Nearly 400 killed in Iraq bloodletting

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http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2007/March/focusoniraq_March203.xml§ion=focusoniraq

BAGHDADP - Nearly 400 people have been killed in Iraq over the past three days, officials and medics said on Friday, as insurgents and sectarian militias defied a massive US security crackdown billed as a last chance to restore order to Baghdad.

A series of coordinated bombings of Shiite marketplaces in and north of the capital undercut a latest plea from embattled Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki for a joint effort to curb the bloodshed threatening to tear his country apart.

“The country is facing many challenges which need a consolidated front in which all Iraqis must participate,” Maliki said just hours before 125 people were killed in marketplace bombings in Baghdad and the Shiite town of Khalis.

Two suicide bombers tore through the market in the capital on Thursday that medics said killed 82 men, women and children as they shopped before the evening curfew and in preparation for Friday, the Muslim day of rest.

[FightingIrish]

1. Now that's a surge.

[SOS]

2. Sectarian violence surging to all-time highs

The Bush "security plan" is a complete failure.
Didn't see that one coming!

[orwell]

3. But...but...

...they don't count. They're just Iraquis. They're "collateral damage."

We only care about "the troops..."

Don't we?

[karlrschneider]

4. Unpossible! McCain sez it's all peachy keen over there.

:puke:

[orwell]

5. Maybe McCain...

...should run as the PM of Iraq... ;)

[spanone]

6. Meanwhile bush* keeps putting lipstick on HIS pig.

[malaise]

7. But, but, but

Bush says the surge is working!!! Guess he meant the surge to the grave.