Sunday, October 25, 2009

Iraq: On Ground Updates - October 25, 20009

Iraq: On Ground Updates
Twin Car Bombings Rock Central Baghdad Killing Over 130 People - Area Hospitals Overflow With More Than 600 Wounded
Sunday, October 25, 20009

* VOANews.com brings us the following troubling news late this Sunday morning and their report starts off like this... Iraqi police say two car bombs have claimed the lives of more than 130 people in central Baghdad. More than 200 others have been wounded in the Sunday blasts... The attackers struck just outside the Green Zone, the heavily fortified area that houses many government buildings... Police say the first bombing hit the justice ministry. Minutes later, another massive car bomb exploded outside the provincial government headquarters... Ambulances rushed to the scene. Private cars were also used to ferry the many wounded to hospitals... There was no immediate claim of responsibility...
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.* TIMESOnline.co.uk reports the news out of Baghdad like this... Twin car bombings in central Baghdad killed at least 136 people today in what looks like the start to a blood-drenched election campaign... The attacks - the deadliest in two years - occurred along a road thronged with traffic and destroyed three government buildings, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Public Works and the Baghdad governor's office, where ten members of parliament were attending a meeting... The bombs exploded within two minutes of each other at around 10:30 in the morning, First came a smaller bomb outside the Baghdad governorate, driving pedestrians north along Haifa street towards a ministerial complex 500 meters away, where the second and larger bomb went off... Hospitals overflowed with more than 600 wounded and columns of brown smoke hung over the city for hours. Haifa Street, which runs north from the fortified Green Zone, was flooded several feet deep with water from burst mains. The water turned red in places with the blood of the dead and injured...
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.* Telegraph.co.uk reports it like this...

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Second Baghdad Car Bomb Caught On Camera
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About above raw video: Two car bombings in Baghdad, one of them caught on film, have killed over 130 people and left many hundreds more wounded... The blasts, which went off less than a minute apart, targeted the justice ministry and the Baghdad provincial council.
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Scores killed in Iraq blasts - 25 Oct 09
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About this news video: Two car bombings in Baghdad, one of them caught on film in this report, have killed over 130 people and left many hundreds more wounded... The blasts, which went off less than a minute apart, targeted the justice ministry and the Baghdad provincial council... Al Jazeera's Owen Fay reports on what is the bloodiest attack in the Iraqi capital for months.
This video posted on YouTube by AlJazeeraEnglish
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