200 DEAD IN WEEK OF IRAQ VIOLENCE; 7 killed as militant attacks rise ahead of US pull-out.Byline: PATRICK QUINN
Patrick Dominic Quinn (b. February 12 1950, Philadelphia – September 24 2006, Bushkill, Pennsylvania) was an American actor and a former president of the MORE than 200 people have been killed in Iraq so far this week ahead of a US military withdrawal from key cities. A bombing at a bus station in a Shiite neighbourhood in southwest Baghdad yesterday killed at least seven people. Another three bombs and a mortar killed two more people around the capital. Nine American soldiers were wounded in two roadside bomb attacks against a convoy in eastern Baghdad. A roadside bomb also killed a man in the northern city of Mosul. The attacks were latest is a series of bombings targeting Shiites in the past week. The car bomb that exploded inside the Baiyaa district's bus station also wounded 31 people. The bombings came as police sifted through the bloody debris of an explosion on Wednesday that killed 78 people, trying to determine how such a device was smuggled into the teeming teem 1 v. teemed, teem·ing, teems v.intr. 1. To be full of things; abound or swarm: A drop of water teems with microorganisms. 2. heart of Baghdad's Shiite Sadr City  This article or section may contain a proseline.Please help [ convert this timeline] into prose or, if necessary, a . . US and Iraqi officials have warned more attacks are to be expected in the days before and after US troops complete a withdrawal from cities and major urban centre on June 30. Most of the attacks so far have targeted Shiites or communities with predominantly Shiite populations. The killing spree began on June 20 with a massive truck bomb that killed 82 people in a mainly Shiite town near the northern city of Kirkuk, which was the deadliest bombing so far this year. In a statement, US Ambassador Christopher Hill Christopher Hill may refer to several different people:
tr.v. de·plored, de·plor·ing, de·plores 1. To feel or express strong disapproval of; condemn: "Somehow we had to master events, not simply deplore them" the senseless deaths and injuries of innocent Iraqi citizens." Besides killing 78, the attack in Sadr City also wounded 143 people. It was the deadliest in more than two years in the area, which is heavily controlled and where people entering the district have to pass through numerous checkpoints. Sources said the bomb was built using 44lbs of high explosives packed with steel bearing and other metal objects. It was apparently loaded on a motorcycle pulling a cart. Dr Mahmoud Mizaal, at Sadr City hospital, said: "Most of victims of the explosion that occurred in Sadr city had steel balls and nails in their bodies." The increase in violence has raised concerns about the ability of Iraqi forces to protect their people after the withdrawal, part of a security agreement that will see all American troops out of Iraq by 2011. The explosion in Sadr City came only a few days after the US handed over to Iraqis its main base on the edge of the former Shiite militia stronghold. CAPTION(S): AFTERMATH Relative grieves as coffin, left, of Sadr city victim is carried away by crowd HORROR A man with blast injuries is taken to hospital SOFT TARGET Police sift wreckage of bus station attack in Baghdad yesterday |
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