TAL AFAR in Northern Iraq victimized by Car Bomb this morning (22 Dead)

[NOLADEM]

No link...Just saw it on NBC morning news local WWL.

In the Kurdish north.

This is bad. Attacking the Kurds could open up yet another front in this, cause our troops to spread ever-thinner, and eventually draw Turkey.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Sounds more like anarchy versus civil war. n/t

[AlabamaBrightBlueDot]

2. Is this what you are looking for?

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2006/11/24/ap3201478.html

Bombs Kill 22 After Deadly Day in Iraq
By 11.24.06, 7:18 AM ET

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The attack in Tal Afar, 260 miles northwest of Baghdad, involved explosives hidden in a parked car and in a suicide belt worn by a pedestrian that detonated simultaneously outside a car dealership at 11 a.m., said police Brig. Khalaf al-Jubouri. He said the casualties - 22 dead, 26 wounded - were expected to rise.

The blasts came as funeral processions were taking place in Sadr City, Baghdad's largest Shiite neighborhood, where the deadliest attack of the Iraq war had occurred Thursday. Hundreds of men, women and children beat their chests, chanted and cried as they walked beside vehicles carrying the caskets of their loved ones.


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[livetohike]

4. Welcome to DU Mhegwood3 !

:hi:

[AlabamaBrightBlueDot]

5. Thanks

I have been an avid lurker for quite some time. Thanks for the welcome.

[livetohike]

6. Glad you jumped in to start posting

DU has preserved my sanity for the past 2.5 years :-).

[xchrom]

3. the insurgents aren't going to leave the

kurdish north alone.

they may not be able to operate as else where -- but they will take the war there.

the insurgents have the ability that this tired worn out empire doesn't have -- the ability to change.