Blasts Kill 40 at 3 Iraq Police Stations (MERGED)

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Now the insurgents don’t care if children are killed as long as it hurts the U.S. Sickening.

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BASRA, Iraq - Near-simultaneous explosions killed 40 people and injured some 200 others at three police stations in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Wednesday, witnesses and a hospital source said.

At one station in the Saudia district of Basra, four vehicles were seen destroyed including two school buses. At least one of the school buses appeared to have been full of passengers, an Associated Press reporter at the scene said.

The facade of the Saudia station was also heavily damaged.

Police Maj. Ouda al-Jabiri, at Saudia, said the cause of the blasts was not immediately known. There was a hole two yards deep and three yards wide in front of the Saudi station.

British military spokesman Squadron Leader Jonathan Arnold said the blasts were believed to have been caused by car bombs.

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No one cares for the children, least of all those who deprived these same children of food & medicines for more than a decade.

Anyways - what more proof does President Bush need that his whole Iraq strategy has been a fiasco from day one? How many more litres of blood are we reckoning it will take? How many more widows would we like to create? How many more orphans ? What does it take to get someone's head out of the sand.

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Oh God.

Oh God.

Oh God.

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Absolutely condemnable crime, whoever carried it out.

But let us not forget that whenever these atrocties have been carried out i.e. primarily to create division among Shia’s and Sunni’s, the people have always tended to somehow blame the American’s. Note this article, which started the campaign against Sadr and the Shias:-

***On 26 February, an article in al-Hawza claimed that a bombing two weeks earlier that targeted the mostly Shia town of Iskandariyah, south of Baghdad, killing 53 people, was a rocket “fired by an (American) Apache helicopter and not a car bomb”. ***

But as I said whoever carried this out, this should be roundly condemnded, as should all killings of innocent Iraqi people.

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Bombs hit Basra police stations

The rush-hour explosions caused panic across Basra
Explosions probably caused by car bombs have hit three police stations in the southern Iraqi of Basra, killing at least 44 and injuring many more.
The near-simultaneous blasts happened during morning rush hour on Wednesday.

Two school buses - one apparently full of children - were destroyed in one of the attacks, a AP correspondent reported from the scene.

Gunmen also launched a fierce attack on US marines surrounding the central Sunni city of Falluja.

Iraqi police told Reuters that mortar bombs had hit two police stations in the central Ashar district of Basra while a third station was targeted in the Old City.

However, a UK military official in the city suggested the three explosions, which all came at about 0715 (0315 GMT), had been caused by car bombs.

“They were vehicle-based improvised explosive devices,” said Squadron Leader John Arnold.

Angry crowds

In Basra’s Saudia district, the wreckage of four vehicles could be seen, including the two school buses.

Distraught Iraqis stoned coalition forces trying to help
A police colonel said about 10 elementary school students whose bus had been passing at the time of the blast were among the dead.

The facade of Saudia police station was also heavily damaged with a hole two metres deep and three metres wide.

Squadron Leader Arnold said that coalition medical forces were standing by to assist with casualties but had been unable to reach two blast sites “because coalition forces are being stoned by crowds”.

Another UK spokesperson told the PA news agency that Basra had been “mainly calm” up to now and the attacks were “worrying”.

Iraqi doctors say they counted at least 40 dead and up to 200 injured.

Dawn assault

In Falluja, about 35 militants attacked US troops with guns and grenades.

The US ringed Falluja more than two weeks ago
The gunmen struck in the north of the city, mounting a “massive” barrage of rocket-propelled grenades and small-arms fire, AP said.

Explosions could be heard throughout Falluja as marines were put on high alert.

The US defence secretary warned on Tuesday that coalition troops would not wait indefinitely for gunmen to surrender in Falluja.

Donald Rumsfeld suggested the chance of a peaceful outcome was remote as militants resisting US marines were not involved in the negotiations.

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Scores killed in Iraqi bombings

Ab kiya ma-ieN apnay bachouN kee lashaN uthain gee?

Ya Allah.

:frowning:

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Ok as I read the bbc webpage they say there's another new blast as well.

LATEST: New blast near Basra kills at least two Iraqis, wounds two British soliders. More soon.

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this is just unbelievable.

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Death Toll from Basra Blasts Up to 55
Wed Apr 21, 2004 02:27 AM ET

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BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - At least 55 people were killed and 200 wounded when car bombs hit three police station in the southern city of Basra, a Reuters reporter said.
The reporter counted corpses at the morgue of Sadr Teaching Hospital that were brought in from the scene of the blasts. *A hospital official said the bodies of 39 victims had been identified while at least 16 other bodies were burned beyond recognition. *

Shaid ab ma-ieN apnay bachouN kee lashaN nahin uthain gee un ko pachanay gee....

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*Originally posted by ravage: *
this is just unbelievable.
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I wanna cry.

