Wave Of Bombings Kill 150, Injure 570
Good afternoon.
Between dawn and about 4 pm, a wave of martyr bombers sustained a wave of more than a dozen explosions on Iraqis in and around Baghdad. A minimum of 150 were killed and 570 injured.
It was the worst single day of bloodshed since March 2, 2004, when coordinated blasts from suicide bombers, mortars and planted explosives hit Shiite Muslim shrines in Karbala and in Baghdad, killing at least 181 and wounding 573.
A senior U.S. military official said he believed the bombings were in retaliation for the joint Iraqi-U.S. sweep through Tal Afar, which has been ongoing for the last two weeks.
Al-Qaida's leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, purportedly has declared "all out war" on Shiite Muslims. Let the civil war continue.
Numbers will be adjusted as they come in. These are just preliminary figures.
posted by Wink @ 1:33 PM
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