Suicide bombs kill at least 25 Iraqis

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5520498

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb attack on a police station in the Iraqi town of Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, has killed 14 Iraqis and wounded at least 13, hospital officials say. The officials said it was not yet known how many of the dead were police.

Another suicide car bomb attack on police gathered outside a hospital in the city of Mosul killed at least 11 Iraqis on Monday, police said.

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[Fire Bush]

1. What happened?

I thought the elections were supposed to take care of all that.

[sonicx]

2. don't these folks realize there was an election?

They're suppose to stop! :eyes:

[Rockerdem]

3. What a fricking mess

I hope the neocons are happy today again after bloating during the Super Bore.

[Hissyspit]

4. WP: In Iraq, At Least 30 Killed In Two Bomb Attacks (Mosul)

This article adds Mosul attack to previously reported Baqubah attack...

washingtonpost.com
In Iraq, at Least 30 Killed in Two Bomb Attacks

By Miriam Fam
Associated Press
Monday, February 7, 2005; 6:19 AM

Insurgents struck at Iraqi police forces with a suicide bomb, a car bomb and mortars in the cities of Mosul and Baqubah on Monday, killing at least 30 people as they pressed their campaign to undermine the nation's fledgling security forces.

The deadliest attack came in Baqubah, where a car bomb exploded outside the gates of a provincial police headquarters, killing 15 people and wounding 17, police Col. Mudhahar Jubouri said. Many of the victims were there to seek jobs as policemen, Jubouri said.

In the northern city of Mosul, a suicide bomber blew himself up inside the compound of Jumhouri Teaching Hospital, killing 12 policemen guarding the site and injuring four others, hospital officials said.

The bomb went off outside the hospital building, hospital Director Tahseen Ali Mahmoud Obeidi said. Witnesses said the bomber called the police officers over to him and then blew up among the crowd.

"I heard an explosion. When I went to check, I saw bodies everywhere," Obeidi said.

The ground was soaked with blood. Nurses collected body parts, putting them in bags.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4045-2005Feb7.html?referrer=email

[LibDemAlways]

5. Wait a minute.

Yesterday MSRNC reported that the "insurgency" was weakening after the "election." You mean they lied?

[NNN0LHI]

7. Almost seems like these "death squads" can turn it on and off at will?

Wonder how long it takes the Iraqis to notice the similarities to some of Negropontes past work in Latin America?

Don

[jmcgowanjm]

8. And notice the "hospital" angle

A US military spokesman said: "You can call it an
insurgent hospital from what we found there. They probably
just went in and took it over. There are a lot of things to
be answered.

The words "seized" "occupied" "hospital" should
never be used in the same sentence, along w/
the word "US". Google and see what comes up.

We have no idea how infuriated Iraqis
are by this.

Wednesday 02 February 2005, 14:19 Makka Time, 11:19
GMT
Note by al-Jazeera: When Baghdad was occupied on 9
April 2003, the last Iraqi ambassador of Saddam
Hussein's government to the UN, Muhammad al-Duri,
declared that the game was over.

A journalist, university professor and statesman who served
as an Iraqi delegate to the UN from 1999 to 2003, he left Iraq
in 1999 to act as Iraq's ambassador to the UN in
Geneva, Switzerland, before he was moved to New York
where he remained until he resigned after the occupation of
Iraq.


MD: You have to choose either bread with dignity or
bread without dignity. Why should we wait? What does Iraq
need
from the US?

It is a country rich in resources, located in a strategic
position, and with a highly educated people. If the US
really wants to help, there are dozens of poor and
undeveloped countries out there, let it help them instead
of helping a country which possesses the world's
second largest oil reserve and which has achieved high rates
of development before it occupied
it.

[slackmaster]

6. Way to win peoples' hearts and minds

:argh:

[tabasco]

9. But the republicans waved their purple fingers !

Didn't the insurgents see that !?!

Somebody shoot off a memo to the Iraqi insurgents that they are supposed to be in flower-throwing mode !

[Rose Siding]

10. Al Qaeda Claims both, says Reuters

Al Qaeda's wing in Iraq (news - web sites), led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, claimed responsibility for both blasts and vowed further attacks on "apostates and their masters," an apparent reference to U.S.-led forces and the Iraqis who work with them.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&ncid=721&e=1&u=/nm/20050207/wl_nm/iraq_dc