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At least 25 killed in Iraq bombing
At least 25 people were killed and 100 were wounded in a double suicide bombing in the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar on Friday, an Interior Ministry official said.
A suicide car bomber detonated explosives at a stadium where people had gathered to watch a football match Friday evening. Moments later, a second bomber struck the stadium on foot.
Tal Afar is an ethnically mixed city about 420 kilometers (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad.
Later on Friday, at least four Iraqis were killed and eight others wounded when a roadside bomb detonated near a park in the predominantly Sunni district of Adhamiya in northern Baghdad.
The stadium attack followed a spate of violence across Iraq on Monday that claimed 85 lives and injured nearly 300, making it the nation's deadliest day so far this year.
Attacks were launched in six provinces, including Basra, Wasit and Babil - which tend to be less violent than others - in violence reminiscent of what was typical during the height of the sectarian war.
The violence comes at a critical time in Iraq, as the country is struggling to form a government after contentious national elections, a process that Western officials have described as "lagging."
No one has claimed responsibility for Friday's attacks, but such coordinated assaults bear the hallmarks of al Qaeda in Iraq, which is known to take advantage of political fissures to carry out attacks to create turmoil.
- CNN's Jomana Karadsheh contributed to this report.
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They really ought to stop that stupid behavior. Muslims are starting to get a reputation for doing harm. When I think, muslim, I think of terror attacks, unimaginable cruelty, beheadings, abuse of women, and a barbaric legal system. What else have they offered the world community? I really can't think of anything. Maybe Dubai, but that may turn into what some will call a white elephant. If it is a religion of peace, then the Imams should condemn violence, not encourage it (Bin Laden was able to buy a Fatwa that says Allah will approve killing up to 10,000,000 anericans – but we all know that either the fatwa, or the Imam, or the Alla is a fake. Maybe all three. Is that is a religion of peace or pizza, or piece of cr*p. If it has no respect for life, and disregardseven the idea of love, then it is the latter, a lie, a wolf in sheep's clothing (which really doesn't fool anyone iwth a brain). I guess honesty makes me polictically incorrect. If this comment was offensive, it is at least no where near as offensive as a suicide bomber.
It is not the blame of any president or foriegn goverment, that is the way those people are, long before anyone went in that country otherwise we would not be there, the western nations are far better off to deal with the problem now while they have the co-operation of other nations, if you pull out now , you will loose that support and the other nations will not be so willing to get involved again, if you break and run, do not believe that bull that the usa is bankrupt, look at your nation and notice all the things that are taxed, they have money to pay for everything, do not believe bank and financial collapses, ronald regan deliberately pulled a trust company collapse, so did george the elder pulled a collapse as did george W, that stimulus bail out was all bull, the only collapse was what they were trying to pull off and got caught, do you yeally believe GM or chrysler paid that money back in two months ,,if they did they made more money than the rest of the world combined, the truth they will not tell you about is george the younger was trying with his world cohorts to pull it off but got slipped up when McCAIN never got elected, i believe obama knows that but does not want to admit it, thats where GM and chrysler got the money to pay back, not money thier corporations earned but they had to return the stimulous money, all of them, and greeces financial problem is another one,
I THINK CYBERTROLL SHOULD SIGN UP FOR THE MILITARY.
Man's inhumanity to man. Will it never stop?????
Bush invaded Iraq because he said Sadam was a butcher and killing his own people. Now since the invasion, 1000 times more innocent Iraqi men, women and children have been killed in 7 years than what Sadam did in his lifetime.
LEAKING OPSEC
number 50 my thought exactly
Iraq needs to look at its policy towards these terrorist groups. To me it looks like they just want to kill anyone, even if that includes people in their own country.
At least if they are killing each other they aren't killing us.
TALIBAN! Al-QAEDA! MILITIAS; WESTERN AND ESPECIALLY THE
MIDEAST HEAR ME,YOU CHILDREN OF SATAN! YOU MURDERERS,
DECEIVERS, PEOPLE YOU BEHEAD AND CAPTURES WITHOUT COMPASSION
AND MERCY. “ALLAH”(AN IDOL KING) ONCE AND TO MOST WHO
WORSHIP HIM, IS SPIRITUALLY ON EARTH CALLS YOU. WHEN YOU BLOW
UP INNOCENT PEOPLE OF THE WORLD NOT CREATED BY HE “ABBA” ( A
NUMBERED KING OF MANY BEFORE HIM). YOU WILL BELIEVE YOU
KNOW THIS WORD I’M TALKING ABOUT, BUT HALF HASN’T BEEN TOLD. I
WILL NOT REVEAL EVER! IN ALL OF ITS EXISTENCE HE IS THE KING OF
KINGS, LORD THY GOD, JEHOVAH, THE TRUTH, THE BEGINNING AND THE
END. YOU SHOUT TO YOUR GOD; HE WHO ALL OF ITS EXISTENCE? FOLLY!
YOU SHOUT TO THIS GOD AS IF YOUR FORGIVEN FOR GOOD DEEDS, DO AS
YOU WILL. I TELL YOU THE TRUTH, THE BLOOD YOU SHED WILL HAUNT
YOUR DREAMS NOW AND THE LAST BREATH YOU TAKE, YOUR FEARS AND
HIDING IN MOUNTAINS WILL NOT PROTECT YOU! YOU WILL NOT
ESCAPE AS OF JUDAH BETRAYED THE MESSIAH AND KILLED HIMSELF.
“ABBA” IS LAST AND “ALLAH” AN IDOLATRY OF ITS PEOPLE. YOUR GOD
LIVED ONCE BEFORE AS WE DO NOW AND DIED AS WE WILL. HE HAS DEAF
EARS AND STAYS LOCKED IN DEATH AND HADES.. TRUTH
CONSTANTINE
I think Constantine slipped out of his straight jacket again and got out of his room. We need to double his thorazine. Ok, Constantine, put down the keyboard and slowly back away. The orderlies are here to help you.
despite what is happening to our troops they cant leave or we will have made them die in vain AND THAT SHOWS NO RESPECT!