Tell me Bill when was the last time you recall someone driving a car
into a school and murdering 30 people?
OR INDEED DRIVING A CAR INTO ANY GROUP OF PEOPLE AND MURDERING SCORES?

Maybe this looks familiar. No guns were used by the attckers. NEARLY
200 DEAD. Again those that don't care for human life and want to kill
will always find a way. THEY DON'T CARE IF OWNING A GUN IS ILLEGAL.



I'd hate to be losing...


Car bombs kill nearly 200 in deadliest Iraq attacks


From correspondents in Iraq


April 19, 2007 08:39am
Article from: NEWS.com.au


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* 190 killed in attacks in Shiite districts
* 'Swimming pool of blood' at crowded market
* Iraqi PM blames extremist "vampires"


FOUR car bombs detonated in a co-ordinated attack have killed more
than 190 people in Baghdad in the deadliest attacks in the city since
US and Iraqi forces launched a security crackdown aimed at halting
the
country's slide into sectarian civil war.


One car bomb alone at a bustling market in the mainly Shiite Sadriya
neighbourhood killed 140 people and wounded 150, police have said.


"The street was transformed into a swimming pool of blood," said
Ahmed
Hameed, a shopkeeper near the scene.


Among the other attacks to have struck the capital, police have said
a
suicide car bomber killed 35 people and wounded more than 70 at a
checkpoint in Sadr City, stronghold of the firebrand cleric Moqtada
al-Sadr.


More were reported killed in two other attacks. All were apparently
timed to coincide with each other, hours after Shiite Prime Minister
Nouri al-Maliki said Iraq would take security control of the whole
country from foreign forces by the end of the year.


Mr Maliki blamed the attacks on infidels and Sunni extremist
"vampires" and said the Iraqi Army commander responsible for the area
had been detained and would be investigated over the "weakness" of
his
protection of civilians.


"This monstrous attack today did not distinguish between the old and
young, between men and women. It targeted the population in a way
that
reminds us of the massacres and genocide committed by the former
dictatorship," he said.


Mr Maliki is under growing pressure to say when US troops will leave,
but the attacks in mainly Shiite areas of Baghdad underscored the
huge
security challenges.


US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has said the US will not be shaken
from its mission of pacifying sectarian tensions in Iraq and would
push on with its new strategy to do so, in which 80,000 US and Iraqi
troops are patrolling Iraqi streets.


"We have anticipated from the very beginning... that the insurgency
and others would increase the violence to make the people of Iraq
believe the plan is a failure," he has said.


"We intend to persist to show that it is not."


Burned alive


"I saw dozens of dead bodies. Some people were burned alive inside
minibuses. Nobody could reach them after the explosion," said a
witness at Sadriya, describing scenes of mayhem at an intersection
where the bomb exploded.


"There were pieces of flesh all over the place. Women were screaming
and shouting for their loved ones who died," said the witness who did
not wish to be identified, adding many of the dead were women and
children.


Firefighters doused nearby cars and buses, as dozens of ambulances
and
pick-up trucks ferried wounded to hospital and volunteers wrapped
charred bodies in carpets for transport to the city's overflowing
mortuaries.


One man waving his arms in the air screamed hysterically: "Where's
Maliki? Let him come and see what is happening here."


"Where is the security plan? We are not protected by this plan," the
bereaved shouted.


US and Iraqi forces began deploying thousands more troops onto
Baghdad's streets in February.


US military spokesman Rear Admiral Mark Fox has admitted commanders
were frustrated at their inability to prevent such car bombings, but
insisted Iraq was not witnessing any further escalation of sectarian
violence.


Al-Qaeda is blamed for most of the major bombings targeting Shiites
in
Iraq and there are fears Sadr's Mehdi Army - which numbers in the
tens
of thousands - may take to the streets to retaliate.


"There is no magic solution to put out the fire of sectarian sedition
that some are trying to set up, especially al Qaeda," Mr Maliki said
in a speech made on his behalf before the attacks.


The Sadriya bombing was the highest death toll in a single attack in
Baghdad since a truck bomb killed 135 people in the same area on
February 3.


- Reuters and AFP


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