Suicide bomber kills 46 at funeral
Forty-six people were killed in today's suicide attack on a Shi'ite funeral in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Iraqi health officials said.
Officials from two main hospitals where casualties had been taken in the city said the toll had reached 46.
Earlier, police said 30 people had been killed and about 100 wounded in the bombing.
Witnesses said the casualties were from various sections of Iraqi society, who had been at the funeral to express their condolences.
Mainly Sunni Arab insurgents have staged increasingly audacious attacks on Shi'ite and official targets in their relentless campaign to topple a US-backed government and stall efforts by the Shi'ite majority to form a new cabinet.
In Baghdad, insurgents posing as policemen killed a police chief, stopping his truck at a fake checkpoint, asking his name then shooting him in an attack claimed by al-Qaeda followers.
Later police found the bodies of four Iraqi soldiers shot dead and dumped by insurgents in western Iraq, adding to two grim discoveries of 41 bodies -- some shot and others beheaded -- in the country's Sunni heartland earlier this week
Forty-six people were killed in today's suicide attack on a Shi'ite funeral in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Iraqi health officials said.
Officials from two main hospitals where casualties had been taken in the city said the toll had reached 46.
Earlier, police said 30 people had been killed and about 100 wounded in the bombing.
Witnesses said the casualties were from various sections of Iraqi society, who had been at the funeral to express their condolences.
Mainly Sunni Arab insurgents have staged increasingly audacious attacks on Shi'ite and official targets in their relentless campaign to topple a US-backed government and stall efforts by the Shi'ite majority to form a new cabinet.
In Baghdad, insurgents posing as policemen killed a police chief, stopping his truck at a fake checkpoint, asking his name then shooting him in an attack claimed by al-Qaeda followers.
Later police found the bodies of four Iraqi soldiers shot dead and dumped by insurgents in western Iraq, adding to two grim discoveries of 41 bodies -- some shot and others beheaded -- in the country's Sunni heartland earlier this week
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/03/11/1110417658939.html
How the hell do we win this war, when will it ever be over
For us or the Iraqi people
Forty-six people were killed in today's suicide attack on a Shi'ite funeral in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Iraqi health officials said.
Officials from two main hospitals where casualties had been taken in the city said the toll had reached 46.
Earlier, police said 30 people had been killed and about 100 wounded in the bombing.
Witnesses said the casualties were from various sections of Iraqi society, who had been at the funeral to express their condolences.
Mainly Sunni Arab insurgents have staged increasingly audacious attacks on Shi'ite and official targets in their relentless campaign to topple a US-backed government and stall efforts by the Shi'ite majority to form a new cabinet.
In Baghdad, insurgents posing as policemen killed a police chief, stopping his truck at a fake checkpoint, asking his name then shooting him in an attack claimed by al-Qaeda followers.
Later police found the bodies of four Iraqi soldiers shot dead and dumped by insurgents in western Iraq, adding to two grim discoveries of 41 bodies -- some shot and others beheaded -- in the country's Sunni heartland earlier this week
Forty-six people were killed in today's suicide attack on a Shi'ite funeral in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Iraqi health officials said.
Officials from two main hospitals where casualties had been taken in the city said the toll had reached 46.
Earlier, police said 30 people had been killed and about 100 wounded in the bombing.
Witnesses said the casualties were from various sections of Iraqi society, who had been at the funeral to express their condolences.
Mainly Sunni Arab insurgents have staged increasingly audacious attacks on Shi'ite and official targets in their relentless campaign to topple a US-backed government and stall efforts by the Shi'ite majority to form a new cabinet.
In Baghdad, insurgents posing as policemen killed a police chief, stopping his truck at a fake checkpoint, asking his name then shooting him in an attack claimed by al-Qaeda followers.
Later police found the bodies of four Iraqi soldiers shot dead and dumped by insurgents in western Iraq, adding to two grim discoveries of 41 bodies -- some shot and others beheaded -- in the country's Sunni heartland earlier this week
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/03/11/1110417658939.html
How the hell do we win this war, when will it ever be over
For us or the Iraqi people
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