Coordinated suicide bombings in Iraq:
BAGHDAD, Dec. 27 — Suicide attackers carried out four coordinated car bombings Saturday outside the bases of U.S.-led forces in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, killing six soldiers from Bulgaria and Thailand as well as seven Iraqis, according to military officials.
The afternoon attacks, which wounded more than 100 people, came in rapid succession, targeting a military logistics camp near a university, a base housing a Thai-run hospital and the city government center, where U.S. military police are posted, officials and witnesses said. Five American soldiers were injured in the last strike.
The afternoon attacks, which wounded more than 100 people, came in rapid succession, targeting a military logistics camp near a university, a base housing a Thai-run hospital and the city government center, where U.S. military police are posted, officials and witnesses said. Five American soldiers were injured in the last strike.
Its too early to see how the press will cover this major, post-Saddam attack (betcha it’ll be the Dean party line: “See? We’re no safer!! No safer, I tell you!!”) but I think at least the major conclusion should be self-evident – Iraqi militants are increasingly desperate to show that they’re relevant, and they’re willing to attack major civilian targets to do so. In the long run, that can’t be good for them.
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