112 die in Iraq violence (905 US military combat dead to date)

[papau]

WWW.CNN.COM : 112 die in Iraq violence
At least 68 people were killed today in a suicide attack in Baquba, Iraq. Another 42 died in fighting in south-central Iraq. Also today, an Iraqi was killed in a blast near a Baghdad police station and an enemy combatant was killed in Ramadi. Speaking in Cairo, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell condemned the Baquba attack, calling it "an attempt by murderers to deny the Iraqi people their dream."


Meanwhile AP is saying yesterdays soldier's death raised the toll of U.S. military personnel killed in Iraq to 905 since the war began.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB9U9VL7XD.html

Suicide Bombing Outside Iraqi Police Station Kills 68
By Hadi Awad Associated Press Writer

BAQOUBA, Iraq (AP) - A suicide car bomb exploded on a busy downtown boulevard in Baqouba on Wednesday, reducing a bus full of passengers to a charred wreck, ripping through nearby shops and killing at least 68 Iraqis (wounded 56 others) in one of the deadliest single insurgent attacks since the U.S. invasion. <snip>

"These were all innocent Iraqis, there were no Americans," an angry man shouted as Iraqis tried to cover the dead with pieces of cardboard. <snip>

A raid by Iraqi forces backed by U.S. and Ukrainian troops sparked fighting in Suwariyah, southeast of Baghdad; 35 guerrillas and seven Iraqi policemen were killed. Ten Iraqi police were wounded and 40 insurgents were captured, said Polish Lt. Col. Artur Domanski, a multinational force spokesman.

In Ramadi, west of the capital, insurgents launched near simultaneous attacks on several U.S. bases, wounding 10 soldiers. A guerrilla was killed, and during the fighting a mortar hit an apartment building, killing an Iraqi woman. Later, gunmen in the city fired on two U.S. aircraft, damaging both and wounding a pilot, a military spokesman said without specifying the type of craft.

The blast in Baqouba, an insurgent hotbed 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, was the latest to cause heavy civilian casualties. Such deaths have angered many Iraqis even as guerrillas insist their fight is against U.S. troops and the new American-backed government. U.S. forces have been trying to lower their profile and put Iraqi security forces in the front lines. <snip>

[Qanisqineq]

1. make that 908

http://icasualties.org/oif/

[papau]

2. sigh .....

:-(

[Qanisqineq]

3. I know

I wasn't happy to add those 3 more to the total you quoted. But I don't want a single one of them to be forgotten. Nor do I want the numerous Iraqi civilians killed to be forgotten.