Deadly day in Iraq leaves 109 dead

[ProSense]

Deadly day in Iraq leaves 109 dead

By KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writer
46 minutes ago

BAGHDAD, Iraq - An explosion outside a Baghdad university as students were heading home for the day killed at least 65 people on Tuesday, in the deadliest of several attacks on predominantly Shiite areas. The attack came on a day the United Nations said more than 34,000 Iraqi civilians died last year in sectarian violence.

Attacks in Baghdad — the university explosion, blasts at a marketplace for used motorcycles and a drive-by shooting — came as at least 109 people were killed or found dead nationwide in what appeared to be a final spasm of violence ahead of an imminent security operation by the Iraqi government and U.S. forces to secure the capital.

The violence also came a day after the Iraqi government hanged two of Saddam Hussein's henchmen in an execution that left many of the ousted leader's fellow Sunni Muslims seething after one of the accused, the ousted leader's half brother, was decapitated on the gallows.

Cabinet ministers and legislators loyal to the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr were instructed to end their six-week boycott of the political process, a parliamentarian in the political bloc said Tuesday, indicating that the decision was linked to the new security drive.

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[Phredicles]

1. So why aren't those darn Iraqis more grateful to us?

I mean, what about all the one's who haven't died (at least not yet)? Huh?

[Doctor_J]

2. Just exhuberant celebration to smirk's announcment from last week

Kind of like when a school wins a title and their fans turn over cars.

:sarcasm:

[stonecoldsober]

3. Damn terrorists!!

:sarcasm:

On edit, what these people are doing are terrorist acts, but that doesn't mean they are Al-Qaeda.