British Soldier Killed in Southern Iraq, Three Explosions Rock Baghdad

Isn't that what all the wingnut pundits have been saying?

As he waited to have his Diaper Changed.

has re-emerged with a vengence. The Pentagon kept insisting it was dying, but it seems that they were retrenching. This mess will never end.

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/02/iraq.main/



The death toll keeps rising today.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050502/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb exploded in an upscale shopping district of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least six Iraqis and setting fire to an apartment building, police said, continuing a string of attacks that's left at least 123 people dead since Iraq's interim government appointed a partial Cabinet last week.


Two other bombs exploded in the capital, narrowly missing a top Iraqi security official and a U.S. patrol. In southern Iraq, a British soldier was killed in fighting, the British government said.

On Sunday, insurgents killed at least 36 Iraqis in a series of attacks, including 25 who died and more than 50 who were wounded by a car bomb that ripped through a tent packed with mourners at the funeral of a Kurdish official in the northern city of Tal Afar.

Since Thursday, when Iraq's interim government finally appointed a partial Cabinet after three months of political infighting, at least 123 people, including 11 Americans, have been killed in a slew of bombings, ambushes and other attacks.

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Three car bombs strike Baghdad, killing eight

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three car bombs exploded in Baghdad on Monday, killing at least eight people, in attacks on an Interior Ministry official, policemen and shoppers, police said.


The violence was part of a furious onslaught of car bombings in Baghdad and around the country since Iraq last week formed its first democratically elected government in 50 years.

The first bomb exploded in the Huriya district of northwest Baghdad as a small convoy of vehicles carrying Major General Fuleih Rasheed, the commander of a police commando unit linked to the Interior Ministry, was passing.

No one was killed, but Rasheed and three of his bodyguards were wounded, police said. None of the injuries were believed to be life-threatening.

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/02/iraq.main/

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Four car bombs -- which came in waves of two -- exploded in separate locations in the Iraqi capital Monday, killing 11 Iraqis and wounding 29 others, a local official said.

The bombings came a day after a suicide attack during the funeral of a Kurdish party member killed about 25 people.

An official with Baghdad's emergency police said one car bomb exploded around 10 a.m. (2 a.m. ET) Monday outside a private building in the Karada neighborhood in the south-central region of the city, killing nine Iraqi civilians and wounding 12 others.

The blast damaged shops near the attack, the official added.

Just a few minutes before that explosion, a car bomb apparently targeting an Iraqi commando convoy blew up around 9:50 a.m. in the al-Huriyah neighborhood in northwest Baghdad, wounding two Iraqi commandos, the official said.