Thursday: 101 Iraqis, 2 GIs Killed; 81 Iraqis Wounded

At least 101 Iraqis were killed or found dead today and 81 more were injured in violent events that included a car bombing at a funeral in Fallujah. Also, two U.S. soldiers were killed in combat in Anbar province. U.S. troop deaths for May have been averaging almost four servicemembers per day, making it one of the bloodiest months of the war.

In Baghdad, gunmen at a fake checkpoint stopped a minibus and killed all 11 passengers; a bomb hidden among the bodies then killed two civilians and wounded six others. In the Iskan district, a suicide car bomb killed one Iraqi soldier and injured two at a checkpoint. One person was killed and five wounded when a suicide bomber blew up his vest on a minibus in the Shaab district. In al-Hurriyah, U.S. soldiers firing in response to striking a roadside bomb killed one civilian and injured a second. One person was killed and three were wounded during a mortar attack in Abu Atsheer. Also, 22 bodies were found in the capital.

A roadside bomb killed two day laborers and wounded 15 in Sadr City.

The funeral procession for MP Ibrahim Allawi al-Isawi from the Sunni Iraqi Islamic Party was interrupted by a car bomb that killed at least 35 attendees and injured 36 more. Mortars also fell on a U.S. base.

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http://www.antiwar.com/updates/?articleid=11017

So that's like 3 Virginia Techs in one day, and yet as far as I know it has not been on the news every second since it happened.

And thanks for mentioning the Iraqis. The posts just mentioning a couple American soldiers getting killed like no one else matters make me sick. I know that's probably not the intention but it still bothers me.