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[jonathan83]

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This post has been edited by jonathan83: Feb 23 2006, 02:30 AM

[cupcake]

I'm assuming he's talking about this...

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/01/22/...main/index.html

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Bombs in Iraqi marketplaces killed dozens of people Monday in Baghdad and in Khalis, near the northeastern city of Baquba.

At least 88 people were killed and 160 wounded in central Baghdad in a pair of nearly simultaneous car bombings, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.

Hours later, an explosion ripped through a market in Khalis, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad -- killing 12 and wounding 29, Iraqi officials said.

The midday bombings in Baghdad's al-Sharqi district targeted civilians in a second-hand market, the site of several earlier attacks. (Watch ambulances rush to help bombing victims )

"Body parts everywhere, many bodies charred; it was horrible," the Interior Ministry official said.

Both car bombs were parked near the market and were detonated by remote control shortly after a driver stepped out of one of the vehicles, leaving its engine running, the official said, citing witnesses.

That car had a large amount of explosives and metal objects, including nails and other shrapnel, to inflict maximum casualties, the official said.

Also in Baghdad, mortar rounds fell on an elementary school in the Abu Dhseir section, killing one woman and wounding eight children.

In addition, a prominent Sunni tribal sheik, Riyadh Hussein al-Ogaidat, was fatally gunned down outside his home in Baghdad's western al-Furat neighborhood, an Interior Ministry official said.

In the nearby Jihad area, mortar rounds exploded in a residential area, wounding four civilians. (Watch what's being done to make new Baghdad security plan work )