Informed Comment

Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion

Juan Cole is President of the Global Americana Institute

Sunday, August 06, 2006

Bombings in Baqubah, Ambush Near Kirkuk

Reuters details guerrilla violence on Saturday (and late Friday. An army checkpoint sprayed with fire, killing 5 soldiers, near Kirkuk. Three bombs in Baqubah wounded 10. 7 bodies found in Kut. 9 bodies found in Baghdad. Then there was fighting in Ramadi.

Morgue refrigerators made for 5 bodies are holding many more in Iraq today, says al-Hayat. Some hundred persons are being killed a day. The bodies are often hard to identify, and some families actually sniff at them to determine if it is their relative.

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