Title: BUSH HAS LOST THE WAR IN IRAQ BECAUSE HE IS NO WAR TIME PRESIDENT Source:
TRUTH URL Source:[None] Published:Jul 22, 2006 Author:TLBSHOW Post Date:2006-07-22 05:49:30 by TLBSHOW Keywords:None Views:2519 Comments:7
Seven Shiite workers were gunned down Saturday in a religiously mixed area of west Baghdad, and explosions in the heart of the capital shattered a one-day calm after a ban on private vehicles expired.
The United States was moving to bolster U.S. troop strength in Baghdad to cope with escalating violence between Sunnis and Shiites.
The seven Shiites died in a drive-by shooting at noon in the Furat neighborhood near Baghdad International Airport, police Lt. Maitham Abdul-Razzaq said. Two other workers were wounded.
Two large explosions in eastern Baghdad came about 20 minutes apart at midmorning. One targeted an Iraqi police patrol, but killed a civilian. The other occurred at the Rasheed military camp; there were no casualty reports.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Bombs exploded Sunday in Baghdad and the northern oil center of Kirkuk, killing more than 60 people and dramatically escalating tension as the prime minister left for Washington for talks on reversing the country's slide toward civil war.
The blasts occurred as Iraqi forces and the U.S.-led coalition mounted a major crackdown on the country's most feared Shiite militia, the Mahdi Army, blamed by Sunnis for many of the sectarian kidnappings and killings that threaten to tear the country apart.
