combat troops to leave Iraq's urban areas.
An Interior Ministry official said 69 people were killed and 135 wounded, while police and hospital officials in Sadr City put the death toll at 72.

http://newsIraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has said the recent wave of attacks in the country were isolated incidents which did not threaten overall security improvement, and would not delay the withdrawal of American forces.

At least 150 people were killed in just two days of suicide bomb attacks at the end of last week.

But Mr Maliki, in an exclusive BBC interview, said his government at the moment had no intention of taking up an American offer to keep troops in some Iraqi cities beyond the end of June, when they are supposed to leave.
www.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090624/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8020815.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/world/middleeast/25iraq.html?hp

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