46 Iraq Sunnis killed in revenge rampage (5 US troops killed Sat.)

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061015/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;_ylt=Ah1kFYD4JTDcGmDJxaBGme.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--

46 Iraq Sunnis killed in revenge rampage

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, Associated Press Writer 6 minutes ago

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Suspected Shiite militiamen killed at least 46 Sunni Arabs in a weekend rampage of revenge killing in a city north of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official said Sunday, raising the toll in the latest sectarian bloodletting there to 63.


A string of bombings in the northern city of Kirkuk killed 10 people, including two girls who died when a man detonated explosives strapped to his body in front of the al-Mallimin girls high school in downtown Kirkuk, police officials said.

The U.S. military reported the deaths of a Marine and four soldiers. The Marine was killed in combat in Anbar province, the Sunni heartland west of Baghdad on Saturday.

......A husband, wife and two of their sons were killed, and two daughters-in-law critically wounded Sunday morning when gunmen burst into their home in Mosul,
Iraq's third largest city 225 miles northwest of Baghdad. Police Col. Eid al-Jibouri said the identities of the attackers and their motive were unknown.

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1. looks like all these souls have found the peace bush rants about.

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2. KIRKUK, Iraq also ---coordinated bombs

Bombs kill 16 Iraqis, injure scores, including schoolgirls
POSTED: 11:18 a.m. EDT, October 15, 2006


KIRKUK, Iraq (CNN) -- Bombs killed at least 16 Iraqis Sunday in Baghdad and in the oil-rich northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.

In Kirkuk, six car bomb blasts -- four of them within a 30-minute period -- killed at least eight people and injured as many as 40, local police reported.

The first car bomb exploded at the entrance to a popular market around 10:30 a.m. local time. The second went off 10 minutes later in an area of the city that has several checkpoints and where Iraqi security forces patrol.(Watch what life is like inside the 'Triangle of Death' -- 2:32 Video)

The third blast came at around 10:50 a.m. outside a police building. That explosion was also close to an Islamic school for girls, police said, and some of the students were among the casualties.

The fourth car bomb exploded at about 11 a.m. outside a teachers' institute, police said.

The fifth and sixth explosions happened nearly simultaneously at about 2:25 p.m., one at the site of the second blast near the checkpoints and the other apparently targeting a car dealership.

The explosions all appeared to come from parked cars and not suicide car bombers, officials said.

Kirkuk, home to Arabs, Kurds and Turkmens, has been a cauldron of ethnic tension.

On September 17, a series of bombings killed at least 23 people in the city.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/10/15/iraq.main/index.html?section=cnn_topstories&eref=yahoo

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3. duplicate

already covered in these posts today

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2562990

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2562907

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2562909