String Of Attacks In Iraq Kills At Least 66

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Source: Associated Press

BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of Shiite pilgrims passing through a mainly Sunni neighborhood in Baghdad and another detonated his explosives inside a cafe north of the capital, the deadliest of several attacks across Iraq on Saturday that killed at least 66 people.

The killings, which also included attacks on journalists and anti-extremist Sunni fighters, are part of the deadliest surge in violence to hit Iraq in five years. The accelerating bloodshed is raising fears that the country is falling back into the spiral of violence that brought it to the edge of civil war in the years after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.

The extent of the carnage from the evening attack on the pilgrims became clearer as midnight approached, when officials sharply revised the death toll upward to at least 42. Another 80 were reported injured.

The bomber detonated his explosives at a checkpoint in the northern neighborhood of Azamiyah as the pilgrims en route to a prominent Shiite shrine in the nearby neighborhood of Kazimiyah, according to police officials. At least four policemen manning the checkpoint were among the dead, the officials said.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/10/05/evening-bomb-blasts-in-iraq-push-death-toll-to-41/2928321/

[Plucketeer]

1. There's not a DAY goes by

that I'm not provoked to a moment of pride as to how we brought the Iraquis all this democracy and freedom. They're now free to blow each other way on a daily basis! Bless the days of the purple fingers! They were obviously worth EVERY SINGLE American we sacrificed over there!

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2. Yes Freedom is on the March

President George W. Bush wrote, "Let Freedom Reign" in response to a note passed to him by Dr. Condoleezza Rice while attending the opening session of a NATO summit June 28, 2004, in Istanbul, Turkey.

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3. While the idiot son sleeps like a baby