Winks Blog

21 Killed

Good morning,

As expected, the slaughter and bloodshed continues in Iraq. Insurgents and martyrs continue to kill people aimed to wreck havoc on a new constitutional referendum next week. A total of 21 people were killed, including one American soilder today (so far). A man wearing an explosives belt hopped up on a mini bus carrying 14 people including students, workers and policemen who were headed to the police academy. He pulled the switch on himself just as the bus passed a police patrol, leaving nothing but a burned out bus hull. The other attack came in the form of a martyr car bomber who drove his car near a convoy of private security contractors. He managed to kill 3 bystanders and wound 6 others. In northern Baghdad a roadside bomb blew up an American patrolman.

What will prevent the new referendum from passing will be a "No" vote from the minority Sunni constituency which represents aprox. 20% of the Iraq population. Should they achieve a 2/3's majority "no" vote in any three of Iraq's 18 provences, the constitution will go back to the drawing board, and only an interum council will be voted on. Should the referendum pass with a yes vote, a new full term parliment will be voted on in December.

While we are waiting for the vote, I'll continue to report the deaths. So far a total of 292 people have been killed by insurgents in the past 11 days.

American deaths have risen to 1,945 since the US first attacked Iraq.

Have a nice day.

posted by Wink @ 11:35 AM