At Least 130 Die as Blast Levels Baghdad Market

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/world/middleeast/04iraq.html?hp&ex=1170565200&en=59fcaa94aad23546&ei=5094&partner=homepage

BAGHDAD, Sunday, Feb. 4 — A mammoth truck bomb obliterated a popular central Baghdad market on Saturday, ripping through scores of shops and flattening apartment buildings, killing at least 130 people and wounding more than 300 in the worst of a series of horrific attacks against Shiites in recent weeks.

The attack was the work of a suicide bomber who detonated about one ton of explosives in the bustling Sadriya market, in a largely Shiite enclave at 5 p.m., as shoppers finished buying food for dinner and men sipped coffee at cafes nearby, the police said. It was the deadliest single bomb blast since the United States invasion almost four years ago.

The bombing, the fourth major attack against a densely populated Shiite area in less than three weeks, seemed sure to inflame Shiite political and militia leaders just as more than 20,000 American troops begin to arrive in an attempt to stop the civil war that threatens to tear Iraq apart.

The unrelenting killing of Shiites also promises to put more pressure on Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, who finds himself squeezed between American demands to crack down on Shiite militias and his fellow Shiites’ increasing belief that the militias are their best defense against Sunni insurgents.

American commanders say that in recent weeks, as Mr. Maliki has tried to show he is supporting the current plan to secure Baghdad, top Shiite government officials have meddled less in the Americans’ efforts to pursue militia leaders.

They are going to stop and inspect every single vehicle in all of Iraq or even in all of Baghdad? The only thing more troops will accomplish is more targets.

ALL IS WELL!!!! No one will buy fruits OR VEGGIES w/o the label.



Then all will be well..............................................

Cut the funding and Impeach the bastard! BEFORE he attacks Iran!
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