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September 14, 2005
... a suicide bomber lured a crowd of day laborers gathering for work to his minivan and then blew it up...
At least a hundred are dead today in Baghdad, most of them in Shiite neighborhoods.
The attacks began when a suicide bomber lured a crowd of day laborers gathering for work to his minivan and then blew it up just before 7 a.m., killing at least 80 people and wounding 160 in Kadhimiya, a Shiite neighborhood.
Think about this. If the account is to be believed, this person lured day laborers --poor, hungry for work with only the crime of being Shiite-- into his van and then blew it up.
I don't think we have understood that this too is a large part of what is going on in Iraq. I believe our occupation is making the situation worse, much worse without providing any security for the population. But our occupation is not the only grave problem in Iraq right now -- and it's all tangled up in a very ugly way.
Posted by zeynep at September 14, 2005 07:49 AM
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"it's all tangled up in a very ugly way."
yep, tangled up in the worship of crude OIL...
Posted by: van at September 14, 2005 10:46 AM
Apparently, this story just gets worse. MSNBC is reporting that dozens of bomb attacks occurred and hundreds of people are dead in Baghdad.
Democracy is on the march!
Posted by: PusBoy at September 14, 2005 12:17 PM