Truck bomb kills more than 120 in Baghdad market

brettdale

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Sat Feb-03-07 03:43 PM
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Truck bomb kills more than 120 in Baghdad market

Truck bomb kills more than 120 in Baghdad market

http://us.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/03/iraq.main/index.html

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden truck in a crowded Baghdad market Saturday, killing at least 121 people and wounding 373 others, a Health Ministry official said.

The blast, which destroyed automobiles, erupted in Sedriya, a mixed neighborhood of Sunni Arabs, Shiites and Kurds. Two nearby buildings were destroyed and eight others were damaged in the explosion.

Jihad Jabri, head of the Interior Ministry's bomb squad, said the Mercedes truck used in the blast contained a ton of explosives.

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twilight_sailing

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Sat Feb-03-07 03:51 PM
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1. wounding 373

Good God.

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HysteryDiagnosis

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Sat Feb-03-07 04:26 PM
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2. I thought we locked up all the ammo dumps. Saddam's gonna be

po'd.

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Midlodemocrat

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Sat Feb-03-07 04:29 PM
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3. The pic on the CNN homepage is just heartbreaking.

What have we done to those people? God, it makes my skin crawl.

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TahitiNut

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Sat Feb-03-07 04:32 PM
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4. I really have to wonder how they 'know' it was a "suicide bomber".

With that amount of explosives, there'd be no way to find a body. Furthermore, who's to know whether it was triggered by the (alleged) driver or someone else by cell phone? I have to be dubious that anyone close enough to say whether or not the truck was occupied and being driven is able to say so any longer.

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