2 explosions in Baghdad kill 15

Source: Associated Press

2 explosions in Baghdad kill 15

By SINAN SALAHEDDIN, Associated Press Writer
19 minutes ago

BAGHDAD - Two explosions rocked Baghdad at midday Wednesday,
killing at least 15 people and wounding 19, police said.

-snip-

Violence continued to rage Wednesday, with mortar attacks and
roadside bombings across the country.

In one of the Baghdad attacks, a parked car exploded near a
private hospital in the central neighborhood of Karradah —
killing 11 people and wounding 13, police said. The blast
damaged the Abdul-Majid hospital and other nearby buildings.

The second explosion was from a bomb left on a minibus in the
northwestern Risafi area, killing four people and wounding
six others, police said.

-snip-


Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070418/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

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Source: Reuters

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, April 18
18 Apr 2007 10:25:43 GMT
Source: Reuters

April 18 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1000 GMT
on Wednesday:

* denotes new or updated item.

* BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed 10 people and wounded 15 in the predominantly
Shi'ite district of Karrada in central Baghdad, police said.

* BAGDHAD - A bomb inside a minibus killed two people and wounded five near
al-Shurja in central Baghdad, police said.

* BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomb targeting a police patrol killed two policemen
and wounded four, including two civilians, near Baghdad, police said.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L18184964.htm

Source: Associated Press

3 Bombings Kill 25 in Iraq


Wednesday April 18, 2007 12:46 PM

By SINAN SALAHEDDIN

Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD (AP) - Three separate explosions rocked Baghdad on Wednesday,
killing at least 25 people and wounding dozens of others, police said.

A suicide bomber crashed into an Iraqi police checkpoint at an entrance
to the Sadr City neighborhood - the Iraqi capital's largest Shiite slum
- killing 10 people and wounding 15, police said.

Elsewhere, a parked car exploded near a private hospital in the central
neighborhood of Karradah - killing 11 people and wounding 13, police said.
The blast damaged the Abdul-Majid hospital and other nearby buildings.

The third explosion was from a bomb left on a minibus in the northwestern
Risafi area, killing four people and wounding six others, police said.


Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6567302,00.html

DEATH TOLL FROM CAR BOMB IN BAGHDAD'S SADR CITY RISES TO 20 - PO
18 Apr 2007 11:58:36 GMT
Source: Reuters
DEATH TOLL FROM CAR BOMB IN BAGHDAD'S SADR CITY RISES TO 20 - POLICE

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L18320609.htm

DEATH TOLL FROM CAR BOMB IN BAGHDAD'S SADR CITY RISES TO 30 - PO
18 Apr 2007 12:21:10 GMT
Source: Reuters

DEATH TOLL FROM CAR BOMB IN BAGHDAD'S SADR CITY RISES TO 30 - POLICE

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L18338358.htm

It just seems like there's nothing left to be thought or said about the daily horrendous death toll in Iraq, which hasn't been said over and over.

I read these fatality/body count posts every day and get the same sick feeling of horror and helplessness. And sometimes I'm confused as to whether the post is about the same deaths reported the day before or yet another 15 people killed.

I thought as I watched a video with a series of pictures of the people shot at Va Tech, that the media should be doing this for the deaths in Iraq/Afghanistan. Of course, those countries are in such chaos that photos from high school yearbooks, family members or the like, and comments from grieving friends, are not available, and there are no functioning press outlets to gather and disseminate such information. "He was a gentle man who loved to take his grandchildren out for ice cream, or to the zoo." "She is mourned by her loving husband, 3 children and 4 grandchildren."

"Everything is just peachy out here on this beautiful golf course, where
me and my republicon cronies are discussing our Massive Profits from
oil and munitions. Oh yeah, too bad about your kids in uniform, and the Eye-rakis
and all that stuff."

- Commander AWOL

Reuters witness says dozens dead in new Baghdad blast
18 Apr 2007 12:46:04 GMT

BAGHDAD, April 18 (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded in Baghdad's central Sadriya neighbourhood on Wednesday and a Reuters photographer at the scene said there were dozens of bodies, including many women and children.

Earlier, a car bomb in Baghdad's Shi'ite stronghold of Sadr City killed 30 people. At least five car bombs exploded in Baghad on Wednesday, hours after Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said his forces will take over security from U.S.-led forces by end-2007.


http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L18560515.htm

Wednesday, April 18
BAGHDAD (AP) - Four separate explosions rocked Baghdad on Wednesday — including a suicide attack in the Shiite militia stronghold of Sadr City — killing at least 61 people as violence climbed toward levels seen before a U.S.-led surge to pacify the capital.
Meanwhile, U.S. troops killed five suspects and captured 30 others in a raid in Iraq's western Anbar province, a day after police uncovered 17 decomposing corpses beneath two school yards in the provincial capital.

