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**Sean** · Nov 18, 2005, 05:12 pm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4448798.stm

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A series of suicide bombings in Iraq has left at least 80 people dead and another 100 injured.
In the worst attacks, suicide bombers struck two Shia mosques in the town of Khanaqin near the Iranian border, killing at least 74 people.

The bombers blew themselves up while hundreds of worshippers were attending Friday prayers, in what is being seen as an act of sectarian provocation.

Earlier, six people were killed in two suicide car bombs in Baghdad.

The attacks outside an interior ministry building in the central Jadiriya district injured at least 40 people and brought down a block of flats.

A hotel used by foreigners may also have been targeted in the attack.

A nearby interior ministry detention centre has been at the centre of a detainee abuse scandal.

The suicide bombs in Khanaqin, in north-eastern Iraq, are the latest in a string of attacks against Shia mosques.

The BBC's Jim Muir, in Baghdad, says the attacks were intended as an act of sectarian provocation, as all the casualties must have been Shia Muslims at prayer.

"Two suicide bombers wearing explosive belts walked into the Greater and the Smaller Khanaqin mosques and blew themselves up," Diyala provincial council leader Ibrahim Hasan al-Bajalan told the AFP news agency.

The blasts in enclosed spaces, packed with worshippers, caused horrendous casualties.

RickSp · Nov 18, 2005, 05:38 pm

Good thing we are still in Iraq. Otherwise the place might slip into chaos and bloodshed.

Please · Nov 19, 2005, 05:02 am

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Good thing we are still in Iraq. Otherwise the place might slip into chaos and bloodshed.

Have you also considered to establish a presence in France following the chaos of the last 20 days?

RickSp · Nov 19, 2005, 07:07 am

I take it you missed the sarcasm?

Please · Nov 20, 2005, 06:03 pm

Apologies Rick. Yes I missed it. And I must have missed it for a very good reason. We are inundated by the politicians with such a huge amount of nonsense that the dividing line between sarcasm and plain nonsense is blurred. Operation Irak is a failure for the West, and perhaps it has never been meant to be a success in the way ordinary people percieve success over terror. I have a feeling that we are there for a dream larger than Irak, and we look like a bunch of killers because the dream does not materialise.

bishop · Nov 20, 2005, 06:09 pm

the only thing good about this war will be the war movies that are made from it - just like vietnam..

sad but true imo.

Nov 18, 2005, 05:38 pm	#2 (permalink) (top)
RickSp Volcanic Erupter Posts: 9,491	Good thing we are still in Iraq. Otherwise the place might slip into chaos and bloodshed. Rick "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." Sinclair Lewis

Nov 19, 2005, 07:07 am	#4 (permalink) (top)
RickSp Volcanic Erupter Posts: 9,491	I take it you missed the sarcasm? Rick "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." Sinclair Lewis

Nov 20, 2005, 06:09 pm	#6 (permalink) (top)
bishop moderat-e/o-r Location: boston Posts: 11,184	the only thing good about this war will be the war movies that are made from it - just like vietnam.. sad but true imo. hope for america... http://www.ronpaul2008.com/

Nov 20, 2005, 06:03 pm	#5 (permalink) (top)
Please Sedimentary Rock Posts: 16	Apologies Rick. Yes I missed it. And I must have missed it for a very good reason. We are inundated by the politicians with such a huge amount of nonsense that the dividing line between sarcasm and plain nonsense is blurred. Operation Irak is a failure for the West, and perhaps it has never been meant to be a success in the way ordinary people percieve success over terror. I have a feeling that we are there for a dream larger than Irak, and we look like a bunch of killers because the dream does not materialise.