Sunday, August 13, 2006
And in Iraq today
From the AP:
Car bombs and a rocket barrage struck a predominantly Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad late Sunday, killing at least 47 people and wounding 148, Iraqi police and the defense Ministry said.Business as usual in Our Dear Embattled Leader's greatest achievement.
The attack in the Zafraniyah neighborhood of southern Baghdad began about 7:15 p.m. with two car bombs and a barrage of an estimated nine rockets, Defense Ministry spokesman Col. Saddoun Abu al-Ula said.
He said the barrage heavily damaged three buildings, including a multistory apartment house that collapsed. Al-Ula said the rockets appeared to have been fired from Dora, one of the mostly Sunni districts targeted by U.S. troops in a new security crackdown against sectarian violence in the capital.
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