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"Iraq bombings kill 18, wound dozens; Blasts occur as Maliki travels to Washington" by Christopher Torchia, Associated Press | July 22, 2009
BAGHDAD - Bombs killed at least 18 people and wounded dozens in Iraq yesterday in a sign that insurgents, though weakened, remain intent on destabilizing a country that is struggling to consolidate US-backed security gains.
And CUI BONO, 'eh?
Children, shoppers, and men looking for a day’s work were among the dead in attacks in Baghdad, Ramadi, and Baqubah, cities that saw some of the most intense fighting of Iraq’s long war but have since experienced sharp drops in violence....
The violence occurred as Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki traveled to Washington for a meeting today with President Obama....
Just a reminder we need to stay put.
There was no indication that insurgents timed the attacks to coincide with the US meeting, though they have in the past carried out operations around election days and other politically significant dates.
Sure is a COINCIDENCE, isn't it?
And just WAIT until you see WHO got BOMBED!!!
One of Maliki’s goals is to convince US investors that oil-rich Iraq is an attractive place to do business. However, continuing attacks, even at a relatively low pace, as well as American concerns that reconciliation among Iraq’s factions is not moving fast enough, could hurt the prime minister’s efforts....
Of course, anywhere else in the world....
Related: Occupation Iraq: Country in Crisis
Yesterday’s violence began just after 5 a.m., when two bombs exploded a few seconds apart near a group of day laborers in the Shi’ite district of Sadr City in northeast Baghdad....
Gee, Maliki's PRIME POLITICAL RIVAL gets the bombs, huh?
Police said one bomb was hidden in a food stall and the other was concealed in a trash pile, and that four people died and 31 were injured.
At around 11:30 a.m., a roadside bomb exploded near a market in Sadr City, killing four people and wounding at least 21, police and hospital officials said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. The dead included a baby girl and a 10-year-old girl.
I think it is a PRETTY OBVIOUS CUI BONO, 'eh, readers?
In the Dora district of south Baghdad, two people died and six were wounded when a car bomb exploded near a wholesale produce market. And in Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, a suicide car bomber targeted a restaurant and killed a doctor and injured 19 other people, including several children, said police Major General Tareq Youssef.
--more--"Also see: Occupation Iraq: Resurrecting Saddam Hussein
