At Least 23 Killed in Trio of Explosions in Baghdad

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At Least 23 Killed in Trio of Explosions in Baghdad

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Baghdad is shown in red on this map of Iraq.

On Thursday, 23 people were reported killed and at least 82 wounded in a series of three bombs that detonated in a crowded market in south Baghdad, according to the BBC.

BBC:

The blasts hit the Shurt al-Raba market in the south of the city, an interior ministry official told AFP news agency.

... An interior ministry official said explosives loaded into wooden carts were detonated in the market at 1845 (1545 GMT).

One bomb went off near Husseiniya, a place of worship for Shia Muslims, reports said.

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By thecrow, June 24, 2011 at 8:13 am Link to this comment

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2010/08/18/memory-against-forgetting/

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By surfnow, June 24, 2011 at 4:55 am Link to this comment

“Mission Accomplished”: Bush, May, 2003.

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By TDoff, June 23, 2011 at 4:09 pm Link to this comment

Thank goodness we’ll have some troops being redeployed from Afghanistan that we can redirect to Iraq to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqis and convince them to stop bombing each other…which is not something that the citizens of newly-built democratic nations are supposed to do, except very occasionally, as in the US.

Must have been an oversight by the previous nation-builders we’ve had stationed there for the past decade, not to inform them of the customs of a democracy.

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