Posted on 08/14/2007 1:25:19 PM PDT by HAL9000
AT LEAST 175 KILLED IN SUICIDE TANKER BOMBINGS IN NORTHERN IRAQ - IRAQI MILITARY SOURCE
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“At least 175 people have been killed in a series of suicide bomb attacks in northern Iraq, Iraq’s military says.”
Even if it turns out 30 dead Reuters and now the BBC can claim they got their info from “Iraq’s military” without giving out whom in the Iraqi Military gave them the info.
Death toll soars to 175 in Iraq suicide bombings
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20250066/
MSNBC repeating
When I saw 175 people killed in a neighborhood in Northern Iraq, I immediately had two questions come to mind.
1. How did a bomb kill 175 people in a neighborhood? Houses are too far apart for single blast, or even three for that matter, to kill so many. A market place maybe, but a neighborhood? I DON’T KNOW.
2. It seems too convenient that the number killed is 175 and 200 wounded. Why 175? It just smells fishy.
I could be wrong.
CNN
Dozens killed in suicide attacks in Iraq
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/08/14/iraq.main/index.html
“Three bombers detonated three trucks laden with explosives in three locations around 8 p.m., officials said.”
Kind of strange since Reuters reported this over 9 hours ago according to their own website but it’s 1:36 am now in Baghdad.
A few hours after an attack the mayor of a town get's to read Kurdish intelligence reports!!?? Even more so the area of the attack wasn't in Kurdish territory. This sounds like BS.
He’s police and not military.
Yep, that's what it says.
Iraqi army Captain Mohammad al-Jaad said at least another 200 people were wounded in the bombings in separate Yazidi neighbourhoods in the town of Kahtaniya, west of Mosul.”
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/latest/200708150900/at_least_175_killed_in_iraq_bombings
Multiple sources are being cited in the various reports. We may never know the exact death toll. It’s likely that many of the bodies are not intact. And the Muslim custom is to bury their dead immediately, so many of the bodies may not be taken to a morgue to be counted.
Well I’m not familiar with Yazidi funeral traditions, but the victims weren’t Muslims, but as already said Yazidis, an ancient pre-Islamic religion.
Of course we’ll never really know just like we never really know about all these bodies dumped every morning in Baghdad that no one ever sees.
US military sources are saying they don’t believe anywhere near 175 were killed although they do confirm that the 30 known killed will likely increase.
Just heard on Fox News that the military is putting the death toll at 60.
(Reuters (Alternet) BAGHDAD, Aug 14 (Reuters) - At least 175 people were killed when three suicide bombers driving fuel tankers attacked a town, home to an ancient minority sect, in northern Iraq on Tuesday in one of the worst single incidents in the four-year-old war.
Iraqi army Captain Mohammad al-Jaad said at least another 200 people were wounded in the bombings in separate Yazidi neighbourhoods in the town of Kahtaniya, west of Mosul.
(IraqSlogger) Mosul, Aug 14 (VOI)- Scores of civilians were killed or wounded on Tuesday evening in a string of blasts that took place near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, a security source said."Two cars rigged with explosives simultaneously detonated in Siba Sheikh Khidr housing compound, west of Mosul, killing 175 civilians and wounding over 200," the source, who asked not to be named, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
(Edmonton Journal) BAGHDAD - Suicide bombers driving fuel tankers killed 20 people and wounded 70 in what appeared to be an attack on an ancient minority sect in northern Iraq on Tuesday, police said.Police said it appeared three bombers driving separate tankers had attacked Yazidi sect members in different neighbourhoods in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, detonating their vehicles in quick succession.
(Guardian) BAGHDAD (AP) - Three suicide truck bombers targeted members of an ancient religious sect in northwestern Iraq, killing at least 20 people. In Baghdad, dozens of uniformed gunmen in 17 official vehicles stormed an Oil Ministry compound and abducted a deputy oil minister and three other officials, a ministry spokesman and police said.Nobody claimed responsibility for the bombings targeting the Yazidis - a primarily Kurdish sect that worships an angel figure considered to be the devil by some Muslims and Christians.
(yNet) A suicide truck bomb killed two people, wounded five and badly damaged a bridge linking Baghdad to northern Iraq on Tuesday, police said.
(CBC News) Three suicide bombers struck separate areas in Iraq on Tuesday, killing at least 27 people, police said.The first attack struck the Thiraa Dijla bridge in Taji, 18 kilometres north of the capital, a strategic bridge leading to the city of Mosul.
(BBC) The blasts apparently targeted a Kurdish religious minority, the Yazidi sect, near Mosul. At least four blasts hit areas which house the community.A Mosul police source told the BBC that there had been "large loss of life".
Tensions between the sect and local Muslims have grown since a Yazidi girl was reportedly stoned by her community in April for converting to Islam.
(CNN) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Suicide bombings in a northern Iraqi town Tuesday targeted a religious minority and left at least 120 people dead and 150 wounded, according to police officials, who said there were three bombings in three locations.Iraqi army officials, however, said there were four blasts that killed at least 175 and wounded 200.
Three bombers detonated three trucks laden with explosives in three locations around 8 p.m., officials said.
The blasts took place in the Yazidi town of Qahtaniya, about 60 miles west of Mosul. The Yazidi sect is a mainly Kurdish minority.
(MSNBC) BAGHDAD - Four suicide bombers hit Kurdish Yazidi communities with nearly simultaneous attacks on Tuesday, killing at least 175 people and wounding 200 others, said Iraqi military and local officials in northwest Iraq.(...)They said at least 30 homes were destroyed in the bombings.Yazidis are members of an ancient, primarily Kurdish, religious sect that worships an angel figure some that Christians and Muslims believe to be the devil.
(FoxNews)BAGHDAD — The Iraqi military said four homicide bombers hit Kurdish communities in northwest Iraq with nearly simultaneous attacks on Tuesday, killing at least 175 people and wounding 200 others. However, these numbers could not be confirmed by American officials.
PJ O’Rourke once said something to the effect that they invented the 0 in the Middle East, but that they also invented every other number since. We will just have to wait.
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