It seems like this will never end.

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*Distraught Iraqis stoned coalition forces trying to help *

Yep, just as I said earlier those primarily targeted i.e. the Shias, have always tended to blame the American's every time such atrocities have been carried out.

Another interesting thing to note, is how the Iraqi police and the British military occupiers are giving differing versions of the type of bombing this was. Note:-

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Iraqi police told Reuters that mortar bombs had hit two police stations in the central Ashar district of Basra while a third station was targeted in the Old City.
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However, a UK military official in the city suggested the three explosions, which all came at about 0715 (0315 GMT), had been caused by car bombs.
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Car bombs cause carnage in Basra

A spate of car bombs have exploded in Iraq’s second city of Basra, killing at least 68 people, in apparently co-ordinated attacks that targeted police stations.

The explosions occurred during the morning rush hour, targeting three police stations and a police academy in Zubair on the outskirts of the British-controlled Shia city, which until now has remained relatively calm despite fierce fighting elsewhere in the country.

Among the injured were four British soldiers at the police academy - two of whom were seriously wounded, the UK defence ministry said.

A Reuters reporter on the scene at Basra’s Sadr teaching hospital on Wednesday said that at least 55 people had been killed and 200 wounded in the attacks.

Ten of the dead were primary school, killed on their way to school. They were on board one of two school buses passing a police station in the Saudia district of the southern Iraqi city.
Car bombs cause carnage in Basra

Another day of bloodshed the occupiers are doing a fine job NOT on the security front yet again!

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Yet another sensless carnage - IMO the primary fault lies with those carrying out attacks which they know will result in heavy "collateral damage". The target should be the occupation forces not Iraqi police and civilians. Dumb criminals.

PS: moderator pls merge with that started by UTD on same subject.

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Originally posted by Malik73: *
**Distraught Iraqis stoned coalition forces trying to help *

Yep, just as I said earlier those primarily targeted i.e. the Shias, have always tended to blame the American's every time such atrocities have been carried out.
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So what's your point? That Iraqis follow the lead of guppies and other Muslims worldwide in severe blame displacment disorder? Or that they have some super secret intelligence agency that is able to determine that Americans are targeting Shia civilians and policemen?

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I just love the Al-Jazeera website coverage here.

In the blast in Basra, the word that the blasts went off near two school buses, and that as many as 20 children may be killed does not make into the story until the 7th paragraph. (Had this been the US there would have been an outrageous screaming headline).

The lead story from Aljazeera is a claim that:

“Blast levels Saudi Arabia security building”

Of course the building is still standing, and there are 10 deaths compared to 70 in Iraq. The photo on the web site implies complete collapse of the building (thus a terrorist victory). So what are you left with? If you only read the headlines you are left with the impression that the terrorists have been successful in leveling a building in Saudis, despite 5 of the 6 bombs being defused, and there are bombs in Iraq, but the mention of 20 school children is way below the headline level.

Subtle but effective propaganda.

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The worlwide war against shias continues and the sunnis remain silent, while naive shias themselves blame america. The real enemy is islamism and wahabisim, not america. Islamist terrorists will use any excuse to kill the innocent. If it not the palestinian situation, then the iraq war, or the abandoning of taliban by pakistan. Terror has many excuses it seems.

And Allah has given them eyes, yet they are blind. They will blame america, bush, mossad, cia, jews, india, hindus, buddhists, but give shelter to the real enemies living alongside them.

And then they want us to fix the "root causes" of terrorists. We should fix the root causes of terrorists, after we kill them all.

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Originally posted by Nadia_H: *
Anyways - **what more proof does President Bush need that his whole Iraq strategy has been a fiasco from day one?*

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Why are you blaming Bush for attack by islamist terrorists? If Bush did not exist, would their be no islamist jihadis? You would be better of blaming shias for being stupid enough for not seeing the wahab evil.

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The victories for the freedom fighters keep mounting.

“Suicide bombers killed 68 people, among them 17 children incinerated in two minibuses on their way to school.”

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4895466&section=news

Among the dead were about 10 Iraqi policemen.

Hmm. Weigh the scales. 10 stooge policemen providing aid and comfort to the coalition VERSUS 17 incinerated Iraqi children and 41 other unidentified people (most of whom were undoubtedly Iraqis going about their day to day affairs). Undoubtedly a price well worth paying to end the occupation. Come on all of you big, strong jihadis, don’t lose your faith in the bigger picture. Stay the Course. Tomorrow we may place another American soldier in a box. Friday, we may get a Brit. Slit the throat of an Italian journalist or two. Let’s salute our martyred heroes dieing in these suicide blasts with three big ones. :k: :k: :k:

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^^ Everyone must be so proud. All hail the mighty and righteous resistance!

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Stick to the topic of this thread.