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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide car bomber sped up to American soldiers distributing candy to children and detonated his explosives Wednesday, killing up to 27 other people, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. One U.S. soldier and about a dozen children were among the dead.
At least 21 others, including three U.S. soldiers, were wounded in the attack, the second major suicide bombing in Baghdad this week. A suicide attacker killed 25 people Sunday at an Iraqi army recruiting center.
The fireball from Wednesday's blast also set a nearby house ablaze, the U.S. military said. The attack stunned the impoverished east Baghdad neighborhood of mostly Shiite Muslims and Christians.
At Kindi hospital, where many of the dead and injured were taken, one distraught woman swathed in black sat cross-legged outside the operating room. "May God curse the mujahedeen and their leader," she cried as she pounded her own head in grief.
Hospitals and police said between 11 and 13 children were killed. Authorities scrambled to compile a count of the dead and injured.
"The explosion was mainly on the children," resident Abbas Ali Jassim said.
A U.S. soldier assigned to Task Force Baghdad also was killed, the military said. At least 1,759 members of the U.S. military have died since the Iraq war started in March 2003.
The vehicle used in the attack was a brown Toyota Land Cruiser with a license plate from the southern city of Basra, police said.
Originally posted by deltaboy
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At Kindi hospital, where many of the dead and injured were taken, one distraught woman swathed in black sat cross-legged outside the operating room. "May God curse the mujahedeen and their leader," she cried as she pounded her own head in grief.
Hospitals and police said between 11 and 13 children were killed. Authorities scrambled to compile a count of the dead and injured.
"The explosion was mainly on the children," resident Abbas Ali Jassim said.
Its amazing that with all of this anti-insurgent idealism in the Iraqi people that more citizens are not making every effort to turn them in. The groups live in villages and towns with other law abiding people, but the normal citizens turn a blind eye to the foriegn strangers.
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A suicide car bomb exploded next to U.S. troops handing out candy and toys,
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"There were some American troops blocking the highway when a U.S. Humvee came near a gathering of children," said Karim Shukir, 42. The troops began handing out candy and smiley-face key chains.
"Suddenly, a speeding car bomb...struck both the Humvee and the children," Shukir said.
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An elderly woman dressed in black beat her chest in front of her house
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At least 983 people have been killed by car bombers or suicide bombers on foot since the new government was announced on April 28,
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Early Wednesday, Iraqi security forces stormed several houses across Baghdad, detaining, torturing and killing 11 Sunni Arab men, including a cleric
Originally posted by XyZeR
Well my local dutch news reported it different.
They talk about the tactic of american soldiers handing out candy in order to get kids around them to form a human shield around them.
That's what's sickening !
edit:spelling
[edit on 14-7-2005 by XyZeR]
These scumbags only know death and suffering.
Originally posted by XyZeR
They talk about the tactic of american soldiers handing out candy in order to get kids around them to form a human shield around them.
That's what's sickening !
[edit on 14-7-2005 by XyZeR]
Originally posted by XyZeR
You accuse me off being misguided, yet you support a war
BTW: Congratulations You've won a spot on my ignore list !