Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Suicide Bombers Kill 175 in Iraq

Via Reuters:

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 175 people were killed when three suicide bombers driving fuel tankers attacked a town, home to an ancient minority sect, in northern Iraq on Tuesday in one of the worst single incidents in the four-year-old war.

Iraqi army Captain Mohammad al-Jaad said at least another 200 people were wounded in the bombings in separate Yazidi ["primarily ethnic Kurds" - catnip] neighborhoods in the town of Kahtaniya, west of Mosul.

Analysts are predictably trying to blame this on al Qaeda and are claiming that this action was meant to affect Petraeus' upcoming Good News About The Surge report in September (via CNN). But it's far too early to know exactly what's happened and what's going on in Baghdad shows how much of a failure the so-called surge has been, regardless.

Update:: Iraq attack toll may reach 500
 

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