BBC: More than 150 dead in Iraq blasts

[heyholetsgogrant]

More than 150 dead in Iraq blasts

At least 157 people have been killed in a string of attacks in Iraq's capital, Baghdad, security officials say.

In the deadliest incident, some 115 people were killed in a car bombing in a food market in Sadriya district.

An attack on a police checkpoint in Sadr City and several other explosions left at least another 42 people dead.

The attacks came as Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki said Iraqi forces would assume control of the country's security by the end of the year.

On Monday, the Iraqi parliament bloc loyal to radical cleric Moqtada Sadr withdrew from the cabinet, demanding Mr Maliki set a timetable for a US troop withdrawal.

'Unidentifiable'


The bomb in Shia-dominated Sadriya was reportedly left in a parked car and exploded at about 1600 (1200 GMT) in the middle of a crowd of workers.

The market was being rebuilt after it was destroyed by a bombing in February which killed more than 130 people.

"We lifted the dead," a man at the scene told the Associated Press news agency.

"One was totally unidentifiable, he had no ID. Actually his body was not even intact. We picked him up too."

About an hour earlier, a suicide car bomb attack on a police checkpoint in Sadr City killed 30 people.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6567329.stm

Source: BBC

[mboyd784]

Mission Accomplished!

[Buford]

typical liberal media. Only reporting the bad.

[Koolblue13]

Mission Acomplished?

[mboyd784]

typical liberal media. Only reporting the bad.

That dastardly Fox News.

[mboyd784]

Mission Acomplished?

Yup, total chaos as the pipeline is built and the oil is "appropriated".

[Zen-like Todd]

Mission Accomplished!

How much of a dick can you possible be?

[mboyd784]

How much of a dick can you possible be?

Teddy Roosevelt laughs at your touchy-feely sensitivity.

[Koolblue13]

How much of a dick can you possible be? Not enough of one to kill over 100,000 people for pesonal gain.:D

[Zen-like Todd]

Not enough of one to kill over 100,000 people for pesonal gain.:D


Quick to hop into the douchebag looney bin camp I see.

[Zen-like Todd]

Teddy Roosevelt laughs at your touchy-feely sensitivity.


Teddy Roosevelt laughs at your conspiracy nutcase outlook on life, and then beats you over the head with his big stick, while giving me a cheery thumbs up.

[Koolblue13]

Quick to hop into the douchebag looney bin camp I see.

Unless your saying anyone apposed to the war is a " con theory loon nut job" I don't understand. And if that is what you are saying, please stop saying things.

[mboyd784]

Quick to hop into the douchebag looney bin camp I see.


Teddy Roosevelt laughs at your conspiracy nutcase outlook on life, and then beats you over the head with his big stick, while giving me a cheery thumbs up.

"douchebag", "looney", "nutcase". In the psychiatric field, this is known as "projection".

[Zen-like Todd]

"douchebag", "looney", "nutcase". In the psychiatric field, this is known as "projection".


In the real world we call it an apt description of your behavior in the Tailgate.

[mboyd784]

In the real world we call it an apt description of your behavior in the Tailgate.

Examples?

[Koolblue13]

Mission Accomplished!Didn't even realize you wrote that before I did.Must be where I got the idea.:cheers:

[Zuck]

So the president said give the troop surge a chance to succeed. Every strategy he's gone for has failed. I think it's time to try James Baker's approach.


Remember the guy Bush jr. hired to come up with a new strategy and than immediately disregarded every recomendation?

[Zen-like Todd]

Examples?


Gee, let me think.... I'm sure I have to really dig into your posting history to pull up some examples... I'm sure there isn't a 9/11 conspiracy thread on the front page of the Tailgate right now with plenty of mboyd handiwork. :rolleyes:

[mboyd784]

Didn't even realize you wrote that before I did.Must be where I got the idea.:cheers:

Good to know that I'm not the only "crazy loon douchebag" who thinks that there may be some economic motivation for the occupation.:cheers:

[mboyd784]

Gee, let me think.... I'm sure I have to really dig into your posting history to pull up some examples... I'm sure there isn't a 9/11 conspiracy thread on the front page of the Tailgate right now with plenty of mboyd handiwork. :rolleyes:

But I'm OK in this thread? Whew, good thing.

[Zen-like Todd]

But I'm OK in this thread? Whew, good thing.

No, you're generally a disaster wherever you go.

[mboyd784]

No, you're generally a disaster wherever you go.

I must have more in common with W than I realized then. Who da thunk it?

[Zen-like Todd]

I must have more in common with W than I realized then. Who da thunk it?


Perhaps your most coherent thought of the day. ;)

[mboyd784]

Perhaps your most coherent thought of the day. ;)

Well, it's still early. Just wait until my "Four-legged frog a sign of End-Times?" thread.

[Henry]

I must have more in common with W than I realized then. Who da thunk it?

It's sad that that's funny.

[Zen-like Todd]

Well, it's still early. Just wait until my "Four-legged frog a sign of End-Times?" thread.


I was actually waiting for the "Shocking image of Rummy and Cheney kneecapping Gilbert Arenas as pulled from the reflection of Eddie Jordan's cufflinks" thread.

[mboyd784]

I was actually waiting for the "Shocking image of Rummy and Cheney kneecapping Gilbert Arenas as pulled from the reflection of Eddie Jordan's cufflinks" thread.

Good stuff.:cheers:

[G.A.C.O.L.B.]

I was actually waiting for the "Shocking image of Rummy and Cheney kneecapping Gilbert Arenas as pulled from the reflection of Eddie Jordan's cufflinks" thread.
:laugh:

[Predicto]

So the president said give the troop surge a chance to succeed. Every strategy he's gone for has failed. I think it's time to try James Baker's approach.


Remember the guy Bush jr. hired to come up with a new strategy and than immediately disregarded every recomendation?

Could you be any more of a dick? :D