Posted on 08/15/2007 7:37:20 AM PDT by Captain Kirk
More than 200 people were slaughtered when four suicide truck bombs targeted the ancient Yazidi religious sect in northern Iraq amid growing fears Wednesday that more dead were trapped under the rubble.
In one of the bloodiest single incidents of the four-year war in Iraq, bombers detonated four explosive-laden trucks in two villages in the province of Nineveh inhabited by members of Iraq's Yazidi minority late Tuesday.
The attacks in the villages of Al-Khataniyah and Al-Adnaniyah killed more than 200 people and wounded another 200, said Dakhil Qassim Hassun, mayor of the Sinjar municipality.
Victims were ferried to hospitals across northern Iraq as local clinics struggled to deal with the overwhelming number of dead and wounded, with rescue workers to continue searching for survivors in the rubble of pancaked homes.
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Despicable bxxxxxds.
Cowards.
This follows the article about how attacks are down 50%. Such articles should never be written or posted since some Alqaida goon somewhere will take it as an opportunity to get a proper state of terror reinstated by staging some special attacks. Perhaps there is no statistical correlation, but it seems to never fail.
I’d noticed that too.
Mrs VS
Plan on a 100-car-bomb-salute,
to Patreaus’ September report.
Estimations up - 250 dead / 375 wounded.
You can be sure the MSM which silenced two months of good news will use this to undermine the troops over there.
Actually, the MSM (most notably the NYT) has been surprisingly willing to accept the theory the surge is a success.
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