So the 400 dead Kurds in Iraq will now become undead?
And the hundreds injured become healed?
400 Dead In Iraq War's Worst Attack
PM Announces New Unity Government, But No Sunnis Aboard; New Blast
Hits Baghdad
(CBS/AP) The Interior Ministry said Thursday that at least 400 people
were killed in a string of suicide bombings targeting an ancient
religious sect in northwestern Iraq earlier this week.
Ministry spokesman Brig. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf said that 2 tons of
explosives were used in the blasts, which crumbled buildings, trapping
entire families beneath mud bricks and other wreckage as entire
neighborhoods were flattened near the Syrian border.
The victims were Yazidis, a small Kurdish-speaking sect that has been
targeted by Muslim extremists who consider its members to be
blasphemers.
Khalaf said 400 people were killed. Local officials earlier had given
estimated death tolls ranging from 250 to 500 as bodies were pulled
from the rubble and hundreds of wounded were taken to several
overwhelmed hospitals across the region.
As emergency crews and bewildered residents sifted through the rubble
of leveled clay houses in the northwest, a car bomb ripped through a
Baghdad market district during the morning rush hour, killing at least
nine people and wounding 17 more.
A police officer says the car was parked in a seven-story building on
top of a row of stores and touched off a huge fire. There's been no
claim of responsibility for the attack but it comes as U.S. commanders
warn of more insurgent attacks ahead of next month's report to
Congress on the progress on the war.
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