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Editorial See other Editorial Articles Title: Truck blast kills 105 in Iraq bloodbath Truck blast kills 105 in Iraq bloodbath NICHOLAS CHRISTIAN A DEVASTATING truck bomb has killed 105 people in a busy market in northern Iraq, while two British soldiers have died in the south of the country. Following another bloody 24 hours in Iraq, the US also announced the loss of nine troops and said that the past three months have been their costliest in terms of lives lost since the invasion of 2003. The blast yesterday destroyed the market in the small town of Amirli, south of Kirkuk, killing many people instantly and trapping dozens in the rubble. More than 240 people were injured in what was the most deadly single attack in Iraq since April. The bomb ripped through the market and destroyed mud-brick homes and set cars on fire. Victims had to be transported in farmers' pickup trucks to the nearest health facility, in Tuz Khormato, 27 miles to the north. Police said one man fled the truck before it detonated with another man still inside. Saleh Ali, a medic at Tuz Khormato, said: "Some are still under the rubble with no one to help them. There are no ambulances to evacuate the victims." Dozens of weeping relatives of victims crowded the hospital, searching for loved ones. Haitham Yalman, whose daughter and sister were wounded, said: "I saw destruction everywhere, dozens of cars destroyed, about 15 shops and many houses - even some more than 700 yards away." The night before, a suicide bomber detonated a booby-trapped car at a funeral being held in the Shi'ite Kurdish village of Zargosh, in the Sadiya region of Diyala province, about 75 miles north-east of Baghdad. The blast killed 22 people and wounded 17 others. In another incident, a family of seven was killed when the roof of their house was hit by a mortar. In the far south of Iraq, British troops came under heavy attack by militants in Basra, with one soldier killed and a further three wounded. The troops were hit by bombs, rocket-propelled grenades and small arms during an arrest operation in the city before dawn. The fighting involved 1,000 troops and was described by the UK military as the biggest British operation in Iraq this year. The MoD later added that the soldier killed in action was from the second Battalion The Royal Welsh. An MoD spokeswoman said: "It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence must confirm that a British soldier from 2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh has been killed during a large scale operation during the early hours of this morning. "The soldier was killed when an improvised explosive device detonated against a Warrior patrol in the Tuninah district in the north of Basra." In addition to the ground forces, Coalition aircraft destroyed roadside bombs as the British soldiers were extracted from the city, said a UK military spokesman. A soldier from the 4th Battalion, The Rifles, also died at the Basra Palace base in the centre of the city on Friday, in a non-combatant accident.
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#1. To: tom007 (#0)
I guess you put away the "suicide bomber" hysteria on this one....Mossad.
Don't worry, George will tell us all next week that it was only Al Queda that died. The insurgent/Al Queda body count over there is putting the phoney VC body count mark-up to shame.
Well as he has such a record of truth, I guess we must believe him.
"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men" Plato
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