A deadly truck bombing in a busy market in northern Iraq has killed 105 people and injured 240, police say.
The morning blast destroyed the market in the small town of Amirli, south of Kirkuk, killing many people instantly and trapping dozens among the rubble.
It was the deadliest single attack in Iraq since April, correspondents say.
It came as 29 people were killed in separate violence, including 22 people who died overnight in Diyala province when a suicide bomber hit a cafe.
The truck bomb struck Amirli on a busy shopping morning, destroying several buildings around the heart of the market, police said.
Rescuers were forced to move injured people to Tuz Khurmato, the nearest major town, some 45km (28 miles) away, and some casualties were said to have died on the way.
Others were taken on to Kirkuk, the largest city in the region, for more intensive treatment.
"I heard the cries of my child, then I heard nothing else until I woke in hospital," housewife Sukaina Abdul Razak told AFP news agency in Kirkuk.
"I don't know the fate of my husband and my family. They were all in the kitchen, but I was in my room."
MAJOR ATTACKS IN 2007
7 July: 105 killed in Amirli market bombing
19 June: 87 die in Baghdad mosque blast
18 April: 190 killed in car bombings in Baghdad
29 March: 82 killed in double suicide bombing in Baghdad market
6 March: 90 killed in double suicide bombing in Hilla
3 Feb: 130 die in suicide truck bombing in Baghdad
22 Jan: 88 killed in Baghdad car bombings
Source: AFP
Kirkuk lies outside Iraqi Kurdistan but is claimed by many Kurds for their national capital.
Officials in Diyala said the bomber who struck on Friday night targeted a busy cafe used by the Shia Kurdish community.
The small village is close to the border with Iran.
In other violence, police said a family of seven sleeping on a Baghdad roof died when a mortar hit the building.
The dead reportedly included a couple and their four children, aged nine to 17, as well as a relative.
Many Iraqis choose to spend hot summer nights sleeping on the roof of their home because of frequent electricity failures.
The US and British military also confirmed new deaths.
One British soldier died and three others were injured in southern Iraq during a night of heavy fighting in Basra.
The US said nine of its troops have died in recent days, most in Baghdad and two in the western province of Anbar.
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Holy smokes...at this rate Iraq will have to ban all motor transport from the roads. The crudest weapons are often the most deadliest. Anyone have ideas on how to combat this terrorist tactic? I thought barriers were being built to protect residential areas as well as numerous road blocks in crowded areas.
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he was referring to your being a douche and hijacking the topic.
Do some of you idiots not see syrian kid blaming the iraq violence on the west and Israel (somehow responsible for everything) but never condeming the muslims who commit these attrocoties?
Do some of you idiots not see syrian kid blaming the iraq violence on the west and Israel (somehow responsible for everything) but never condeming the muslims who commit these attrocoties?
You're calling US idiots????? And what kind of condemnation do you want from Muslims???? He blames the Iraqi violence on many factors, the presence of the west, and the different sects fighting for control.
Not really. He despises Al Quada as much as any western heathen.
Actually that is not correct, see Hamas works closely with A.Q., and has for years, and it is widely known, and never been denied by Hamas or A.Q. leadership, Hamas even had a press conference this year stating that "Hamas and A.Q. have the same basic goals and ideals, and are now going to be working much closer together", SK does post a lot of pro-Hamas BULLSH*T.. when they work together how do you support one without supporting the other?, and if Hamas and A.Q. has the same basic ideals.. whats the difference? the name?
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I believe the Americans need to do one of two things to stop the violence.
1. Pull out.
OR
2. Send in more troops and destroy the insurgency and secure the nation, then set up their puppet. This would need to be a no BS type thing, a sweep of the country.
I think I read somewhere that there aren't enough troops to properly secure Iraq.
this incident just goes to show what kind of scum live in that part of the world. very sad..
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Iraq was better under Saddam, no doubt about this.
Not quite...
Shias were systematically being tortured and oppressed.
So just because the situation is bad at the moment, doesn't mean it was better under Saddam.
There are many ways to keep a country "quiet" and one way is through brutality and oppression.
The Shias in the south are gradually taking over their own cities and and it is exactly for this reason that Al-Qaeda continues to target shias, in order to create chaos and discontent.
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Not quite...
Shias were systematically being tortured and oppressed.
So just because the situation is bad at the moment, doesn't mean it was better under Saddam.
There are many ways to keep a country "quiet" and one way is through brutality and oppression.
The Shias in the south are gradually taking over over their own cities.
It is exactly for this reason that Al-Qaeda continues to target shias, in order to create chaos and discontent.
Well Persian, what I truly see happening is a Shia president that has to deal with a Sunni insurgencey after we leave.
On another note, it alway's cracks me up when I correct a co-worker when they say that Iranians are Arabs. I tell them that they're Persians, thanks to guys like you, and they look at me like I'm crazy.
Well Persian, what I truly see happening is a Shia president that has to deal with a Sunni insurgencey after we leave.
On another note, it alway's cracks me up when I correct a co-worker when they say that Iranians are Arabs. I tell them that they're Persians, thanks to guys like you, and they look at me like I'm crazy.
Thanks for correcting them.
Alot of people are ignorant about who were Persians and who are shias.
As for Iraq...
We could hope for true sunnis (not al-Qaeda) to realize the threat of extremism and stand up against them, for a better and more stable Iraq.
^ I do not know how they're doing this, but it's a good start
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"And He has made subservient to you whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth, all, from Himself; most surely there are signs in this for a people who reflect."
(The Holy Qur'an 45:13)
Not quite...
Shias were systematically being tortured and oppressed.
So just because the situation is bad at the moment, doesn't mean it was better under Saddam.
There are many ways to keep a country "quiet" and one way is through brutality and oppression.
The Shias in the south are gradually taking over their own cities and and it is exactly for this reason that Al-Qaeda continues to target shias, in order to create chaos and discontent.
Not quite...
Shias were systematically being tortured and oppressed.
So just because the situation is bad at the moment, doesn't mean it was better under Saddam.
There are many ways to keep a country "quiet" and one way is through brutality and oppression.
The Shias in the south are gradually taking over their own cities and and it is exactly for this reason that Al-Qaeda continues to target shias, in order to create chaos and discontent.
First of all, Shias weren't simply tortured for no reason, he didn't pick Shias off the streets and start randomly torturing them. He was harsh to them no doubt and opressed them but not on the scale that you believe.
Second, he opressed and was bad to Sunnis, IF there was reason to. I once heard how he tortured some of the players from the national soccer team for losing, I'm pretty sure they were Sunnis but I would need to double check.
BTW in Saddams Iraq, if you decided to evade the Army you would get yours ears cut in half, this applied to Sunni, Kurd, or Shia.
But all in all he was better than what is going on today. From what I can see.
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