Sunday, November 12, 2006

Another great day of progress

Just another day in the Neo-Con wonderland:

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Two suicide bombers strapped with explosives killed at least 35 Iraqis and wounded 60 more Sunday outside the national police headquarters in western Baghdad, an emergency police official said.

The victims were among dozens waiting to join the police force outside the recruitment center in the Qadessiya district when the suicide bombers detonated their explosives belts.

At least 10 others died in four separate bombings, police said.

Four Iraqis died and 10 were wounded when a car bomb exploded near the Interior Ministry complex in central Baghdad.

Three Iraqis were killed and 15 wounded when a car bomb exploded in a crowded street south of Baghdad in Yusufiya.

Two Iraqis were killed and 15 wounded when a roadside bomb exploded on a busy street in southwestern Baghdad's Radhwaniya district.

And one Iraqi was killed and 5 wounded when a car bomb exploded near an outdoor market in central Baghdad's Karrada district.

On Saturday, gunmen killed a truck driver and kidnapped 11 Iraqis after stopping four vehicles at a fake checkpoint south of the capital, Hilla police said.

At the fake checkpoint in Latifiya, about 25 miles south of Baghdad, gunmen took the four vehicles -- three minibuses and a truck -- along with the kidnapped Iraqis.

The Iraqis -- 11 men and three women -- were driving from Diwaniya to Baghdad for shopping when they were stopped. The gunmen left the three women and kidnapped the 11 men, the official said.

In other violence Saturday, two bombs planted in an outdoor market in central Baghdad exploded around noon, killing six and wounded 32 people, a Baghdad emergency police official said.

North of the capital near Baquba, a suicide car bomb explosion killed two people at the main gate of a police station in Zaghanya town, an official said.

Gunmen shot dead an Iraqi officer with the new Iraqi intelligence system as he was walking towards his parked car in the southwestern Baghdad neighborhood of Bayaa, police said.

Two civilians were killed and four more were wounded when a roadside bomb hit a car in the eastern Baghdad neighborhood of Zayuna, police said.

Iraqi police also recovered 18 bullet-riddled bodies in various neighborhoods around the capital Friday. Police were unable to identify the bodies.


Yeah, we better keep this thing goin' on as long as possible.

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