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Adil Al-khazali / AP
A wounded woman is helped at the scene following a bomb attack in Baghdad, June 4. A suicide bomber detonated explosives in a car outside Iraq's main religious affairs office for Shiite Muslims on Monday, tearing down part of the three-story building.
Adil Al-khazali / AP
A wounded man is helped from the scene after a bomb attack in Baghdad, June 4.
Mohammed Ameen / Reuters
Civil defense personnel work at the site of a collapsed building that was the target of a bomb attack in Baghdad June 4. A powerful car bomb exploded outside a Shiite Muslim administration office in central Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 26 people and wounding around 60 more, just days after six coordinated blasts rocked the Iraqi capital.
Reuters reports: The attacker targeted the Shi'ite Endowment - a government-run body that manages Shi'ite religious and cultural sites - leaving dead and wounded along a main street nearby and blasting part of its headquarters to rubble, police said.
"It was a powerful explosion, dust and smoke covered the area. At first I couldn't see anything, but then I heard screaming women and children," said policeman Ahmed Hassan, who was at a nearby police station when the bomb went off.
"We rushed with other police to help ... the wounded were scattered all around, and there were body parts on the main street," he said. Full story.
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These tribal kids today.... always quick to strap on a bomb and destroy themselves along with their own countrymen.... savages.
gwbush and cheney knew this would be an on going war.....everyone that knows anything about the middle east knew there would be a civil war and discontent would last forever in Iraq. Why in God's name did this country go to war there? OIL
The human toll on us and the Iraqi's is sinful. The unpaid for war, destroyed our treasury. It will take us years to get out of our deficit, all due to a needless war. Just imagine how well off we would be today had the war not happened.
We lived through Stalin, Mao and many other horrible leaders. There was a reason we did not try to overthrow them. I am thankful at least to the presidents of that era that the had the foresight not to get involved. Then the era of gwbush came into effect. We Americans for be paying for his debacle for centuries....thank you bush and cheney for ruining this country.
Rest assured though that Halliburton, Bush, Cheney and all their friends are all well off. It's the rest of us that will be paying for their madness for years to come.
Little lopsided flag. Forgot Viet Nam. Alot of money and many more lives. Brought to you by Democrats Kennedy and Johnson. Bush and Cheney are no more at fault than them, just newer. And how about Afghanastan, were still throwing $ in that pit after almost 4 yrs of "O".
ok DOG...you just don't seem to get it do you? I was a marine in Vietnam....I hoped to God we could of learned from that fiasco.....but some people just didn't. The oil people....please this is the 21st century and to give bush and cheney a pass, when we all knew it was all about oil...well that is just hillbilly mentality. Dog, God only knows you can't cut and run when you stir up a hornets nest.....we got stung and we will be there forever, one way or another. We have to keep up the taj mahal embassy that your buddies built. There is no, no, no excuse for going into Iraq.
Thank you for your service. You make good points for sure. But can you briefly tell me why people believe it is oil? We haven't been getting any extra for our efforts and prices don't go down.
There was no other reason on God's green earth to go to Iraq then oil. Remember right after the invasion, the only thing we protected was the oil ministry. "Since US forces rolled into central Baghdad a week ago, one of the sole
public buildings untouched by looters has been Iraq's massive oil ministry,
which is under round-the-clock surveillance by troops.The imposing building in the Al-Mustarisiya quarter is guarded by around 50
US tanks which block every entrance, while sharpshooters are positioned on the
roof and in the windows.The curious onlooker is clearly unwelcome. Any motorist who drifts within a
few metres of the main entrance is told to leave immediately.
Baghdad residents have complained that US troops should do more to protect
against the looters, most of them Shi'ite Muslims repressed by Saddam Hussein's
Sunni-dominated regime who live in the vast slum known as Saddam City on the
northern outskirts.But while museums, banks, hotels and libraries have been ransacked, the oil
ministry remains secure."
Do you really think gwbush (the bush oil family included) cheney, their friends and the oil industry would bring down prices? Why would they stop all that oil money falling into their pockets?
I agree with you flag waver. We're not in Syria right now because.....you guessed it, no oil there.
Very sorry for your loss in Bagdhad.