Aladin Abdel Naby / Reuters
U.S. Army soldiers secure an area as Iraqi firefighters extinguish a fire caused by car bomb explosions in Baghdad, on Thursday.
Posted on 09/30/2004 8:25:04 AM PDT by Happy2BMe
The Associated Press
Updated: 11:08 a.m. ET Sept. 30, 2004
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Bombs exploded near a U.S. convoy in western Baghdad on Thursday, killing 35 children and seven adults, a hospital official said. Hours earlier, a suicide car bomb killed a U.S. soldier and two Iraqis on the capital’s outskirts.
The bombs in Baghdad’s al-Amel neighborhood caused the largest death toll of children in any insurgent attack since the conflict began 17 months ago.
It was unclear if the bombs — which also wounded 141 people, including 10 U.S. soldiers — targeted the convoy or a ceremony marking the opening of a new sewage system that was taking place at the same time.
The day of violence, including insurgent attacks and U.S. airstrikes in Fallujah, left a total of 46 Iraqis dead and 208 wounded.
A U.S. helicopter evacuated some of the wounded while other aircraft circled overhead. U.S. forces sealed off the area.
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Aladin Abdel Naby / Reuters
U.S. Army soldiers secure an area as Iraqi firefighters extinguish a fire caused by car bomb explosions in Baghdad, on Thursday.
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There were conflicting accounts about what caused the blast. Military spokeswoman Capt. Angela Bowman said it was a car bomb, but police in nearby Mosul said it was a device planted in the road.
Also Thursday, the Arab news network Al-Jazeera showed video of 10 new hostages seized in Iraq by militants. Al-Jazeera said the 10 — six Iraqis, two Lebanese and two Indonesian women — were taken by The Islamic Army in Iraq.
A Lebanese official later said kidnappers had released one Lebanese captive, although it was not clear if he was among the 10.
they're muslims. they got a jihad against children. i think they're afraid the children are going to get all the virgins or something.
Now the Muhammadans are killing Muhammadan children. This level of blood lust all comes from Muhammed's "examples" as narrated in Koran and Hadith. Are they trying to compete with the Aztecs?
sonsabitches.
As I've said countless times, when there are monsters in a country killing children in that country, what this proves is that we're not allowed to have our soldiers there, we should pull our soldiers out, and let the monsters assume control of that country /sarcasm
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In two other attacks, a suicide bomber blew up his vehicle near a U.S. checkpoint outside the capital, killing two policemen and a U.S. soldier, and a car bomb killed four people in the restive northern Iraq (news - web sites) town of Tal Afar.
The Baghdad blasts coincided with crowds gathering to celebrate the opening of a new sewage plant. It was not clear if the event or a U.S. convoy passing nearby was the target.
The first explosion was followed by two more that struck those who rushed to the aid of the initial victims.
Ten U.S. soldiers were wounded in the attack, two of them seriously, the military said. Iraq's Health ministry confirmed 41 dead and 139 wounded, the vast majority children.
Instability is steadily mounting just weeks before the U.S. presidential election in November and four months before Iraq is due to hold its own nationwide polls. Attacks on American troops have risen to around 80 a day from 40 a month ago.
Doctors at Yarmouk hospital struggled to treat the flood of victims, as pools of blood formed on the floor.
One boy lay swathed in bandages on a stretcher, his severed leg on a table beside him. Others were scarred by shrapnel, their clothes blown off by the force of the explosion.
The attack gouged a crater in the road and wrecked a dozen burned-out cars and a bus. U.S. troops sealed off the area with tanks, and helicopters circled overhead.
POLICE AND SOLDIERS DEAD
Hours earlier, a suicide bomber had killed two Iraqi police and a U.S. soldier by blowing up his car near a U.S. checkpoint at a crowded intersection in Abu Ghraib, just west of Baghdad. Around 60 people, including women and children, were wounded.
Another soldier was killed when a rocket hit a U.S. logistics base near Baghdad. The confirmed deaths of the two soldiers raised to at least 802 the number of U.S. troops killed in action since the start of the war.
In northern Iraq, another car bomb blew up near an Iraqi police convoy in the center of Tal Afar, a rebellious town close to the Syrian border. Hospital officials said four civilians had been killed and 16 wounded. Four policemen were also hurt.
In rebel-held Falluja, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad, U.S. forces destroyed a building they said was being used by fighters loyal to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, whose group is threatening to behead a British hostage.
The strike was the latest in a series of almost daily attacks in Falluja intended to crush Zarqawi's network, which has claimed responsibility for many of Iraq's bloodiest suicide bombings and the killings of foreign captives.
Zarqawi's group beheaded Americans Eugene Armstrong and Jack Hensley this month after U.S. forces and the Iraqi government refused to release women prisoners.
Imagine what Muhammad could have accomplished in his lifetime if only he has access to dynamite and C4.
Lets keep the fight in Bahgdad and Afghanistan and out of the school yards of America. Only George W. Bush can make that a reality.
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U.S. soldiers tend to their injured colleagues as another victim lies on the ground after a bomb exploded in Baghdad, September 30, 2004. Insurgents detonated three car bombs near a U.S. military convoy in Baghdad, killing 41 people, 34 of them children, and wounding scores. |
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A recent Knight Ridder article claimed most civiliam deaths are caused by oalition forces. I say that's pro-insurgent BS. Anyone have a tally?
As long as we fight this war in a selective and restrained manner this will continue until we leave.
| Local residents survey the destruction after two car bombs and a roadside bomb went off in succession in the al-Amel neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites), Thursday, Sept. 30, 2004. At least 41 were killed, most of them children and over 200 were wounded in the attack. |
If Kerry tries to expolit this in tonite's debate, he will have crawled in bed with these Islamic terrorists.
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| A boy picks up the damaged bicycle of his dead brother from the site after two car bombs and a roadside bomb went off in succession in the al-Amel neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites), Thursday, Sept. 30, 2004. At least 41 were killed, most of them children and over 200 were wounded in the attack. |
All of the world's leaders need to come together, call the terrorists for what they are - pure evil - and methodically wipe them off the face of the earth.
At the same time insist on proper schools for all third world children - eliminate taught racism and hatred in 2 or 3 generations.
This is WW III - It's us or them - buckle up!
There's a problem in counting because a lot of the terrorists become "civilians" after death when their weapons are taken from them.
One story from a few months ago was a US sniper shot an Iraqi who had a machine gun. An ambulance drove up, someone got out and tried to "rescue" the machine gun. He didn't make it either.
If the UN was doing the counting they would say the first dead was a civilian because he was no longer armed. And of course the second was a case of the US shooting a medic.
They TARGET children, the Muhammadan pigs...
A recent Knight Ridder article claimed most civiliam deaths are caused by oalition forces. I say that's pro-insurgent terrorist BS. Anyone have a tally?
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Did they abhor it?
Did they condemn the bombers who hit the kids when US troops were handing out candy?
Because they always were and will always be, America and Bush Haters foremost, over any kind of love, real or feigned, toward Iraqis themselves.
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