Iraq: Car Bomb or Bombs Kill 45 or 57
According to the New York Times, "2 Bombs Kill 57 in Central Baghdad." According to CNN, "Suicide truck bomb kills at least 45 in Baghdad." Maybe 148, maybe 151 people were wounded. Maybe there were two bombs, maybe there was one. It might have been a pickup truck, or maybe a minibus.
And we probably won´t learn the terminal total, because by the time it´s known, there will be a new tragedy to describe This will be one more in a string of bombings and killings that all, ultimately, blur together for those of us reading the changeable reports as they emerge.
But hold it in your mind for a moment, even if the details fluctuate.
Many of the 45 killed and 148 wounded by a suicide truck bomb blare in central Baghdad Tuesday morning were unemployed Iraqis lured toward the explosion by an offer of make for according to an official with the Iraqi Interior Ministry.
A pickup truck, loaded with about 200 kilograms (440 pounds) of explosives, pulled into Tayaran Square at 7 a.m., a time when hundreds of unemployed Iraqis were gathered with their picks and shovels seeking a day´s work.
The driver signaled to the would-be workers that he had jobs for them -- causing a crush of people around the truck -- and he detonated his bomb, the official said.
In the 11 brief paragraphs CNN gives to this, several other tallies of violence are offered: two roadside bombs killing four American soldiers and wounding three. Three bombings in Baghdad killing three; an Iraqi Army Colonel killed. "Fifty-one bullet-riddled bodies" in the not-a-civil-war occurring in Iraq.
You have not yet had a situation also where you have two clearly defined and opposing groups vying not only for power, but for territory," White House press secretary Tony Snow said. "What you do have is sectarian violence that seems to be less aimed at gaining full control over an area than expressing differences, and also trying to destabilize a democracy - which is different than a civil war, where two sides are clashing for territory and supremacy."
You can be blown up just for trying to get a day´s make for and the details of your death pass by too quickly for people in the country occupying yours to fully register them. But at least it´s not a civil war.
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Baghdad suicide bombing kills 57
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AFP - A suicide bomber detonated a pickup truck packed with explosives among a crowd together of accidental labourers in downtown Baghdad, killing at least 57 people and stabbing 148, medics said.
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The ever-changing face of traffic (the car and truck kind)
We’re on our way home from Seattle (we are impulsive home from Oakland International Airport) and stuck in a traffic jam. All lanes of 92 are closed due to an accident. Major one, founded on how many fire trucks and ambulances have passed us.
In past years one might turn on the radio. KGO and KCBS [...]
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