So sad to see Wahabis inflicting untold horrors on Iraqi Shias. Is this a fight against the West? No! These MaToos killed Pakistani-Shias as well. These Wahabi inspired killers know no bounds. May Allah send all of them to hell.
85 dead, 110 wounded in Iraq car bombing
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_30-9-2005_pg1_6
BAGHDAD: At least 85 people were killed and more than 110 wounded when three car bombs exploded within minutes of each other in the mainly Shia central Iraqi town of Balad, while five American soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in the western town of Ramadi on Thursday.
Two pick-up trucks blew up in a central shopping street at 6:30pm and 6:40pm, with a third pick-up exploding in another neighbourhood 10 minutes later, local police Lt Col Adel Abdallah said. A fourth car bomb exploded an hour later in northern Baghdad, targeting an army patrol, although no casualties were immediately reported.
A doctor at Baghdad’s Khadimiyah Hospital said that 40 ambulances were dispatched to Balad, but none had yet returned.
At least nine people were killed in other violence on Thursday in the country, including four policemen in two separate attacks in Baghdad, and the mayor of Al-Khalis, a town 80 kilometres north of the capital.
Five US soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb during combat in Ramadi, the deadliest single attack for US troops in weeks, the US military said. The soldiers, assigned to the 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, were hit by the bomb while “conducting combat operations” on Wednesday in the town, which is a hotbed of activity by Iraq’s insurgents, a statement by the Marines said.
Their deaths came a day after another soldier attached to the Marines was killed in clashes in Ramadi, 100 kilometres west of Baghdad. Thirteen US service members have been killed in violence in Iraq over the past five days. The latest deaths bring to 1,934 the number of US service members who have died since the Iraq war started in March 2003.
Iraq has seen almost daily attacks in the run-up to an October 15 referendum on a draft constitution, with US President Bush warning of the likeliness of even more violence ahead of the poll.
Meanwhile, the Anglican Church said the entire lay leadership of its Baghdad church, including three members of one family, were feared dead after disappearing on the road back from Jordan.
With a referendum on Iraq’s constitution two weeks away, Arab Sunnis remain fiercely opposed to the draft, stepping up pressure on the US to broker a last-minute deal to ease sectarian divisions.
“The constitution issue is dead until the referendum,” said Sunni negotiator Hussein al-Falluji on Thursday. “We will vote ‘No’ and we will not accept the American policy of aggression to get what they want. There is no way we will support it.” afp/ap