The U.S. military also announced a discovery made nearly a week earlier — 3,000 gallons of nitric acid hidden in a warehouse in downtown Baghdad. U.S. forces found the acid — a key component in fertilizer but also explosives — during a routine search operation last Thursday, the military said.

Iraqi troops took charge of security Wednesday in the southern province of Maysan, a region that borders Iran and the fourth province to come under full Iraqi security control since the 2003 U.S. invasion.

more:http://www.berkshireeagle.com/ci_5691925

Source: Associated Press

4 bombs kill 66, wound dozens in Baghdad

By SINAN SALAHEDDIN, Associated Press Writer
9 minutes ago

BAGHDAD - Four big bombs exploded across Baghdad on Wednesday,
killing at least 66 people and wounding nearly 150 as violence climbed
toward levels seen before the U.S.-Iraqi campaign to pacify the capital
began two months ago.

-snip-

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070418/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L18140329.htm

:cry:

4 bombs kill 127 people in Baghdad By SINAN SALAHEDDIN, Associated Press Writer
6 minutes ago



BAGHDAD - Four large bombs exploded across Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 127 people and wounding scores as violence climbed toward levels seen before the U.S.-Iraqi campaign to pacify the capital began two months ago.

In the deadliest of the attacks, a parked car bomb detonated in a crowd of workers at the Sadriyah market in a mostly Shiite area of central Baghdad, killing at least 82 people and wounding 94, said Raad Muhsin, an official at Al-Kindi Hospital where the victims were taken.

A police official confirmed the toll, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.

Several cars were set afire at the market, where a car bombing in February killed 137 people.

About an hour earlier, a suicide car bomber crashed into an Iraqi police checkpoint at an entrance to Sadr City, the capital's biggest Shiite Muslim neighborhood and a stronghold for the militia led by radical anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070418/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_070418122738

More Than 150 Dead In 4 Baghdad Blasts

BAGHDAD, April 18, 2007
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(CBS/AP) A parked car bomb detonated in a crowd of workers at a Shiite marketplace in Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 112 people, police and hospital officials said.

At least 94 others were wounded in the blast, said Raad Muhsin, an official at Al-Kindi Hospital where the victims were taken. A police official confirmed the toll, on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.

The attack was one of four bombings in Baghdad on Wednesday afternoon, which killed more than 157 people in total, officials said.

In another Baghdad attacks, about an hour earlier, a suicide car bomber crashed into an Iraqi police checkpoint at an entrance to Sadr City, the capital's biggest Shiite Muslim neighborhood and a stronghold for the militia led by radical anti-U.S. cleric Muqtade al-Sadr.

That explosion killed at least 30 people, including five Iraqi security officers, and wounded 45, police said.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/18/iraq/printable2697982.shtml

Source: Associated Press

4 bombings kill 157 people in Baghdad

By SINAN SALAHEDDIN, Associated Press Writer
15 minutes ago

BAGHDAD - Four large bombs exploded in mostly Shiite areas of Baghdad
on Wednesday, killing at least 157 people and wounding scores as violence
climbed toward levels seen before the U.S.-Iraqi campaign to pacify the
capital began two months ago.

In the deadliest of the attacks, a parked car bomb detonated in a crowd
of workers at the Sadriyah market in central Baghdad, killing at least 112
people and wounding 115, said Raad Muhsin, an official at Al-Kindi Hospital
where the victims were taken.

-snip-

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070418/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

Car bombs kill 170 in Baghdad after PM's pledge
18 Apr 2007 14:32:15 GMT
Source: Reuters

By Dean Yates and Paul Tait

BAGHDAD, April 18 (Reuters) - Car bombs killed nearly 170 people in Baghdad on Wednesday in the deadliest attacks in the city since U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a security crackdown aimed at halting the country's slide into civil war.

One car bomb alone in the mainly Shi'ite Sadriya neighbourhood killed 118 people and wounded 139, police said.

The apparently coordinated attacks -- there were five within a short space of time -- occurred hours after Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said Iraq would take security control of the whole country from foreign forces by the end of the year.

More than 200 people were wounded in total.

more:http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L18255866.htm

but, no matter how loud I do it, they won't hear, and they won't listen.

what a sick, sad week, and it is not half over yet.

I swear, If I see King Ge-ogre's face on the tube, I better not be holding anything that can be thrown. I don't want to spend money on a new one.