News Source: Times Online
| about 1 year ago
March 7, 2008 United States forces will continue to pull out of Iraq despite last night's twin bombing in Baghdad that left at least 68 people dead and 120 injured. The coordinated blasts yesterday evening came after the US military announced that...
News Source: International Herald Tribune
| about 1 year ago
Funerals were held Friday for many of the victims of a twin bombing in a crowded Baghdad shopping district that killed at least 68 people and wounded 120. The funerals were held in the primarily Shiite, middle-class Baghdad neighborhood of Karrada,...
News Source: Reuters
| about 1 year ago
Powerful Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who has not been seen in public for months, issued an unusual statement on Friday explaining his absence to his followers and admitting splits in his movement. "I swear that I live with you and among...
News Source: BBC
| about 1 year ago
The Thursday blasts left another 130 people injured, officials said...The second bomb hit a crowd of people, including emergency workers, who had gathered to help after the first blast, causing the high death toll. No-one has claimed to have carried..
News Source: Voice of America
| about 1 year ago
Iraqi security officials have raised the death toll from Thursday's twin bomb attack in Baghdad to at least 68. Police said more than 120 others were wounded when the bombings went off within minutes of each other, destroying shops and cars in the...
News Source: Reuters
| about 1 year ago
Iraqi police said on Friday 68 people were killed in coordinated bombings blamed on al Qaeda in a packed shopping area in central Baghdad on Thursday, making it the deadliest attack in the Iraqi capital for nine months. Another 120 people were...