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30 Dead in Baghdad's Worst Attack in Months

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BAGHDAD -- Thirty people were killed Tuesday when a suicide bomber strode into a gathering of mourners at a home in eastern Baghdad and detonated an explosives-packed vest, the Interior Ministry said. It was the most brazen and deadly attack in the capital in months.

The force of the blast scattered severed arms and legs about the site of the attack, a house where scores of friends and relatives had gathered to pay tribute to a man killed three days earlier by a car bomb in Tayaran Square in central Baghdad.

One survivor ran in the street outside screaming and crying that five of her sons had been killed. Then she collapsed, said a car salesman who works nearby.
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2 responses // 30 Dead in Baghdad's Worst Attack in Months

  • http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/01/02/nytfront...
    It's disgusting to me that this story is buried at the very bottom of the front page with no picture.

    How is this war going to hit home if we don't show people burying heads that they couldn't find the body parts to.

    No dead soldiers coming home. No body parts. No blood. Sanitized. War isn't that bad, right?

    How was the hockey picture more important than the human head being buried? It wasn't, the New York Times just totes the party line whenever they can, so it would seem.
    covelogibbs
  • yes, we need more straight up evidence of the atrocities.Words do not say enough, tragicaly, to make an impact!
    cibalin

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