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RedEarth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:01 PM
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233 killed in Iraq today
Edited on Wed Apr-18-07 05:03 PM by RedEarth
BAGHDAD - Suspected Sunni insurgents penetrated the Baghdad security net Wednesday, hitting Shiite targets with four bomb attacks that killed 183 people — the bloodiest day since the U.S. troop increase began nine weeks ago.

.........

Besides the market attack, bombs struck Shiite targets in the capital at a police checkpoint, near a hospital and in a small bus.

Nationwide the number of people killed or found dead was 233, which was second only to a total of 281 killed or found dead on Nov. 23, 2006. Those figures are according to AP record-keeping, which began in May 2005.

Caldwell said militants were "attempting to destroy any sense of security the people of Baghdad were beginning to feel with the security operation in Baghdad."



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070418/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;_ylt=Amnny1VdKnyc7AYJKCYyTp9I2ocA
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malta blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:03 PM
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1. My god/dess...
Please make it stop.:cry: :cry:
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wicket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:13 PM
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10. PLEASE PLEASE make it stop
Oh god :cry: :cry:
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maddezmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:03 PM
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2. there really are no words
:cry:

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ourbluenation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:03 PM
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3. welcome to the surge n/t
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NightWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:03 PM
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4. Admiral Fallon said that the US is losing more and more control everyday
He's running the show for CENTCOM and he says that it's a losing proposition. This news will get little air.
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:06 PM
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7. Have a link?
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NightWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:12 PM
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9. am looking. It was a blurb on tv news
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:04 PM
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5. Damn
People are surging to their graves in numbers.


Time to IMPEACH these are criminals Bush and Cheney.
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:05 PM
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6. Wow. Better put the city on a big fat curfew for 24 hours and get the
messes cleaned up, restore order.
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Terri S Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:09 PM
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8. ah yes..another fine day to go strolling around Bagdad!
yes... here are more of those 'signs' that progress is being made.. dear lord. Let's see if any of this makes its way into the 24/7 coverage of the VA Tech killings.. wanna take any bets?
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partylessinOhio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:19 PM
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11. As long as there were no aborted fetuses, it is ok with the Fristians who
support war for profit and forced births for warriors.
:cry:
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:30 PM
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12. K&R.
Astonishingly shocking.
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PA Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:34 PM
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13. So how much coverage will THIS story get on the news today?
People dying in Iraq? That is SO yesterday. :mad:
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Dukkha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:45 PM
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15. more than seven times the amount killed at VT
and it's buried in an AP news wire. Sorry you're yesterday's news and no longer matter to us.
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AzDar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 05:39 PM
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14. George W. Bush is a war criminal. n/t
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Marrah_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 06:00 PM
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16. There arent even words to describe my feelings on this ... n/t
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