Seventeen people killed in Baghdad blast, including four Westerners

More soon.

From the crawl on the BBC website.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/default.stm

Seventeen people, including 13 Iraqis and four Westerners, have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in central Baghdad, police say.

More than 33 were injured in the explosion targeting an armoured convoy used by Western contractors in Tahrir Square - a busy shopping area.

Police said they believed four bodies taken from a charred vehicle were those of American security contractors.

The attack came hours before a reported deal to complete the new Iraqi cabinet.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4524617.stm

What time is the Barbecue?


"BRING EM ON" shouted the AWOL CHIMPANZEE


I'll have my steak medium rare", he continued.

they haven't finished building the US Embassy yet.

Silly me.

Frog March junior to the Hague along with his crime family.

Can you imagine living like this? These poor people must be all Current Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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Iraqi men react at the scene of a powerful car bomb explosion in Baghdad May 7, 2005. A car bomb exploded at a busy intersection in central Baghdad on Saturday as a foreign security convoy drove past, killing 13 Iraqis and four foreigners, police said. Photo by Akram Saleh/Reuters

to start throwing those flowers at the US soldiers who have "liberated" them from terror. Our kind of terror is sooooooo much better than Saddam's kind of terror.

Sickening.

I know we will never know, but I wish we had some way of knowing how many people Saddam killed versus how many have been killed since the invasion. Somehow I think in 2 years we are probably coming close to Saddams record. I can't believe that under Saddam that ordinary run of the mill people just going about their daily business were in as much danger as they are now.

illegal invasion began in which ordinary Iraqis were interviewed in public places. There were photos of women in hair salons, people in restaurants, passers-by on the streets. No one could believe the chimp would be stupid enough to do it, and no one was welcoming it. Now these same people, if they aren't already dead or maimed, are probably terrified to leave their houses. Imagine the feeling of dreading an ordinary trip to the market because there's a good chance you wouldn't survive to tell about it. That's the Iraq we've created.

From bartcop:

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are really witty. b-bye, moron.

shouldn't you be down enlisting? Or are you a chickenhawk?

been killed in Iraq now? Are they "doing body counts"?

Not to mention the 100,000 plus other human beings from Iraq and other countries?

With this being a market and being reported that two explosions occurred at each end of the market would lend me to believe these were planted bombs and remote triggered as a rebel just waited, looking from a vantage point, for a convoy to pass into the trap.

I haven't been to Iraq but I imagine the city is very crowded with terrible traffic as I know all countries in SE Asia are. Traffic is so bad with double/triple parked vehicles all over they place, I very much doubt two suicide bombers could somehow get info that a "speeding" convoy was approaching, the bombers know the route taken, can get into place in a crowded market...

Anyone left who can use their own brains?


Two suicide car bombs exploded in a central Baghdad square Saturday, killing 22 people, including two American contract workers, as Iraqi political leaders agreed on candidates for the remaining five Cabinet vacancies.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/iraq

I could think of a few reasons to push the suicide bomber angle as propaganda:
- the 'otherliness' of it (only irrational people would do that, so it must be purposeless).
- the 'scarcity' of it (at this rate they will run out of volunteers and all will be peaceful).

On the other hand, a cause that can attract suicide bombers can attract an awfully high level of commitment, and that is hard to defeat.

would lead them to the family to actually see who's missing? Why don't we ever hear about the suicide bombers after the intial published report? Nothing about type of explosives, nothing about dental records, nothing about jewelry, nothing about about nothing except "suicide bomber".

American's watch a decade of TV in a lifetime. So shouldn't they be good as investigators after watching all those cop/murder shows?

to take down their country, in order to get the infidels out.

The poster up above mentioned the US Embassy in Baghdad, of which Negroponte "Dr. Death" was going to be the Ambassador. I've read articles which say it's going to cost $3 billion and will house 3,000 employees, the world's biggest embassy.

It will also be the world's most embattled embassy. It will be like a fortress: with about a mile of pavement around it, surrounded by barbed wire and booby traps, bombs pointing at the entrace.

Just imagine that.

When will they EVER learn that if a population doesn't want you there, you will NEVER be able to succeed. Never. NO amount of money spent can overcome it. There is no number of bombs that can get rid of the opposition. Oh, they can wipe out a city. Take it off the face of the map. But....there will always be another village, with more hateful villagers....willing to.....