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27 Iraqis killed, 12 children

Good morning.

As American soldiers were handing out candy to Iraqi children from their Humvee, a martyr bomber bolted his bomb laden car into the scene and ended up killing one US troop and 12 children. A total of 27 people in that incident died, and another 21 wounded. Residents in this extremely impovershed E. Baghdad neighborhood were stunned.

The last major bombing of children occured last Sept. when 35 children died as they were being handed candy from American Troops at a government sponsored new sewer plant inguration in West Baghdad. In that attack, Iraqis blamed the US military for attracting insurgents to the ceremony.

To do a little catching up here, last Sunday, 25 people were killed as another martyr car bomber drove his bomb on wheels into a crowd at an Iraqi army recruitment center.

Last Wednesday a 7 year old was killed and a woman badly injured because of a roadside bomb.

The death count in London rose to 52 as they continued to assemble body parts.

Here is the latest count:
Since April 28th, aprox. 1,600 in Iraq have been killed by insurgents.
52 in London have been killed by insurgents.
O in America have been killed by insurgents.

That's it for now, more news at 11.

posted by Wink @ 9:45 AM