Iraqi police: 60 dead in double bombing

Yahoo/AP ^

[nuconvert]

BAGHDAD – Back-to-back suicide bombings killed 60 people Friday outside the most important Shiite shrine in Baghdad, a day after the country was rocked by its most deadly violence in more than a year.

[nuconvert]

“Among the dead were 25 Iranian pilgrims, said a police and a hospital official. Both said at least 125 people, including 80 Iranian pilgrims, also were injured in the blast”

IMO - Iranians were targeted

[KSCITYBOY]

Now the violence ramps up again since the enemy knows that Obama is weak will yank our troops out when the going gets tough.

[luvbach1]

Obalmy between rock and hard place. His choices: try to maintain progress made under the Bush surge and withdraw in an orderly fashion or yield to leftist pressure to cut and run in the face of renewed enemy violence.

[Steamburg]

All it took was one 0bambi visit. His screw America Tour has just begun.

[wheresmycheckbarry?]

Once again this was all predicted only a few days ago....it seems ass if our powers that be are self fulfilling prophets....

[heylady]

My son is on his third tour. These increased bombings are making me very nervous. I need to go take an Ativan.

[Eddie01]

Headline should read:

Enemy Emboldened by Lack of Obama Resolve

[jveritas]

Exactly.

[jveritas]

God bless your son and keep him safe. We owe your son and all our brave troops an eternal debt for protecting our freedom and our way of life.

God bless our brave troops.

[NavyCanDo]

Let us all look back at how the violence surged following the Abu Ghraib photos being published. Many soldiers did not come home because of the those photos, no doubt about it. The media with the help of the Democrats are doing it all over again with these Gitmo photos, on top of Obama announcing troop pull out deadlines.

[AdmSmith]

IMO - Iranians were targeted

or the target was shiites, i.e. “polytheists”, shirk, according to deobandis/salafists/wahhabis

[G8 Diplomat]

I’ve heard people say Iranians were the target as well, which is probably correct since most people injured were Iranians and Shi’ites.

[AdmSmith]

Sure. but they are trying to solve this equation:
Choose target so you get max P(target is a Shiit)

If Target is Iraqi then P = 0.60-0.65
if Target is Iranian then P = 0.89
and if Target is Iranian outside a Shiite Mosque then P = 1.00

[nuconvert]

I wish your son the son the very, and thank him sincerely, for his service.
My thoughts go out to you and your family.

[nuconvert]

“Thursday’s blast occurred inside a crowded roadside restaurant filled with Iranian pilgrims near Muqdadiya in Diyala province.
The suicide bomber, wearing a belt of explosives, blew himself up at lunch time.”
“The Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization announced on Thursday that the caravans that were hit by the terrorist act had been organized by travel agencies acting under the supervision of the Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Organization. “