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Is there really any hope of stabilizing Iraq? Is a thousand years of history too much to overcome?

Blasts Kill 125 at Iraq Shiite Shrines
Associated Press | 2 Mar 04 | TAREK AL-ISSAWI and HAMZA HENDAWI


KARBALA, Iraq (AP) - Simultaneous explosions ripped through crowds of worshippers Tuesday at Shiite Muslim shrines in Baghdad and the holy city of Karbala, killing at least 125. It was the bloodiest day since the end of major fighting.

The blasts in Iraq during the Shiite festival of Ashoura coincided with a shooting attack on Shiite worshippers in Quetta, Pakistan, that killed at least 29 people and wounded more than 150. The shootings touched off rioting in the city.

The blasts in Karbala killed 50 to 60 people, said Adel Abdel-Mahdi, a senior member of a Shiite political party represented on the U.S.-appointed Governing Council.

The nearly simultaneous bombings at Baghdad's Kazimiya shrine killed at least 75 people, he said. Hundreds were wounded in both cities.

The attacks sparked a wave of Shiite outrage - much of it directed at U.S. troops in the Iraqi capital. American soldiers who arrived at Kazimiya were attacked by angry crowds throwing stones and garbage, injuring two Americans.

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Here i was thinking today "gee haven't heard much Iraq news lately, I wonder if things are settling down".........

 

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Originally posted by N8
Is there really any hope of stabilizing Iraq? Is a thousand years of history too much to overcome?

a thousand years cannot stand up to the first few attoseconds of a nukyooler holocaust.

speaking of...

nice google bombing (mm=mf)