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The War
Profiteers - War Crimes, Kidnappings, Torture and Big Money |
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Iraq: Car Bomb Attack (V) Against Civilians in
Baghdad - January 22nd, 2007 |
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“Two powerful car bombs ripped through a market in central Baghdad on
Monday, turning an area crowded with shoppers and commuters into one of the
worst scenes of carnage since the war began. The bombs killed at least 88
people and wounded 160 others even as the first of some 21,000 extra American
troops ordered by President Bush began arriving in Baghdad, and as other
troops took up positions on SunniShiite fault lines as part of a new strategy
to secure the city. […] The blasts at the Baghdad market were in a Shiite
area and seemed to have been timed to inflict maximum damage, occurring at
noon, one of the busiest times of day. The explosions left so many bodies
that they had to be loaded one on top of another on wooden carts.” Excerpt of a New York Times article from January 23rd,
2007. |
Double car bomb attack at a market in Baghdad |
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The Video |
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External view: link file format: .wmv |
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The Aftermath |
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The market after the bombing |
The wounded … |
… and the dead. |
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Video & Photo Credits The Video 1) Part of the video might have been shot by a fixed security camera.
The origins remain unclear. Background & Aftermath 1) Seconds after the
two bombs exploded, smoke is rising above Baghdad. - January 22nd,
2007 - Ahmad Al-Rubaye/Agence France Press/Getty Images; 2) The Bab al-Sharqi
market after the explosion - January 22nd, 2007 - Mohamed
Ameed/Reuters; 3) A man is carrying
a wounded boy. - January 22nd, 2007 - Wissam Al-Okaili/Agence
France Press/Getty Images; 4) Iraqis are
searching for dead relatives. - January 22nd, 2007 - Wissam
Al-Okaili/Agence France Press/Getty Images; |
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