Bloodbath in Baghdad as series of blasts kill 200
By Patrick Cockburn
Streets runs with blood after bombs rip open parts of city
YESTERDAY will go down as a day of infamy for Iraqis who are repeatedly told by the US that their security is improving.
Almost 200 people were killed on one of the bloodiest days of the four-year-old war, when car bombs ripped through five neighbourhoods across the city, exposing the failure of the two-month-old US security plan.
In the aftermath of the blasts American and Iraqi soldiers who rushed to the scene of the explosions were pelted with stones by angry crowds.
The people shouted: "Where is the security plan? We are not protected by this plan." Billowing clouds of oily black smoke rose into the sky over the Iraqi capital as five bombs tore through crowded markets and streets leaving the ground covered in charred bodies and severed limbs.
"I saw dozens of dead bodies," said a witness in Sadriyah, a mixed Shia- Kurdish neighbourhood in west Baghdad where 118 people died and 139 were injured.
"Some people were burned alive inside minibuses. Nobody could reach them after the explosion. There were pieces of flesh all over the place. Women were screaming and shouting for their loved ones who died."
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Now if they just change the location to some U.S. city, people would understand, but since it's not here - it didn't happen. At least that's the way too many Americans feel about it.
Posted by: PeacechickMary | April 19, 2007 03:06 AM
32 dead at VT and our country goes crazy.
200 dead in Baghdad. I'll bet the people of this country will yawn and turn the pages of their newspapers.
and this bloodbath makes us safer--how?
Posted by: twocrows | April 19, 2007 07:04 AM
I don't know why I waste my time coming onto these stupid websites but you guys need to inform yourselves before you start posting pictures. That April 22 picture with the soldier "supposedly" giving "someone" the finger was probably..no, it WAS.. the stupidest thing I have ever heard. Educate your ignorant selves before you judge because for all you clueless people, that is how a soldier is supposed to hold his weapon. And least of all you ought to be ashamed to use a pic like that just to cause controversy. These soldiers are risking their lives over there so at least give them the respect they deserve. And don't comment back because I don't care to read anybody's dumb comments.
Posted by: Jessica | April 24, 2007 07:38 PM